How could Obama claim to attend a church for 20 years and not know his pastors bigotry toward the 9/11 victims

Answer 1

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I just listen to NPR radio and it was explained that the black community's heard these things in a different light light than do whites.that the pastor is a mainstream pastor and is not out of the ordinary listen for your self on the replay of the program was on NPR look for the program "tell me more" and the subject faith matters

Answer 2

He is a politician , and maybe a Muslim .

Answer 3

Lol..Obama has selective hearing...

Answer 4

Psh. Who really listens at church?

Answer 5

So what? Seriously. It doesn't mean a damned thing. His pastor has his own ideas, and obama has his own. It means NOTHING at all and you Americans need to let it go.

Answer 6

1. He's attended the same Church since he started his organizing work in Chicago, so yes, he's been going there for years.

2. HE'S NOT MUSLIM! Stop the idiotic bullshit about him being Muslim when for the 10,000th time, he is a Protestant Christian.

Answer 7

Maybe his pastor , like a lot of sapiens, has a survival instinct.How does it ever happen that someone surprises others? 'he was such a quiet lad'( 'til he went on that murderous rampage).

Answer 8

I couldn't sit through 20 seconds of that bellowing psychotic
delivery from the pulpit, regardless of the message.

Answer 9

maybe he was spiritually voting 'present'

Answer 10

maybe he isn't very political with his pastor...

Answer 11

Obama says that the pastor never said those things in his presence, but I don't buy it. Someone with the character of that pastor does not just say something like that one day, and then the next day give a nice sweet sermon about lilies of the field! If Obama couldn't see what this guy was all about, then I say, he's so dumb he couldn't handle being president.

Answer 12

I agree with Nikki S. He was a big influence on Obama. You can't tell me some of that didn't sink in.

Answer 13

That's how politics works.....deny, deceive.....I think we all now know why his wife has made such hate-filled comments about America....all those years of sermons seeped in.....It did for Obama, too, but he'll never admit it publicly.....but he will show it in action. Politicians always do .....Bush says mission accomplished in Iraq, but in action he still keeps asking for more money to send more troops. Obama's actions will always betray his real beliefs, and if his wife has had that bigotry seep in, so has Obama....I do not want that kind of mentality and hatred and bigotry influencing what does and does not get signed into law in the country I live in....Period....

Answer 14

Or his hatred for America, or his hatred of whites, or his claim that "White America" infected blacks with AIDS.. Etc.. Etc...

Excellent question.. Maybe Obama will be able to explain it to us tomorrow night...

Answer 15

I believe that Obama is a good Christian man that realized the man 90% of the time spoke the word of God correctly. Also, the man is black, which is 95% of the reason all black people go to church, because of a black preacher. The message is irrelevant.

It was a safe place for Obama and his family to go, and no one brought harm to his wife and children. And, being that Obama is a Christian, (genuine, I believe), he recognized church attendance as a necessity. This was probably the best choice of a church for the area he was living in. Obama probably knew of the contradiction in some of the pastor's sermons, but rejected some of the conjectures, while accepting the truth.

Obama's pastor sounds like one of those home grown terrorists that has a great deal of influence on uneducated groups that have no real understanding of the Bible. These uneducated groups create movements against the United States, and think they have the blessing of the preacher, thus erroneously thinking they have a blessing of God. Which couldn't be further from the truth.

I have nothing against Obama. He's straight.

The preacher needs to be careful of his own anger, because it is not his place to be angry in the place of God, nor is it his place to pronounce a curse on this country and its leadership in such a fashion as he did. The job of a pastor is to lead people in the way of salvation, not use the pulpit to shoot political arrows. When he pronounces a curse on the US like that, he pronounces it upon ALL the people that live here. And that is not the calling or function of anyone in the New Testament.

We are called to preach the word of God, bring people to salvation, and to uphold the laws of this country. When he pronounced that curse, he side-stepped the issue of the fact that most of the injustices today upon black people are self-imposed.

Obama is trying to stop black people from placing blame, and encouraging them to take responsibility for positive change. Obama's message is 180 degrees in the opposite direction, and he does not believe much of what mainstream Black America believes, because it is wrong.

That's why I voted for him in the primary.

Answer 16

Like many others ... he was probably asleep.

Answer 17

how can people actually believe anything obama says?