Tuesday November 11, 2008
The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama’s faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for U.S. Senate in Illinois. The column she wrote about the interview has been quoted and misquoted many times over, but she’d never before published [...]
Barack Obama has said, many times and in no uncertain terms, “I am a Christian.” He has been on the cover of Sojourner’d magazine, a Christian publication. His former pastor, The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was in the spotlight for some unseemly comments about patriotism (among other things), but Reverend Wright was clearly a Christian preacher. [...]
Ohmydidhesayjihad? Take a close look at what right wing religious fundamentalism produces. Deny the Holocaust? How about denying Evolution.? Ponder the real cause of the September 11, 2001, attacks on America? Ponder the real cause of Global Warming? Fundamentalism has become a joke to the thinking people of the 21st Century. Omydidhesayjihad is no joke! [...]
By Sally Quinn.
It is my belief that John McCain disqualified himself from being an effective leader of this country about a year ago when he was asked if he would vote for a Muslim candidate for president.
McCain’s reply: “I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian [...]
Polar opposites. Fear and Faith. These concepts do not live together, they are never under the same roof. When the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Mormons and the Catholics and the Baptists come knocking at my door I am not afraid. But they are. Fear is always obvious in their message.
The tactics employed by the religulous [...]
American values are crossing swords in the 2008 Election for President of the United States. Conflicting values are not unusual. Actually, conflicting values come our way every day. Such is the nature of ethics. One such conflict is apparent in the redemption of former Weatherman Bill Ayers. The social turmoil of the 1960’s continues to [...]
