In Obama’s first term, an evolving Christian faith and a more evangelical style

[cbayer]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/27/in-obamas-first-term-an-evolving-christian-faith-and-a-more-evangelical-style/


President Obama speaking from the pulpit of a Washington church in 2010.

October 27th, 2012
10:00 PM ET

In Obama’s first term, an evolving Christian faith and a more evangelical style
Editor's note: This is the last in a series about the faith lives of the presidential candidates, which includes a profile of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor

Washington (CNN) – President Obama’s prayers for a strong first debate may not have been answered, but that doesn’t mean the prayers weren’t happening.

Before he stepped onto a Colorado stage earlier this month to face off with Mitt Romney for the first time, Obama joined a conference call with a small circle of Christian ministers.

“The focus of that prayer was, ‘Oh, Lord, you know precisely what the president needs to say,'” says Kirbyjon Caldwell, a Methodist megachurch pastor from Texas who helped lead the call. “'You know what this country needs during the next four years.’”

“'And so I would pray that your primary will and words that you want the president to say will fall from his lips,'” Caldwell goes on, recalling his prayer.

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[CthulhusEvilCousin]

1. How ironic

that the President is a Christian, yet is depicted as a gay fundamentalist Muslim and is universally hated by modern "Christendom", and the guy depicted as the "honorable Christian" is actually the lying cult leader that hates Christianity.

“Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the ‘whore of Babylon’ whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent” - Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 255

[cbayer]

2. He is far from hated by modern Christendom

By fundamentalists, yes. By Christians in general, not at all.

[trotsky]

4. Is it your claim that only fundamentalist Christians dislike President Obama?

Because if so, you are completely and utterly wrong.

[YoungDemCA]

7. Maybe I'm wrong, but I tend to think that the visceral, irrational hate of the President...

..comes largely, but certainly not exclusively, from fundamentalist Protestants (along with ultra-conservative Catholics of the Rick Santorum type).

[trotsky]

8. That has not been my experience.

The biggest Obama-hating mouth-breathers I know are Protestants, but not fundamentalists.

[beam me up scottie]

9. Yup. If "christians in general" were really that tolerant Obama would win by a landslide.

And yet here we are...

[cleanhippie]

10. ^^THIS^^

[Wildcat1955]

3. Brother

Barack Obama is not only my President, but my brother in Christ. Shame on the Christians guilty of slander and calumny. The President has been a good exemplar to the American people.

[dimbear]

5. The Mormons have found it convenient to deny that they ever hated Catholics, and

that shift has been going on for decades. Just because their holy writ calls the Catholic church a whore and a great and filthy abomination doesn't mean there should be any bad feelings twixt them.

[dimbear]

6. Just my opinion, but President Obama should specify a denomination, and loudly.

Probably should say "I am a Baptist."

That's his best chance to convince the residual morons who can't fathom that he is the only Protestant in the running.