America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President

[saved]

1. Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith:

April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who aren't like them” 1


February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011. 2


April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his speech. 3


May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. 4


April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three. 5


October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about “the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions. 6


November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal law. 7


January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court. 8


February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress. 9


April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring. 10


August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception. 11


November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. 12
November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving message. 13


December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries' religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. 14


January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis. 15


February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion. 16
2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of Biblical faith:

June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. 17


August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except America). 18


September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains. 19


September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.” 20


November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity. 21


November 2011 – The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans. 22


February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian. 23


February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei). 24


February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read. 25


3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:

January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations. 26


January 2009 – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional. 27


March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. 28


March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. 29


March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations. 30


May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions. 31

He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. 32


May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal” activities. 33


July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. 34


September 16, 2009 – The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual “equality.” 35


July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion. 36


August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs. 37


September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. 38


February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act. 39


March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls. 40


July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778. 41


September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. 42


October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion. 43
4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:

May 2009 – While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan. 44


April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community. 45


April 2010 – The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc. 46


August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity. 47


August 2010 – Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location. 48


2010 – While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha. 49


October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House. 50


February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, 51 but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do. 52


Many of these actions are literally unprecedented – this is the first time they have happened in four centuries of American history. The hostility of President Obama toward Biblical faith and values is without equal from any previous American president.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President

Hey.....you prefer.....

....Hostility is TAUGHT....

....in our schools?????

 

[zeke]

saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who aren't like them

” Truth hurts?

Many of these actions are literally unprecedented – this is the first time they have happened in four centuries of American history. The hostility of President Obama toward Biblical faith and values is without equal from any previous American president.

Thank God.

I gave up on the "Christian" faith long ago. To much hypocrisy and hate. Glad to see the President is trying to be a President to all faiths. Instead of just the Christian faith.

When Christian churches lose their most precious ruling. You know, the tax exempt one, and when people are forcefully jailed for attending Christian church's and when supposed Christian men don't wield all the power of the USA, come talk about the war on the Christian religion.

But remember; Christians have a history of having martyr's and you to could be one. Have at it.

 

[VaYank5150]

To: Saved....I refuse to copy your pity post, so I will simply ask this question: "Ummm....SO?"

 

[DaGoose]

America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President????? REALLY?????

Let's look at some Thomas Jefferson quotes......

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise ... without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.

Positive Atheism's Big List of Thomas Jefferson Quotations

 

[Sallow]

Man you theocrats are on overdrive this election cycle.

 

[Decepticon]

So Christians in the US are butthurt over perceived slights?

WELL WHOOP DE FUCKING DOO!
NO ONE CARES what Fake Christians are offended at.

 

[zeke]

Let's look at some Thomas Jefferson quotes......

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise ... without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

ouch!!!! That is gonna leave a mark. Hate it when a seemingly good rant gets derailed like that. Nice job.

 

[zeke]

And from T Jefferson no less. What a smart man he was.

 

[Peach]

America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President????? REALLY?????

Let's look at some Thomas Jefferson quotes......

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise ... without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.

Positive Atheism's Big List of Thomas Jefferson Quotations

I would pick Jefferson also as anti ORGANIZED religion.

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says purt soon Obama gonna have us all readin' the Quran an' eatin falafa...

Congressman: There is a War on Religious Belief in Military
May 17, 2012 - Military chaplains and service members opposed to same-sex marriage are coming under attack in the military, according to Republican lawmakers and a chaplain advocacy group.

The Chaplain Alliance For Religious Liberty said there is an effort under way to silence, and in some cases punish, those opposed to gay marriage. The allegations surfaced after the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. “If you are supportive of same sex marriage, you can speak boldly,” said Ron Crews, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance. “But if you are opposed, you are silenced.”

Crews is one of 19 individuals to write a letter to the House Armed Services Committee urging lawmakers to protect the religious liberties of chaplains and service members. “Until Congress acts decisively, efforts to silence the voices of our military chaplains of all faiths and backgrounds will likely continue well into the future,” the letter read. “It is time that Congress secures the rights of all chaplains, once and for all, instead of allowing those that do not subscribe to the orthodoxy of the day to be unconstitutionally silenced.”

