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Dear Patriotic Global Citizens:
Re: What will Jesus the Christ - the Lion of Judah (Rev 5;5) say if he returned to earth and watched the Globe?
Imagine, Jesus the Christ coming back to earth and visiting the Hindu or Budha Temples of 3 Billion adherents or 3 Billion Abrahamic Covenant Adherents who now call themselves Jews, Christians and Muslims with all their variations from conservative to liberal from fundamentalists to situation ethics proponents, and the rest One Billion Human-Divine adherents?
Will Jesus recognize all these religious goons? I just wonder? Just imagine, one group defining who is this or that in today's world.
Who gets the scrutiny, the President of the United States, Barack Husseine Obama. Let us go through all the leaders of the world and define their faith and then lable them this or that. Just imagine how funny it is going to get.
So have fun, reading the Obama Anointment
with regards
Dr BMJ
Aug 20, 2010
Who, exactly, is a 'Christian'? Obama? You?
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Who, exactly, is "Christian"? Or Christian enough? Or the right variation of Christian -- i.e. probably the one you are or you like.
With all the hoohah over the 18% of folks who told a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey that President Obama is Muslim and 34% who said Obama is Christian, the 43% who are unsure what he believes have gotten less attention.
An interesting discussion of that point comes from Michael O'Loughlin, blogging at America magazine's In All Things. He writes:
There are still pockets of Evangelicals who don't consider Roman Catholics to be Christian; I remember being asked once if I was a Christian, to which I replied yes, only to have my interlocutor correct me. I was in fact Catholic, not Christian. There are also some Catholics who don't believe that some mainline Protestants to be fully Christian (our own Church refuses to call Protestant churches what they are: churches). So even within our own Christian family, there is not a consensus as to who is actually Christian and who is not.
Since most Americans do call themselves Christian and most Americans don't attend church any more often than Obama (who likes the chapel at Camp David), and many disconnect their beliefs (all good people go to heaven) from their denomination's doctrines (which define that "good" very distinctly) -- just exactly who is Christian remains a question.
As I reported on an earlier Pew survey about Americans' beliefs:
U.S. adults believe overwhelmingly (92%) in God, and 58% say they pray at least once a day. But the study's authors say there's a "stunning" lack of alignment between people's beliefs or practices and their professed faiths.
One of the largest and longest standing debates at the Faith & Reason Forum is over whether Mormons are Christian. There are conservative evangelicals who see Catholicism as a cult, or confuse the failures of the humans who run the Catholic Church with its spiritual teachings. And there are Jews for Jesus that drive Jewish Jews frantic, pointing out that the core of being "Christian" is that your faith is centered on Christ.
In short, not only do many people not know Obama's religion, they may not know their neighbor's -- or their own.
Is Obama a Christian like you are? Like who is? (Remember our civility guidelines here: All views, respectfully presented, are welcome.)
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