A New Role for Religion in Obama's White House
Faith has played a larger role in Obama's White House so far than in any other president's
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Church/State Seperation
I am truly disappointed. Obama was the intended cure for the ills created by "W" and his propagation of funding for church organizations. One would expect Obama to follow through on his promises to support the constitution.
Most of those who supported Obama in his election thought that his presidency would signal the end to financial funding for churches and the clear violation of separation of church and state.
Not so, his true nature now becomes evident. In the end, he appears to be just another politician.
Separation of Church and State - try voting Libertarian
I'm so relieved that others are seeing Obama's true colors as well. Thank you for clearly showing Obama's path.
One theme has run through my life - I'm naturally resistant to tyranny. I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness (the tyranny of boredom), but I rebelled against it from a very early age. To make a long story not too long, my personal, religious and political philosophies have all come together in good alignment for the first time in my life. Politically I'm Libertarian. The platform is as close to the Founding Fathers' original vision as anything I've ever seen. Democrats are too tyrannical with taxation and babying perfectly capable adults into slothfulness and dependence upon the government. Republicans are too tyrannical with the police power of cracking down on victimless crime vices.
There are other parties, but socialism is a peppy march to totalitarianism. When government is one's master, where does God fit in? Either God created us free or enslaved. We just can't have it both ways.
There are so many sources of Libertarian philosophy, it would be tragic to list them all. However, a friend has a blog www.libertarianviewpoint.com that is helpful. Another site is www.libertarianism.com.
Amen
Bravo, well said ... "Now get up, take all the talents that God gave you and make a positive impact on the world. Become the miracle that God designed you to be." I do ... I Am
Truth and Love:
Share the Truth and Love each Mother and Child.
Encourage others to seek the truth. The truth will set you free.
Did you know, In just two years there are more unborn American babies (more than 2.4 Million) that die from abortion than all the Americans that have died in all our wars (less than 1.4 Million).
CONFLICT SPAN TOTALS
War of Independence (1775-1783) 25,000
Quasi-War (1798-1800) 20
Barbary Wars (1801-1815) 35
War of 1812 (1812-1815) 20,000
1st Seminole War (1817-1818) 30
2nd Seminole War (1835-1842) 1,500
Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 13,283
3rd Seminole War (1855-1858) 26
Civil War (1861-1865) 623,026
Indian Wars (1865-1898) 919
Spanish-American War (1898) 2,446
Philippine War (1898-1902) 4,196
Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901) 37
Mexican Revolution (1914-1919) 35
Haiti Occupation (1915-1934) 146
World War 1 (1917-1918) 116,708
World War 2 (1941-1945) 407,316
Korean War (1950-1953) 36,914
Vietnam War (1964-1973) 58,169
El Salvador (1980-1992) 20
Beirut (1982-1984) 266
Persian Gulf Support (1987-1988) 39
Invasion of Grenada (1983) 19
Invasion of Panama (1989) 40
Persian Gulf War (1991) 269
Somalia (1992-1993) 43
Bosnia 1995 12
Afghanistan (2002-2009) 686+
Iraqi (2003-2009) 4,299+
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TOTAL 1,315,499
http://www.militaryfactory.com/american_war_deaths.asp
God Bless You And Your Family
Hope for Change:
I hope and pray that we change from me to we and from selfish desires wants to teamwork for the GOOD of all (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness).
I hope and pray that President Obama does include instead of exclude. I hope and pray that he encourages love over selfish wants, pride, desires, envy, and everything that seperates us from love.
I hope and pray that he is inclusive of those of us that say spending tax money on abortions around the world and in America is spending money to kill an unborn baby in a horrific way. Don't support me (mother or baby) over we (mother and baby).
