But the fact remains, that the beliefs of Bible believing christians cannot dictate the laws of a country. God graciously gave us free will to decide for ourselves to follow his will or to reject it. To strip citizens of their right to marry (even if it is a sin), or even to murder what you may consider to be an unborn child, takes away our freedom to decide how to lead our lives. A man marrying a man does not effect you, it is a choice that some may consider sinful and against God’s will- but a choice nonetheless that God gave us the right to make.

God didn’t make it easy for us. He didn’t make the world black and white. He made faith a requirement to follow him.

The danger in basing political madates on the Bible lies in the very facts that you stated in your post, and have been demonstrated various times in the responses to it: People will always interpret the Bible from their own gloriously independent and (sometimes) self-serving view point.

God bless.

The Bible also says that for a man to lay with a man is an abomination and in I Corinthians 6:9&10 “Do you not kow that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals nor sodomites, nor theives, nor covetous, not drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” That’s what God says in the Bible Mr. Obama, so what Bible are you reading?

The Bible is God’s Word and it also says the way to heaven is narrow and few there are that go that way, and wide is the way to destruction and many will take that wide (liberal) way. So Christians may be narrow minded, but so is the Lord. Jesus said “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through (by) Me.” The Bible also says “every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD.” You can bow now using your free will knowing the truth of God, or you WILL bow later when it is too late.

A Conservative Christian in California

However, I am concerned about someone who claims to be a Christian and discounts the Bible. That is what has happened in liberal Christian churches. Jesus warned about being lukewarm. “So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.” Revelation 3:16-17 (NIV). Pretty strong stuff.

The point in my post is that to say that the Christian Right has hijacked Christianity is 180 degrees from the truth. Liberal Christian churches have watered down Biblical truth to conform to “the world” so much that they would be more honest if they started a new “church” without the Christian name. A majority of Americans still hold to Biblical truth and as a result, Liberal church atttendence is shrinking.

John McCain took on the Christian Right and George Bush was elected President. I believe Obama is making the same mistake that McCain made.

For telling the truth about those right wing religious extremists who DO mis-use religion for their political gain–and there’s no shortage of them for they include everybody from Dr. James Dobson and his Focus On the Family rants to Mormon religious extremist operatives like David McConkie who’s a Mormon religious political extremist lobbyist plus all the Catholic and Baptist including many other “kill-the-’commie’-for-christ” types who NEVER shut up and stop ranting about “their” moral rightness and even worse never stop using Jesus as their excuse not only to collect money but also oppress people–Senator Barack Obama should NOT catch any flack. He’s doing right by telling the truth about these religious extremists so-called do-gooder moralists, most of whom these religious extremists are loud-mouth chronic complainers who find fault with everyone and everything and never would be satisfied if Jesus walked up and stood in front of them because they’re so corrupt!

Too many of these people do exactly as Senator Obama asserted which is to say indeed they do cause division. These religious extremists don’t care if they divide. No one hears these blasphemers preaching unity! Instead they sow division by proclaiming everybody’s doing something or another wrong against one group or another and by this incite hostility of people and groups against each other.

Barack Obama has it right, absolutely when he says people wrongly use religion to divide people from each other. This is precisely what people who are religious extremists do–everybody from the Baptist moralists to the Mormon church operatives like David McConkie who ruthlessly shoves Republican Mormonism down peoples’ throats and calls a person a heathen if she or he is not Mormon all peddling Jesus as their brand–and they know they do.

Good job, Senator Obama

Sincerely,
Kathy Caudle
Salt Lake City, UT

It’s interesting that the comments Obama made about “the religious right” (only several sentences in his entire speech) are the only ones that are sought out and repeated over and over across the web, although much more of his speech explained his personal journey and his beliefs in his faith. Unfortunately, that’s about par for the course on the blogs these days.

I’m not sure if there’s been any hijacking or not, but Dan is right, Liberals have attempted to distort the teachings of Christ into something they are not. Obama has been deceived and is being deceitful. Christ’s greatest commandments are to love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. That’s awesome, hopefully we all can agree on the importance of Love. To say that loving everyone means that you have to ignore wickedness and evil in the world is just plain silly. Many people act like noone should ever tell anyone else they are wrong. If somebody is making poor decisions such as using drugs or driving drunk, then it’d be hateful to sit by, do nothing, and watch them destroy themselves. The loving thing to do would be to confront them and try to help them find Truth and meaning in their life.

The issues listed above (abortion, gay marriage, no prayer in school…) are important issues that Bible believers have an opinion on. Gay marriage and abortion are not necessarily worse than other sins, but they are anti-biblical, and therefore people often have a strong opinion on them. These are not the most important issues, disease, poverty, corruption, starvation are clearly important matters that we all need to strive to combat in the course of our daily lives.

Many people have a hard time coming to grips with the simple reality that there is right and there is wrong. Good and evil both exist. I wake up every day determined to combat evil and be the strong, loving person that God has called me to be. My source for these definitions is the teachings of Jesus Christ. Barack Obama’s attacks on the beliefs of Christian leaders are an attack on my beliefs. I think Dan is right that this behavior will have negative political consequences for Obama.

http://thewaywarriors.blogspot.com/2007/02/case-for-christ.html.

And I don’t believe as the other person stated that there is a commandment that says it’s a sin to pray in public schools, or that love between two people MUST be man and woman. I was taught in bible class that God loves us all equally, and if we sin and ask forgiveness, he takes the sin upon himself and forgives. The religious right wing seem to forget that when it comes to politics, except of course when you are pouring money into your special interests groups to get a President to go to war and lie to the American people.

Remember the greatest commandment: Love your God with all you heart and mind and love your neighbor as yourself

God loves all of us. if it not crime let God be the judge