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  • Posted By: B-Crajee @ 07/14/2008 11:54:10 AM

    This statement is absurd! Lisa Miller and Richard Wolffe; your statement is truley off the wall. How can you try and convince me he has strong chiristian beliefs? How can you fabricate & influence our citizens to believe your lies? This is a completely partical statement to attract votes. It is blatantly obvious he does not have chistian views & will not uphold our continuation; no pledge of allegiance, no oath, no american flag pin..ect.

    It is

  • Posted By: SJMB @ 07/14/2008 11:52:42 AM

    It is true that all have eternal life--the soul never dies. The question is where will a person live in their eternal life... If a Christian's definition of heaven is eterniy in heaven with Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, sitting at God's right hand, and all are praising them and only them, then why would other religions want our heaven. It doesn't fit their beliefs. to a Christian, all other paths lead to hell--forever being cut off from God and Christ. Islam, Hinduism, Budhism---all lead to our definition of hell--Christ as God's only beloved son will not be there. so where does "inclusiveness" come from? The lack of understanding of Christian heaven and hell. Don't be offended by my definition of hell--you don't want my heaven, anyway, or you would be a christian.

  • Posted By: ay caramba @ 07/14/2008 11:41:12 AM

    I do not care what a candidate's religious faith is, period. It is personal. I think the introduction of religion into presidential politics by the right wing religious fanatics has kept us away from their political positions, which are what really matter.

    • Posted By: emmarcee @ 07/14/2008 11:50:43 AM

      when did Newsweek become a rightwing magazine? O.. EVERYTHING IS YOUR FAULT!!!

  • Posted By: sav3367 @ 07/14/2008 11:49:43 AM

    McCain and Obama are both bad for our country. We need a president who is 110% CHRISTIAN.

  • Posted By: MaddiesFace @ 07/14/2008 11:43:19 AM

    Mr. Obama has his faith and our John McCain has his faith. Both, as a matter of politics will use faith as a "selling point". The hurt in the words from what looks like most of the bloggers is almost staggering. To even believe that men of such accomplishment would allow their faiths to impede their personal and political goals is uninformed enough, but to try the debacle of Mr. McCain for his age, and to attempt to alienate Mr. Obama with certain untruths make every single one of you less than faithful in God's eyes and those who would one day want to trust you. Too me, it's just disgusting.

  • Posted By: mj it @ 07/14/2008 11:35:34 AM

    Hi golden girl - you seem to know what it is to be a Christian. Could you tell me how Christian it was for McCain to abandon his disabled wife and 3 kids for a much younger, richer beer heiress, who he started an affair with the night he met her? And he's been a kept man ever since.

    And did you know that when his second wife was addicted to drugs - he didn't know it...and wasn't around to help her learn to walk again after she had a stroke? Could you enlighten me - as to how Christian that is? And would you want to be in the care of this man?

    Personally, as an American, I would like to have a president who cares about Americans - who is not beholden to the richer, more powerful international corporations (HALIBURTON, KBR, BLACKWATER, BIG OIL, TELECOMS) who do not care about America anymore. They want to run the world - and they found their man: McCain - because they know how to get and keep him in office -- after all he's used to being a kept man.

    • Posted By: jetnd87 @ 07/14/2008 11:41:38 AM

      Hi mj it-

      every comment of yours on this site, whichever article, says the exact same thing in almost the exact same order. I agree with you that what McCain did seems to be pretty bad. But honestly, show me a politician that has had a moral/normal family life, and then please back that up. Getting orally serviced and lying about it on national television is pretty bad too. However, neither are as scary for the American public as a Presidential nominee with a strong history of attending a hate church

  • Posted By: Raleigh70 @ 07/14/2008 11:31:30 AM

    mj it posted that McCain does not attend church?? With a simple search I found:

    "John McCain's Religious Background: What Does John McCain Believe and Why?
    John McCain had a devout Episcopal upbringing: he was raised in the Episcopal church, his great-grandfather was an Episcopal minister, and he graduated from an Episcopal high school. Today, however, he attends the North Phoenix Baptist Church which is part of the Southern Baptist Convention. In 2007 he described himself as Baptist rather than Episcopalian and emphasized how important being a Christian is to him. In his book Character is Destiny he says that his religious faith helped him survive his years as a POW. McCain's church's theology is that Jesus chose to die on the cross as a sacrifice to pay a penalty the rest of us owed God, even though Jesus himself led a sinless life. " Like it matters anyway?? Geez...just goes to show you who is really doing the smearing. I did not make up all of Obama's questionable associates. Obama sure has a knack for picking the most controversial figures out there as his friends and spiritual advisors. But like Obama himself says...he doesn't find them particularly controversial....

  • Posted By: yesyoucan2008 @ 07/14/2008 10:44:11 AM

    Whats ambiguous about his birthplace, his schooling, and his path to Christianity? Obama has clearly professed his faith in Jesus Christ. Are you naive in thinking just because you are probably brought upon on tradition, that it is somehow better than exploring and learning about other faiths. If racial hatred, religous fanatics and fear mongers deter his chances at being President, then you all deserve the continuation of a degenerating society we know as the USA. GOD Bless Obama, GOD Bless change and GOD bless a renewed America!!!

