Finding His Faith

I don't trust Barack Obama to tell the truth about his religious beliefs or anything else since I believe as his former pastor, Rev. Wright, said...Obama is a politician and he says what he has to say to get elected. Also his ego is just too over the top to suit me. He keeps going around saying when I'm president I'll do such and such. We don't know what he will do IF he becomes president since he has flip-flopped so many times. IF you have doubts about a candidate's character and whether you can trust them or not you would be wise not to vote for that candidate even if they are your party's presumptive nominee. I wish someone would start a Write In Campaign for Hillary Clinton. She is a person I would trust to do the right thing for our country. I simply do not trust Barack Obama.

I am a southern white christian male from east Tennessee. Most in my area still seem to feel Sen. Obama is a Muslim but this is because they desire to have an excuse not to vote for him. I work in our local church food pantry where seven years ago we had fourteen families coming into the pantry every month, today we have near nine hundred. This is difficult, because we get very little support but god provides for these people. I do not support abortion but this election I am looking at other issues. President Bush came into office controlling all three branches of goverment and A majority on the supreme court. Abortion was not on the table until this election came up, This upsets me. He had almost supreme power in 2003 when it was almost a crime to disagree with him but he did not stop abortion. Electing John McCain will not end Abortion nor will electing Obama, only god can end this crime. I can't control this and I will not wast my vote. 1 John 3:17 says " I f anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of god be in him?" McCain is a wasted vote, Obama is a christian, because he says he is and only god can judge the heart. Obama I feel will do better to help this economy and in turn help these poor souls coming into our food pantry. I am going to vote for Obama and a great deal of the people I work with tell me the same. If you desire to reply with propaganda from the right, you may do so but I want read it and It want change my vote. You are welcome to serve some of the poor in your community.

First of all I am black and my roots go back (4) generations in America. I am still dumbfounded that how excited everyone is with the potential (probabal) election of the first "Black" President. This gentleman has no Black roots in America and admits he went to Rev Wright and his church to learn about Black America. I have a problem with this man using the "black" card and now via this article he is biracial. Rev Wright was his "father figure" for 20 years and now Obama is basically calling him a freak. He has Muslim background (So what) - but let's deny it because it doesn't look good. Noone else has a problem with things being omitted or changed constantly with this guy? I believe in integrity and honesty. I am democrat and I don't want to vote with this guy. I read this article and keep reading things hoping that all of a sudden I find a worthiness in this man and it seems to be getting worst.

Hi Personcrz - you seem pretty informed. So maybe you could answer me this:

McCain who abandoned his disabled wife and 3 kids to start up an affair with a much younger, richer beer heiress...and has been a kept man ever since -- pushed through deals that benefited telecoms in Arizona...so they could monopolize the market.

Why would an upstanding man...who then abandoned his second wife in her time of need...having her to learn to walk on her own after suffering a stroke - not help the little guy...the smaller entrepreneur. It's harder for us to compete with the Wall Marts of the world. They come in buy us small mom and pops out - with their lower prices - then jack up the prices when we're gone.

Why would an upstanding man swap up for the richer corporations and leave us behind - without jobs, houses or pensions? Maybe because he's looking out for himself -

Hey Newsweek....let me remind you that you aren't an official part of the Obama campaign. You are suppose to be an unbiased newsweekly right? How about asking and trying to answer a few very simple questions? How does someone with such spiritual leaning...such searching and yearning for spiritual truth end up in listening to hate in Rev Wright's church for 20 years? How does someone so thoughful and spiritual out his own Grandmother as a racist to a national audience to defend someone like Rev Wright? How does someone with such a spiritual side to him end up in such close relationships with convicted felons and unrepentant terrorists? How does someone with such deep and abiding faith treat Hillary Clinton the way his campaign treated her in the primaries, or label someone like Geraldine Ferraro a racist? Is Obama a spiritual man of faith, or is he a cold hard calculating politician focused on winning at all costs. My bet is on the cold hard calculating politician as that would explain all the questions I posed. But I guess we'll all have to come to our own conclusions without any help from Newsweek as Newsweek provided us another Obamamania fluff piece! What a useless waste of magazine space!

Those who have come to this site to rehash the exhausted topic of Hillary and the convention need to stop wasting space here. If they have something to say about the topic of Obama'a faith great, other wise save it.

If BO isn't a muslim, he certainly isn't a Christian either. Any true born again Christian would know that their is only ONE way to Heaven and to the Father God and that is thru Jesus Christ the son of God. Jesus said, "I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by me". It has been said on the news that he believes that there are many ways to Heaven. It sounds to me like he is more New Age than he is Christian, because the New Age religion believes that there are many ways to heaven.

Also anybody that claims to be a Christian would NOT be for partial birth abortion on demand either. That goes against God Himself because that is destroying God's creation. We are made in the image of God. We all know, in this day and age that life begins at conception. Babies inuttero are not just blobs of tissue. They can be viable in the second trimester. Partial birth abortion is killing a baby being partially born. That is out and out murder! And he thinks that a baby is punishment and he wouldn't want to punish his daughter with a baby. Babies ARE NOT PUNISHMENTS Mr. Obama! They are GIFTS from God. They may be consequences, but not punishments.

Oh Hope - I didn't see your comment. I was actually asking about Christian actions. You know - instead of talking about passages in the bible. Christ was all about action.

You know like McCain's actions -- how he abandoned his disabled wife for a much younger, richer beer heiress and then abandoning her when she has a stroke - to learn to walk on her own.

I know it's bothersome. It bothers me too!

Obama didn't "find his faith." He found a tool to promote his political career, and when Jeremiah Wright made Obama's "faith" inconvenient, he threw it away.

Seriously you people all need to get a grip!
If the guy says he's a christian he's a christian. To borrow some of your own rhetoric, "God will be the judge!"
Not you, not Karl Rove, not John Hagee, not James Dobson....

As I stated earlier, the whole religious right has been getting played by the Republicans for years. They had the power at plenty of points during the Reagan or the Bush admin to pass legislation banning gay marriages, ending abortion, putting prayer in the schools, requiring everyone to attend mass on Sundays, etc....

They have done none of these things but they get your continued support. I don't understand it! Your all a bunch of pawns enabling the corporatocracy and war mongering policies of the Republican party. I'm sure you have all read your bibles as I have, and there is no doubt in my mind that Jesus was not on these people's side...

By the way, Ive followed this campaign religiously (not a pun) and still couldnt tell you exactly what sect of Chistianity that McCain or Hillary are a part of it? We've dissected more than one of Obama's pastors, weve seen the church he attends, we've debated it ad nauseum, when is enough going to be enough?

Hussein is a muslim. No two ways about it. The majority of Americans believe it to be true. The minority who take Hussein at his word can continue to live in ignorance.

Hi Military Wife -- you know I've been asking this question for a couple of days now. I have not received one - not one satisfactory answer. Maybe you could help me -- since you seem to be an expert on Christianity.

On what Christian path was McCain taking when he abandoned his disabled wife and 3 kids for a younger, richer beer heiress...and then abandoned her after she had a stroke - to learn to walk on her own.

BTW -- it is a pattern he has not broken. He abandoned his values when he got into bed with the big corporations who do not care about us: Haliburton, KBR, BLACKWATER, BIG OIL -- are not interested in America anymore. They are international now - they want cheap labor and go overseas for it. They move their headquarters overseas - so they don't pay taxes back to us -- you know - the taxes we've been paying into their war machine.

McCain fully intends to keep Iraq going -- it's not good business for his corporate bedfellows if we pull out. How Christian is that?