America has never had a president with a background and a worldview as complex and mysterious as Obama’s.
This bothers me.
Influenced by Faith
Obama claims to be a Christian, but the controversy surrounding his close and long-lived association with Jeremiah Wright raises red flags. And so I began to wonder, when did Obama become a Christian? After some research I found an article dated 2008 on this subject matter from Newsweek magazine titled “Finding His Faith”. The author summarized,
“Born to a Christian-turned-secular mother and a Muslim-turned-atheist African father, Obama grew up living all across the world with plenty of spiritual influences, but without any particular religion. He is now a Christian, having been baptized in the early 1990s at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.”
Since Jeremiah Wright’s explosive “reveal”, Obama has left that church body and has not regularly attended services with any particular church body. According to this article from Time magazine, he and his family attended church three times in 2009 and did not attend Christmas Eve services. This 2011 article from the Tampa Bay Times reports that Obama has attended church in Washington about 9 times.
This bothers me.
Influenced by Family
Nobody chooses their family, and I certainly do not fault Obama personally for his unusual family background. However, the complexity of his family dynamics also raises some red flags and leads to the question of whether or not Obama is upholding ideals established by America’s forefathers. While I have not read Obama’s book,”Dreams from My Father”, I’ve read some summaries/reviews/excerpts.
“Mr. Obama charts his journey through adolescence into manhood with the familiar type of anecdotes, but adds to them a bewildering combination of races, relatives and homelands, from Hawaii to Indonesia to Africa to Chicago.”
“Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon.”
In an interview about his film, Obama’s America: 2016, Dinesh D’Souza describes that in “Dreams from My Father” Obama talks about how
“this absentee father was the guiding star of his life”.
The film asserts that Mr. Obama pursues his father’s left-leaning, “anticolonial” ideals.
More about Barack Obama, Sr. and his socialistic ideals (from D’Souza) can be read here. Includes a link to an article written by the senior Obama in 1965, which D’Souza claims, when
“placed side by side with the junior Obama's policies, it seems evident that the father's hatred of those on top, and his determination to confiscate their wealth, is largely replicated in the son.”
This bothers me.
Influenced by Associations
Obama’s longtime mentor, Frank Marshal Davis, is no stranger to Americans. He is rather a very well-documented individual with extremist, anti-American views that he carried out in well-documented activities.
“…Davis joined Communist Party USA in Chicago during World War II (his Party number was 47544). He became extremely active in Party circles and even wrote for and was the founding editor-in-chief of the Communist Party publication there, the Chicago Star. He left Chicago in 1948 for Hawaii, where he would write for the Party publication there, the Honolulu Record. Those writings reveal a man fully loyal to the Soviet Union and the Communist Party line, and often bare an uncanny resemblance to Obama’s own rhetoric, whether Davis was bashing Wall Street, big oil, big banks, corporate executives and their “excess profits” and “greed” and their “fat contracts,” the wealthy and “millionaires,” GOP tax cuts that “spare the rich,” and on and on.”
Americanthinker.com – Paul Kengor
“Frank Marshall Davis's politics were so radical, and so pro-Soviet, that the Democrats who ran the Senate in 1956 summoned him to Washington to testify on his pro-Soviet activities. Even more remarkable, the FBI placed him on the federal government's Security Index, meaning that if a war broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union, Obama's mentor could have been placed under immediate arrest.”
Accuracy in Media – Cliff Kincaid
“It has been known for over four years that Davis, a member of the Communist Party, was the mysterious “Frank” from Obama’s book,Dreams from My Father, and that he influenced the young Obama before he went off to college. Davis was Obama’s mentor for eight years of his young life in Hawaii.”
Frank Marshall Davis – Obama’s MENTOR… this bothers me.
Obama’s association with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers continues to be suspect and was scrutinized by the media early on.
Americanthinker.com – Daren Jonescu
“Bill Ayers, from his earliest adulthood, has been an avowed enemy of the American government. For many years, he openly sought to destroy it through violence, activism, and collaboration with anti-American organizations in other countries. Since becoming "respectable," he has continued to espouse the view that the U.S. Constitution, and America's institutions in general, are the instruments of oppression, racism, and all the rest of the Marxist assault on constitutional republicanism.”
“The claim that Obama hadn't "spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail" with Ayers since 2005 appears in retrospect to have been a Clintonian parsing of the truth. In fact, it now appears they spoke face to face at Ayers 4th of July party. But notice there's a bit of goalpost moving being done by LaBolt here as well. No one suggested that Ayers was a political adviser to candidate Obama. The suggestion was that the two men were friends and that the friendship might indicate that the two shared similar worldviews. That's the story the NY Times and the rest of the media never fully investigated in 2008.”
“In 1997, after Mr. Obama took office, the new state senator was asked what he was reading by The Chicago Tribune. He praised a book by Mr. Ayers, “A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court,” which Mr. Obama called “a searing and timely account of the juvenile court system.” In 2001, Mr. Ayers donated $200 to Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign.”
This bothers me.
Of course, I’ve already mentioned Obama’s close association with his former pastor and spiritual advisor for 20+ years, Jeremiah Wright. His notorious sermon will undoubtedly be remembered… with shock and disgust.
And of course,
This bothers me.
Social and Moral Issues
People change their minds everyday. We change our minds about things such as what to have for dinner, what clothes to wear, vacation plans, etc. Sometimes we change our minds for good reason, but sometimes we do it for no reason at all.
Changing a viewpoint, or a belief, however, requires strong motivation, and Obama’s explanation for his “evolving” viewpoint regarding marriage puzzles me, appears weak and certainly has no Biblical support.
“President Obama comes out in support of gay marriage, saying he was influenced in part by his young daughters, who have friends whose parents are same-sex couples, and first lady Michelle Obama.”
This adds to my confusion regarding the influence and true nature of Obama’s faith and…
This bothers me.
I believe that nothing pleases God more than to see us use our freewill when we are obedient to His Word. In His Word, we are clearly instructed: “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. I must say that every time I hear the words: “Women should be able to make decisions regarding their own bodies” when referring to pro-choice on the the abortion issue, I am astounded. Such statements would indicate that when a woman aborts, she is aborting a part of her own body. That is simply not true.
Go back to basic biology. A fertilized egg, or zygote, is not “part of a woman’s body”. It has its own 46 chromosomes, 23 from each parent. Though not matured, absolutely a complete and entire living thing.
And aside from that, such a statement contradicts what scripture tells us, 1 Corinthians 6:19:
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Again, I am confused and can only guess (not being judgmental here) that if Obama believes himself to be a Christian, and if he is pro-choice, then he must be sitting on the fence that Satan so enjoys watching us do!
And…
This also bothers me.
- Obama’s unstable, changing, erratic upbringing.
- The integral roles that extremist, radical and even criminal associations have played in Obama’s life experience.
- The apparent lack of a solid, faith foundation as evidenced by his stance on moral/social issues.
All these things that bother me paint a vivid picture. A picture that is not good. A picture that is very troubling. A picture that deserves much prayer.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2
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