Barack Obama Is Not a Christian in Any Meaningful Way

Posted by Erick Erickson on February 6, 2015 at 4:30 am

Barack Obama Is Not a Christian in Any Meaningful Way 

   

Barack Obama is not, in any meaningful way, a Christian and I am not sure he needs to continue the charade. With no more elections for him, he might as well come out as the atheist/agnostic that he is.1 He took his first step in doing so yesterday in a speech reeking with contempt for faith in general and Christianity in particular. Saying that violent acts are not representative of Islam, the President then attacked Christians for the Crusades (started as a response to Islamic invasion), the Inquisition (a Catholic thing, not us Protestants), slavery (abolished thanks to Christians), and Jim Crow (Dr. King also had a "Reverend" in front of his name). Despite the interpretations and defenses of the President on what he meant, he gave away the game with a bit of the speech not given nearly as much play in the media.  From the transcript:

I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt -- not being so full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks only to us, and doesn’t speak to others, that God only cares about us and doesn’t care about others, that somehow we alone are in possession of the truth.

Christ said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." (John 14:6) Christ himself is truth. When we possess Christ, we possess truth. The President is a moral relativist. It was clear in his whole speech. He cannot condemn and attack ISIS as he should because in his mind what is truth? Truth is a nebulous concept with our post-modern President. With truth a nebulous concept, right and wrong are too. We know God cares about everyone. We know Christ came to die for sinners. But Christians know Christ is truth itself. To have truth, we must have Christ. To suggest that everyone can have some version of God and some version of truth is worldly babbling, not Christianity. The President followed up those words with these:

And so, as people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those who try to distort our religion -- any religion -- for their own nihilistic ends. 

I agree. So I wish the President would stop professing himself to be a Christian if he is not going to proclaim Christ as truth and the only way to salvation. The "all paths" nonsense and moral equivalence might fit in with the present age, but the present age does not really fit with Christ. And as for doubts on whether I'm right, "the starting point of faith is some doubt" in my ability to save myself, not in whether I'm right. I know I'm a sinner. I know I cannot save myself. I have no doubt that Christ is the only way. It's not that I'm right, but that Christ is right. So, Mr. President, get off your own high horse.

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1. No, despite what some think, Barack Obama is not a closet Muslim. Islam teaches that "there is no god but God, Mohammed is the messenger of God." Obama's name is neither Allah nor Mohammed. Therefore, there is no room for him to presume himself a god. So, Obama with faith only in himself, must be an atheist/agnostic.↩