Obama Says Teachings of Jesus Christ 'Spoke to Me,' then Defends Abortion

[John81]

Wednesday September 29, 2010
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OBama Says Teachings of Jesus Christ 'Spoke to Me,' then Defends Abortion



By Kathleen Gilbert

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following reports of widespread skepticism over his professed Christianity, President OBama on Tuesday invoked the teachings of Jesus Christ as the inspiration for his public agenda, which he called part of an "effort to express my Christian faith" - and in his next breath defended the legalized killing of unborn children.

When a teacher's assistant asked him why he was a Christian during a townhall Q&A in Albuquerque, the president answered, “I’m a Christian by choice.”

The president admitted that his parents “weren’t folks who went to church every week" and that his mother "didn’t raise me in the church.” "I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead - being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me," he said.

OBama continued: "And I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we’re sinful and we’re flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God. But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace.

“That’s what I strive to do. That’s what I pray to do every day. I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith," he said.

But the president then jumped to defend the legal killing of unborn children when the same woman asked about regulating the procedure.

"Now, with respect to the abortion issue, I actually think - I mean, there are laws both federal, state and constitutional that are in place," he said. "And I think that this is an area where I think Bill Clinton had the right formulation a couple of decades ago, which is abortion should be safe, legal, and rare."

OBama exhorted the audience to "recognize" killing unborn children as "a difficult, oftentimes tragic situation that families are wrestling with." "I think the families and the women involved are the ones who should make the decisions, not the government," he said, adding: "I do think actually that there are a whole host of laws on the books that after a certain period, the interests shift such that you can have some restrictions, for example, on late-term abortions, and appropriately so."

As an Illinois and U.S. senator, OBama never once voted in favor of an abortion restriction, supporting even the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure and voting against a state law to protect infants born alive during an abortion.

Since ascending to the White House, he has solidified his 100% pro-abortion record by pursuing greater funding for abortion groups both overseas and at home. In crafting the federal health care reform, OBama's administration worked closely with abortion giant Planned Parenthood, whom he promised in 2007 that reproductive health would be "at the center, the heart" of his health care plans.

OBama's devotion to abortion is not the only aspect of a public agenda in plain conflict with the Christian worldview.

OBama has taken an increasingly aggressive stance against Christian values on marriage and the family by courting the homosexualist lOBby, and has pushed for an end to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the repeal of the U.S. military's ban on open homosexuality, and gay adoption. OBama also successfully championed the inclusion of "sexual orientation" as a federally protected trait alongside race and religion in federal "hate crimes" legislation.

A survey by the Pew Research Center in August found that nearly one in five Americans believe OBama is a Muslim, and only one in three believe he is an adherent of the faith he claims; 43 percent said they were unsure. The White House shot back at the polls, claiming that right-wing "misinformation campaigns" had produced the results.

Yet skeptics likely remained unmoved when, after the Pew results were collected, OBama vouched for a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City. The president announced his support at a White House dinner celebrating the Muslim fast of Ramadan.

Christian leaders have expressed frustration at OBama's claim to Christianity despite failing to attend church services regularly since winning the 2008 presidential election, including Christmas Day 2008 and 2009

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10092907.html

[chev1958]

He's a religionist who only invokes his religion when it's politically expedient.

[heartstrings]

Any person can SAY "Im a Christian". His mouth says one thing, but is spirit says something else entirely. He seems to confess Christ, but his works deny Christ. It is the spirit of anti-christ.


1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

[HappyChristian]

He's a religionist who only invokes his religion when it's politically expedient.

Ayup! He's hurting politically, and his "popularity" is hurting other Dems, so he's trying to shore up. He's a humanist through and through. Numero Uno to him is BHO.

[asysin2leads]

He's a religionist who only invokes his religion when it's politically expedient.

Amen! I love the bumper stickers that say, "You can't be Christian and Pro-Choice."

[John81]

Amen! I love the bumper stickers that say, "You can't be Christian and Pro-Choice."

One thing I hear several pastors saying is that many of their members are Dems and many are Repubs and there is nothing wrong with that. How can a Bible believing Christian be yoked to the Dem Party??? They have totally sold themselves out to wickedness, pushing for the murder of more and more unborn babies, supporting homosexual "marriage", working to rid all public expressions of biblical Christianity from the public square, etc.

[JerryNumbers]

He's a religionist who only invokes his religion when it's politically expedient.

Mitch, Is that not true for most politician's?

[chev1958]

Mitch, Is that not true for most politician's?

Could be ...

[John81]

Most politicians are OBviously not born again Christians. If and when they choose to bring up their "faith", it's in attempt to seek votes or cover themselves so as not to lose votes. Consider how many politicians make statements like "I'm personally against abortion but I'm not going to stand against it".