By Nicholas Stix
L.A. Times columnist James Rainey has two explanations for why millions of Republicans doubt that the John Doe calling himself Barack Obama is a Christian: Madness or defiance.
The one explanation Rainey refuses to entertain is that they are following the facts.
“Obama” was born the son of a Moslem. According to Mohammedan law, if your father was a Moslem, you’re a Moslem.
For a number of years as a young lad in Indonesia, Obama was raised as a Moslem. He prayed to the moon God, and was taught Mohammedan precepts. When his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, adopted the young Barry, he wrote on the boy’s Indonesian birth certificate that his religion was “Muslim.” “Obama” has even stated that the sound of the muezzin calling terrorists, er, Moslems, to prayer is “the prettiest sound on earth.”
His late mother was apparently an atheist.
During “Obama’s” 2004 presidential, er, senatorial campaign, he said he had “a personal relationship to Jesus Christ.” (I get confused because, while he was officially running for the U.S. Senate, he was surreptitiously already running for president. Prior to Election Day 2004, he already had his organization on the ground in Iowa, the first caucus state, as Jonathan Kaufman would later report in the Wall Street Journal (April 21, 2008, no longer online.))
He lied.
How can I possibly know that? Because “Obama” is a devotee of Black Liberation Theology, which is not a Christian belief.
BLT—not to be confused with the noble bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich—is a genocidal, black supremacist cult, which demands that God serve blacks in their jihad to annihilate all whites. Now that I think about it, BLT’s character comes more from the murder cult the Nation of Islam than it does from Christianity.
BLT was concocted by racist affirmative action professor James Cone out of Marxism, the Nation of Islam, and general black genocidal feelings toward whites, and given some Christian trappings.
Cone has written,
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community
… Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”
Beyond the above, had “Obama” really been a Christian, he would have found himself a Washington, D.C. church back in 2004, between (illegally) winning the election, and being sworn in as a U.S. Senator. Not only did he not do that, he didn’t even bother finding a church after (illegally) winning the 2008 presidential election, either. Not until six months after his inauguration, did “Obama” find a local Christian church. By then, the charade was so obvious that he needn’t have bothered.
(Why “illegally”? Because one may not file to run for election under a false name. Unless he has legally changed his name to “Barack Hussein Obama II,” the legal name of the John Doe calling himself by the former name is either Barack Hussein Dunham, or Barry Soetoro. His parents’ marriage was invalid, due to his father’s bigamy, and Dunham was his mother’s maiden name. “Barry Soetoro” was the legal name his Indonesian stepfather gave him.)
Ultimately, the question isn’t why anyone would doubt that “Obama” is a Christian, but why anyone would believe he was one.
Obama losing a majority ... who think he's a Christian
By James Rainey
July 27, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
Los Angeles Times
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President Obama is struggling to get to 50% — not just of voters in November -- but of Americans, at any time, who will recognize that he is a Christian.
The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life released a survey Thursday showing that just 49% of Americans described the president as a Christian, while 17% said they believed he was Muslim. Just before the 2008 election, a majority, 55%, described then-candidate Obama’s faith as Christian, while just 12% said he was Muslim.
The lingering questions about Obama’s faith likely come from people of two mind-sets. One is those who have an intense dislike of the president and find confirmation of all their fears in a fever swamp of conspiracy websites. Where a birth certificate is not accepted as proof of someone's place of birth, forget about verifying something as intangible as a statement of faith.
The second factor driving up Obama's "Muslim number" is doubtless the urge of some respondents to stick it in the pollsters' ear -- to commit a small act of defiance by giving an answer the voter knows is untrue. When the interloper in the Oval Office is deeply loathed, why credit him with anything, least that he is a Christian? Willful ignorance becomes a political act.
The result: While Pew found in October 2008 that 16% of Republicans (and the same percentage of conservative Republicans) called Obama a Muslim, the most recent survey found 30% of Republicans and 34% of conservative Republicans said it was so. Anyone I say is Muslim, is Muslim, got it, pointy-headed (and probably liberal) pollster? Having conjured something like Mullah Barack, is it any wonder that 65% of this group is then "uncomfortable" with Obama as a Muslim?
Republican challenger Mitt Romney has much less of a religion identity problem with voters. Fully 60% of those surveyed understood that the former Massachusetts governor was a Mormon and most of the rest, 32%, didn't know his faith. Of those who knew he was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a large majority either was comfortable (60%) with that notion or didn’t know, or care, about it (21%.)
The long-discussed issue among some political analysts -- that evangelical Christians would not back Romney -- appears mostly unrealized, according to the Pew survey. Doubts among evangelicals do not lead to a major decline of support , but they do create an enthusiasm gap. The Pew pollsters concluded: “Among Republican and Republican-leaning voters who say they are comfortable with Romney being Mormon, 44% back him strongly. Among those who are uncomfortable with it, just 21% say they back him strongly.”
Neither Obama nor Romney has made religion a major component of a campaign yoked relentlessly to jobs and the economy. It’s unclear, in any event, that a lot of religious talk would change the views of each man’s most ardent detractors. Romney’s Mormon faith will never be Christian enough for the few. Obama could be baptized in front of his most extreme naysayers and they would just find the holy water impure.
james.rainey@latimes.com
Twitter: @latimesrainey
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