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“Obama Is Not a Muslim, But He Is a Statist
Who Doesn’t Believe in American Exceptionalism”
Shane Vander Hart, Editor of Caffeinated Thoughts
http://bit.ly/ciQyqC

[President Obama] identifies himself as a Christian, though I would say that he and I would define that differently.

Shane – agreed.

I, too, define Christianity differently. My Christian faith identifies me, not the other way around. There is no necessity to “identify” myself as Christian. If my actions do not confirm my Christianity, then I must reevaluate my actions and come correct.

Your closing remark regarding President Obama merits repeating. These words hit the mark.

[President Obama] is a statist who has given up on the traditional idea of American exceptionalism and that frankly scares me more. Debating that he is a Muslim to me [sic] is a distraction from what his real agenda is.

Quite true, Shane – and perhaps that is the intention: to distract.

President Obama and his ilk collectively reject the traditional idea of American exceptionalism. See President Obama’s non-sensical rhetoric regarding the American exceptionalism: http://bit.ly/BA4kb

Indeed, there is a trend in the United States toward the belief that apologies are appropriate to redress the “misguided notion” of American exceptionalism. I posit that the One whom the United States most needs to “apologize” is Our Father, Who Art in Heaven.

The United States is no longer a paradigm among nations. This begs the question: if not the United States, then whom? What nation will emerge to replace the United States as a paradigm? Perhaps we should posit that question to President Obama.

President Obama, Muslim or not Muslim, is a moot query. Maybe he is; maybe he isn’t. If President Obama is Muslim, then is he an apostate? Maybe he is; maybe he isn’t. Maybe – just, maybe – President Obama is practicing Muslim expediency rather than apostasy.

Hmmm. Let us mull over that for a moment.

In regards to your commentary that President Obama seeks counsel of those who “speak more about social justice than they do the Gospel,” I must vehemently rejoin that true social justice is the Gospel. Who, if not Christ Jesus, is the Author of social justice?

Moreover, if indeed President Obama’s goal is social justice, he missed the mark magnanimously.

I cannot express more eloquently than these:

“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign.”
Blessed Mother Teresa http://www.motherteresa.org/

“Social justice begins in the womb.”
Bryan Kemper http://www.standtrue.com/pages/about/bryanbio.htm

Actions speak louder than words.