    • Posted By: sunshineannmarie @ 07/14/2008 11:28:01 AM

      Yes You Can, excellent comments. Lets move forward towards a world that God wants for mankind

    • Posted By: jetnd87 @ 07/14/2008 10:56:15 AM

      Other faiths being militant Islam in Kenya and black panther-esque rants in Rev Wright? I'd rather vote for a president who's family is heavily involved with the IRA and has attended the Church of scientology for two decades. Actually do you think it'll be possible to elect the members of that Texas polygamist church?

      I have 2 problems with the issue of Obama and his faith:

      1) Doesn't shopping around for the coolest faith of the moment/ the one that will offend the less poeple and get u elected negate the whole essence of faith?

      2) By ambiguity, I was referring to Obama's phobia of speaking about Islam, esp considering his name, heritage, etc. But more troubling is his sudden dumping of rev wright (smart move) and unwavering declaration that he holds completely different views. Again I ask, how is that even remotely possible. How can millions of Americans swallow that without asking more pointed questions? It seems as though some of us are content with not knowing the true beliefs of our possible President, esp when those believes have a violent slant.

  • Posted By: mj it @ 07/14/2008 11:24:37 AM

    On McCain who does not attend church: I believe that a man who leaves his disabled wife and 3 kids for a much younger, richer beer heiress...being a kept man ever since -- will do to us - what he did to her. He left his values behind when he took up with his much richer corporate buddies: Haliburton, KBR, BIG OIL, BIG TE;ECOMS -- will do everything in their power to put and keep him in office...he is used to being a kept man -- and he will abandon us - like Bush abandoned the victims of Katrina.

    If you liike a man who abandons his family in time of need -- then McCain is your man. Money and power is his God - and we all will be the victims.

  • Posted By: littman @ 07/14/2008 11:23:37 AM

    kierkegaard is the father of existentialism, not nietzsche

  • Posted By: ericmiami @ 07/14/2008 11:18:52 AM

    Great article, thanks! I doubt if four pages could be written on any aspect of McCain.

    • Posted By: emmarcee @ 07/14/2008 11:23:33 AM

      I can write 8 pages about you if I go through your life history. Naive!! and you think Old Mccain does not have any history!! Typical Obamabot!

  • Posted By: golden girl @ 07/14/2008 11:20:14 AM

    I find all this talk, as Obama, has put it, "Just Words". I'm tired of hearing him trying to convince me an American that he is Christian. I have never been in a Christian church that gives sermons full of hatred for others, racism, and hatred of America (especially after our AMERICAN gov. has given Trinity Church $15 Million dollars over the past few years.) I though Religion and State were to be separate, yet there has been too much talk about Obama's religion, than what he plans to do about America's problems. I think the piece on the cover of "The New Yorker" fits my impression of Obama, and he will not be able to change that. Obama's religious views are not Christian at all, his religious upbringing(Trinity church) is not Chrisitan at all, not matter how many times he trys to explain it, I saw the video's, this cry for "We need change" is not the kind of change I want, nor the kind most Americans want. Campaigning on college campuses may have gotten him a lot of votes, but we all know how the US rands world-wide in education, so that just goes to show the type of voters he is going after. Those who still even with college degrees can not evaluate a situation based on facts, and are still not repsonsible enough, to make intelligent decisions.

  • Posted By: just-another-sweetie @ 07/14/2008 12:45:25 AM

    He said he would go days without speaking to another person.How is someone like that going to be president?Although that might be better for him to keep your month shut.

    • Posted By: sunshineannmarie @ 07/14/2008 11:18:12 AM

      That was in the past. You people are something else.

  • Posted By: mistermcfrugal @ 07/14/2008 11:17:07 AM

    Newsweek is so in the tank for Obama. The writer claims to know what Obama thinks about his faith life. What would that same writer have said he knew about Obama's belief on campaign finance, FISA and running from Iraq as fast as possible? I think we can say that the Newsweek writer knows almost nothing about what Obama believes. We Americans should on safe ground to say that Obama only believes in himself. Beyond that we don't know at all. He could be easily be a Muslim. That is not as crazy an idea as some thought only a month ago is it?

  • Posted By: engrdr @ 07/14/2008 8:20:25 AM

    He is considered black as his faather is black--so he is muslim as his father and step father were muslim----where is the mystery in this---and christainatiy is worshipping a guy born out of wedlock and whose father is unknown. Did God prode a semen to unwed mother, then that God is either a rapist or the woman was a slut for consenting to this--Go figure

    • Posted By: sunshineannmarie @ 07/14/2008 11:16:32 AM

      You obviously do not know the bible where Ishmael was born of a concubine and God gave him a nation unto himself. God forgives all and it is not for man to judge but God.

  • Posted By: nikchik @ 07/14/2008 9:24:34 AM

    In Joshua 24:15 it says to choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. God did not tell American to make the choice for others. Why are we bothering to suggest or question or choose whom Barack Obama serves as God? He has made his choice; yet Americans are consumed with revisiting and probing his choice.