I hope and pray that he encourages and designs government social program improvements that are social justice (hand up and responsibility for those that receive) and not just a handout. I hope he realizes that many of the people who work hard for the tax money would very welling give to a program that encourages those that receive the tax money to have a growing responsibility to give back (social justice and hand up) and not to.just receive a continuous handout without any responsibilities. Everyone that receives can produce something back to society (maybe small at first but something). Social Justice should never make anyone dependent upon the tax money to survive but to require them to give back and grow responsibility and into being a more productive person. Using your talents and working is good for the mind, body, soul, and heart. Everyone can use their talents for the good of the world. If you take work and reponsibility away and make them dependent then that destroys the person and handicaps them. Pay it forward, work, and reponsibility is true help and love for the person and families (inclusive). We can do this together if everyone gives back.
I hope and pray that he leads by an example to repect Human Life (unborn babies) and love is above the needs for me, my choice, comfort, convience, wants, pride, lust, embarassment, and personal goals. I hope he does discourage slaughtering our unborn babies in such cruel ways. I hope he encourages and educates everone on how cruel abortion is to the unborn child.
I hope he encourages people to be responsibile for their decisions and not just abort them. I hope and pray that he encourages the truth to be told.
I hope he encourages the rich, middleclass, and poor to be more reponsible for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness for all. Everyone can give back to the team some of what they have so that WE can be a better nation.
I hope and pray that President Obama, Congress, and the Senate encourages Love of our neighbor as ourself.
I have hope for change. I hope he continues to pull the nation together to talk through better solutions so that WE can love and celebrate all of Human Life above self.
God Bless You And Your Family
Miracles:
William,
You are part of the proof and miracle. Your complex design was not just something that happened. You were designed for a purpose from a blue print that is very complex. A car and a computer both have complex designs and they were made for specific purposes by humans. You are much much more complex than a car or a computer. God designed you (the Human Being). This very complex universe was designed to function perfectly like a watch was designed to keep time. The universe sets time. Think about all the other systems on earth that function as designed. Air is being produced each day to allow you to live. Everything around you is a miracle and was designed by God. All the systems that work together to sustain life on earth were designed for you by God. You are important and made for a purpose.
Now get up, take all the talents that God gave you and make a positive impact on the world. Become the miracle that God designed you to be.
God Bless You And Your Family
Obama and religion
Many if not most people of faith in the mainstream do not look for miracles or Godly interventions. Faith is NOT about that. It is first acknowledging you are part of something larger than just self - a point that is sometimes lost on those seeking mere personal salvation - and that the teachings and wisdom of the ages have something to say to us today about justice, common good, and decency. The reason so many mainstream and progressive people of faith are heartened by Obama's focus is that it is inclusive, not doctrinaire as was Bush's single-minded sectarianism. The comment that it is the Communist Manifesto is just silly - the issues of the Common Good are written into our Constitution. When Obama said we have to change Me to We, he spoke for huge numbers whose faith and secular principles accept our own lives as part of the whole. Balance between self and others is both a faith and secular democratic truth. A part of contemporary Christianity has perverted both God and country into selfish gain, but faith and democratic traditions are about being committed to the needs of others as well as of self. The restoration of a place in the pubic arena where voices of the mainstream may be heard and even heeded is refreshing and energizing.
religion
I just can't imagine why we feel it so important to acknowledge a "God" who, apparently, does nothing. Beyond all the talk, where is the proof that everything that happens in this world is not completely disconnected from and deity at all? Please, anybody, give me one clear example, except anything you find in your bible or koran, that there has been any documented miracle, or any divine intervention. Ever. Since there is no proof of any such intervention, unless of course someone out there can prove otherwise, why should we allow our government to use our tax dollars to support this farce? Instead, I believe we should support reason over faith, back a reality based government, and end the office of faith based initiatives.
the way obama gets things done
Obama talks in a moderate and conservative way and acts in a liberal way.
The "REAL" Obama Religion
Global Warming
Reparations for Slaves
We know what is better for you....or else
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine.
Communist Manifesto....their old testament
Das Kapital.....their new testament
The General Theory....in the end we're all dead anyway so spend spend spend
IL-LIBERAL education on display....at its best
