NOW THE END BEGINS - has listed 40 quotes by Barack Obama on Islam and Christianity. Here are the first 10 of each...just for the record:
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Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam and Mohammed #1 “The
future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam” #2 “The
sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer” #3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the
Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world —
including in my own country.” #4 “As a student of history, I also know
civilization’s debt to Islam.” #5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.” #6 “Islam has always been part of America” #7 “we will encourage more Americans to study in
Muslim communities” #8 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we
hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and
the dignity of all human beings.” #9 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not
be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of
justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” #10 “I made clear that America is not – and never will
be – at war with Islam.”
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity and the Bible #1 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a
Christian nation...” #2 “We
do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” #3 “Which
passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with
Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an
abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your
child if he strays from the faith?” #4 “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make
distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten
Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian
faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to
accommodate modern life.” #5 “The American people intuitively understand this,
which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those
opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment
to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their
flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.” #6 From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not
willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers
equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health
insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor
am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in
Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.” #7 Obama’s response when asked what his definition of
sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values.” #8 “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe
Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it,
people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.” #9 “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious
debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about
any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to
evangelize and prostelytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters,
that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re
going to hell.” #10 “I find it hard to believe that my God would
consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine that my God
would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the
Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s just not part of
my religious makeup.”
See all the rest including:#20“I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”