    • Posted By: sunshineannmarie @ 07/14/2008 11:14:55 AM

      Agree with your comments. They want freedom of speech etc for themselves and not for others.

      Just my views from far away in the Caribbean.

  • Posted By: habush @ 07/14/2008 9:55:49 AM

    Just simply speaking for myself as a follower of Jesus, I am praying for great leadership for my country. If you are a true Christian, and not in name only, then you truly have an understanding of why good leadership is so important, and why it is important for leaders to know the one true God and understand His wisdom. I know many here on this comment sites do not know God or even may not believe He exists. We can still have a discussion about God's principles for a good society.

    Now I do not believe our government should force or coerce someone to become a Christian ever. God expects us to make an individual choice about whether or not to follow his Son Jesus. God only has children, he has no grandchildren....we cannot make that choice for others no matter how grieved we may be at the result...if we do not choose to be reconciled with God, we will have to live apart from Him for eternity. But it is and will until Jesus returns for his own, be an individual choice that must be made.

    But what troubles me is that many people, both in the government and in our society, do not want the words of God or His Son ever spoken in the public square, and without this freedom for Christians...no one will be able to hear these words of life and even be given the opportunity to make this choice. We as Christians must be allowed in the public square, or in churches, or in our homes to follow Jesus and God's commandments, which is simply to tell others...to give others the invitation to ultimate peace with God. What people do from there is on their own conscience. But we are commanded to give the invitation. In America, our freedom to do this is slowly being taken away and people are now and will be even more in great darkness.

    There are dire consequences always for not following God's principles for living. Ultimately if a society rejects God altogether they will collapse into anarchy and totalitarianism. One must only sift back through the pages of recent history to see where communism and socialism brought their people, and the rejection of God was always paired with these. God wants us to live by principle, and to encourage others to these standards, not arbitrarily because He said so, but because He loves us and understands that we will live healthiest and happiest, to the extent it is possible in this earthly life, if we will follow His principles. We simply want leaders who understand this, and not discourage by their intrusion or policies...and not force or coerce...the free exercise of His teachings. I hope this makes some sense even to those who may not know Jesus.

    • Posted By: sunshineannmarie @ 07/14/2008 11:13:20 AM

      habash,


      Excellent comments. Most of the bloggers just put words on the internet to confuse and beat down people rather than uplift. They seek to cause confusion rather than report the truth which was what the pharises and the Romans did in the bibical times. Articles and magazines that poke fun at people, they enjoy and if the shoe was on the other foot, they get angry and complain.

      Thanks once again for those comments.

      Just my views from far away in the Caribbean.

  • Posted By: mckay87 @ 07/14/2008 11:05:52 AM

    Who cares about Obama's faith. There's suppose to be a seperation of church in state in this country. You can have strong moral values without religion.Why is media trying to spin faith when current issues should be a concern.

  • Posted By: golden girl @ 07/14/2008 10:59:01 AM

    I find all this talk, as Obama, has put it, "Just Words". I'm tired of hearing him trying to convince me an American that he is Christian. I have never been in a Christian church that gives sermons full of hatred for others, racism, and hatred of America (especially after our AMERICAN gov. has given Trinity Church $15 Million dollars over the past few years.) I though Religion and State were to be separate, yet there has been too much talk about Obama's religion, than what he plans to do about America's problems. I think the piece on the cover of "The New Yorker" fits my impression of Obama, and he will not be able to change that. Obama's religious views are not Christian at all, his religious upbringing(Trinity church) is not Chrisitan at all, not matter how many times he trys to explain it, I saw the video's, this cry for "We need change" is not the kind of change I want, nor the kind most Americans want. Campaigning on college campuses may have gotten him a lot of votes, but we all know how the US rands world-wide in education, so that just goes to show the type of voters he is going after. Those who still even with college degrees can not evaluate a situation based on facts, and are still not repsonsible enough, to make intelligent decisions.

  • Posted By: golden girl @ 07/14/2008 10:58:32 AM

    I find all this talk, as Obama, has put it, "Just Words". I'm tired of hearing him trying to convince me an American that he is Christian. I have never been in a Christian church that gives sermons full of hatred for others, racism, and hatred of America (especially after our AMERICAN gov. has given Trinity Church $15 Million dollars over the past few years.) I though Religion and State were to be separate, yet there has been too much talk about Obama's religion, than what he plans to do about America's problems. I think the piece on the cover of "The New Yorker" fits my impression of Obama, and he will not be able to change that. Obama's religious views are not Christian at all, his religious upbringing(Trinity church) is not Chrisitan at all, not matter how many times he trys to explain it, I saw the video's, this cry for "We need change" is not the kind of change I want, nor the kind most Americans want. Campaigning on college campuses may have gotten him a lot of votes, but we all know how the US rands world-wide in education, so that just goes to show the type of voters he is going after. Those who still even with college degrees can not evaluate a situation based on facts, and are still not repsonsible enough, to make intelligent decisions.

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