He claims to be a Christian today. In the Wikipedia article I quoted before, he is quoted as saying
"I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life." Which is more important in your opinion, what he believes today, or how someone says he was raised as a child (he tells a different story)?
The TOG
TOG,
I can declare to you right now that I have read the Qu'ran (partially true) and if the Mods did what was correct, they would change my status as a Christian to "No." It would not mean I had not told a lie and it would not mean I still do not live my life by the principals I hold sacred.
A cursory study of Islamic life will demonstrate the principal taught by them to be widely observed by almost all of the Radical Islamics, making it impossible for any outsider to discern them from a Moderate Imslaic believer. The principal I speak of is, "Any lie told for the advancement of Islam will not be held against them by Allah." They might word it differently but there lies the standard.
The "Christian" church Obama attended is shepherded by the Right Reverend Jeremiah Wright that uses four letter words from the pulpit and teaches Total Annihilation of all Caucasians. I suggest to you that Mr., not my president, B. H. Obama is not only not a Christ Believer and follower, he will never, likely be a follower. He violates Christian principals as a matter of routine, striking him out.
The reason it is so difficult for people in the Church to see the truth of this or, for that matter, of anything today is because better than 98% of the Church Membership is and has been demonstrated to be lost people, not saved.
The most common sin in today's Church is, I term it the Churches favorite sin, Adultry. The first time I went to Church I was offered by a couple of the married ladies there. As a teacher that some think good looking, I always had to be careful of my distance, not because of single women. And when I was entertaining Church Officers were forever in the mix Friday and Saturday nights and before my Salvation experience I slept with some Christian women that bought my drinks, drugs and breakfast before going home from the club with me and then, afterwards, they tell me where to hook up with them again... on Sunday Morning, just show up, go home and wait for the phone to ring.
Do I think these women were saved? Nope but they, like Barry, said they are.