You are about to read some of the most shocking quotes that
Barack
Obama has ever uttered in public. A few of these have been widely
circulated, but most of them are very obscure. Even though he claims to
be a
Christian,
throughout his political career
Obama has repeatedly attacked
traditional Biblical Christianity and he has a
very long history of
anti-Christian actions. In public speeches he has repeatedly cast doubt
on the
Bible, he
has repeatedly stated that he does not believe that Jesus is necessary for
salvation, and he has consistently said that he believes that all “people of
faith” believe in the same God. At the same time, Obama has always
referred to Muhammed as “the Prophet”, he has always expressed great love and
respect for
Islam,
and he has even
removed all references
to Islam from terror training materials used by
federal government agencies. So what in
the world does “the leader of the free world” actually believe? Read the
quotes below and decide for yourself…
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam
#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.”
#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.”
#11 “Islam is not part of the
problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting
peace.”
#12 “So I have known
Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first
revealed”
#13 “In ancient times and in our
times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and
education.”
#14 “throughout history, Islam
has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious
tolerance and racial equality.”
#15 “
Ramadan is a
celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”
#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O
mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into
nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”
#17 “I look forward to
hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the
White
House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
#18 “We’ve seen those results in
generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay
the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some
of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”
#19 “That experience guides my
conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what
Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as
president of the United States to
fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
#20 “I also know that Islam has
always been a part of America’s story.”
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity
#1 “Whatever we once were,
we are no longer a Christian nation”
“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.”
#11 “I don’t presume to have
knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether
the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to
my faith and my values is a good thing.”
#12 “I’ve said this before, and I
know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe
that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I
do not believe she went to hell.”
#13 “Those opposed to
abortion
cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some
principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”
#14 On his support for
civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial then I
would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”
#15 “You got into these small
towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs
have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell
through the Clinton Administration, and the
Bush Administration,
and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are
gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get
bitter, they cling to
guns
or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
#16 “In our household, the Bible,
the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and
Norse and African mythology”
#17 “On Easter or
Christmas
Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist
temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient
Hawaiian burial sites.”
#18 “we have Jews,
Muslims, Hindus,
atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have
to revere and respect as much as our own”
#19 “All of us have a
responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and
Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of
the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when
Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and
a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in
the story of Isra — (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus,
and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)”
#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.”