Posted by
netfotoj on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:09:24 PM
Mark Hemingway at The Corner on National Review, delves quite a bit further into
Obama's 'Conventional' Faith
When you're done reading
Kurtz's excellent piece on what Obama's faith says about his leftist politics (as well as
the Chicago Reader piece he highlights), I suggest you this read Chicago Sun-Times columnist
Cathleen Falsani's interview with Obama about his faith from 2004:
"So, I have a deep faith," Obama continues. "I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
"That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived."
It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith — Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone — know the same God, Falsani writes about Obama’s theology.
Do you still attend Trinity?
OBAMA:
Yep. Every week. 11 o’clock service.
Ever been there? Good service.
I actually wrote a book called
Dreams from My Father, it’s kind of a meditation on race. There’s a whole chapter on the church in that, and my first visits to Trinity.
(Hemingway comments: I think what Obama meant to say is, "Every week, except when Wright is planning on saying something controversial, I stay home so I can deny it later — in other words, I hardly ever attend.")
I gotta add, at least in the regard to missing all those sermons when Wright went postal on whitey, Obama does sound like a fairly conventional church member in attendance: regular as clockwork on Easter and Christmas and AWOL the rest of the year. Now there's an idea for an investigative reporter. Find the Easter and Christmas TUCC service videos and look for Obama.
Do you have people in your life that you look to for guidance?
OBAMA:
Well, my pastor (Rev. Wright) is certainly someone who I have an enormous amount of respect for. I have a number of friends who are ministers. Reverend Meeks is a close friend and colleague of mine in the state Senate. Father Michael Pfleger is a dear friend, and somebody I interact with closely.
(Hemingway comments: Well, he's now disowned two of those three — and heading for a trifecta. As for the remaining minister Obama claims a close relationship with, Meeks hasn't gotten much media scrutiny yet, but
he's a big problem as well. For starters, some enterprising reporter might ask Obama what he thinks about Meeks' suggestion that "Hollywood Jews" were responsible for Brokeback Mountain.)
As Allah says, Hmmmmmm! Maybe Obama's record isn't as blank as he's been accused of. But what is on the record with him, as Alice said, is growing curiouser and curiouser.