The Pentagon disputed those assertions. In a statement to Fox News they said chaplains are not required to participate or officiate in any private ceremony that might conflict with their religious or personal beliefs. They also denied any service members have been punished for opposing gay marriage. “In general, as we have reinforced in training across the force, DADT Repeal is not about changing attitudes but rather about reinforcing behavior that treats everyone with dignity and respect,” the spokesman said. George Wright, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, said in a statement to Fox News “the religious freedoms of Army chaplains are already well protected in Army policy and regulations.”

Crews said they know of dozens of instances where military personnel have come under fire. He said one chaplain was told that if he could not support DADT he should resign his commission. “Some of these chaplains have in fact had their careers impacted,” he told Fox News. “They’ve been punished. Right now, if you are opposed to this policy you’re not seen as a team player.

An amendment to the 2013 defense authorization bill could change that. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), protects religious freedom of military chaplains and service members opposed to same-sex marriage. Akin said he’s received a number of complaints about people of religious faith concerned about what they perceive to be attacks on Christianity. “There is a war on religious belief in the military,” Akin told Fox News. Akin said he was aware of chaplains who’ve come under fire for their opposition. “That’s the point (of the amendment),” he said. “To prevent further reprisals in the future.” “It’s frightening,” Crews said. “This is just another example of this administration’s push against religious liberty.”

Source

 

[SniperFire]

Let's look at some Thomas Jefferson quotes......

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise ... without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

ouch!!!! That is gonna leave a mark. Hate it when a seemingly good rant gets derailed like that. Nice job.

Jefferson can be quoted to support about any side of any issue you want. :


'To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.

--Letter to Benjamin Rush (12 April 1803)

 

[Salt Jones]

Uncle Ferd says purt soon Obama gonna have us all readin' the Quran an' eatin falafa...

Congressman: There is a War on Religious Belief in Military
May 17, 2012 - Military chaplains and service members opposed to same-sex marriage are coming under attack in the military, according to Republican lawmakers and a chaplain advocacy group.

The Chaplain Alliance For Religious Liberty said there is an effort under way to silence, and in some cases punish, those opposed to gay marriage. The allegations surfaced after the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. “If you are supportive of same sex marriage, you can speak boldly,” said Ron Crews, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance. “But if you are opposed, you are silenced.”

Crews is one of 19 individuals to write a letter to the House Armed Services Committee urging lawmakers to protect the religious liberties of chaplains and service members. “Until Congress acts decisively, efforts to silence the voices of our military chaplains of all faiths and backgrounds will likely continue well into the future,” the letter read. “It is time that Congress secures the rights of all chaplains, once and for all, instead of allowing those that do not subscribe to the orthodoxy of the day to be unconstitutionally silenced.”

The Pentagon disputed those assertions. In a statement to Fox News they said chaplains are not required to participate or officiate in any private ceremony that might conflict with their religious or personal beliefs. They also denied any service members have been punished for opposing gay marriage. “In general, as we have reinforced in training across the force, DADT Repeal is not about changing attitudes but rather about reinforcing behavior that treats everyone with dignity and respect,” the spokesman said. George Wright, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, said in a statement to Fox News “the religious freedoms of Army chaplains are already well protected in Army policy and regulations.”

Crews said they know of dozens of instances where military personnel have come under fire. He said one chaplain was told that if he could not support DADT he should resign his commission. “Some of these chaplains have in fact had their careers impacted,” he told Fox News. “They’ve been punished. Right now, if you are opposed to this policy you’re not seen as a team player.

An amendment to the 2013 defense authorization bill could change that. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), protects religious freedom of military chaplains and service members opposed to same-sex marriage. Akin said he’s received a number of complaints about people of religious faith concerned about what they perceive to be attacks on Christianity. “There is a war on religious belief in the military,” Akin told Fox News. Akin said he was aware of chaplains who’ve come under fire for their opposition. “That’s the point (of the amendment),” he said. “To prevent further reprisals in the future.” “It’s frightening,” Crews said. “This is just another example of this administration’s push against religious liberty.”

Source

If you can't follow the rules then get out. That has been the military rule since day one.

 

[Cowman]

NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS OF PERSECUTION.

We all know the reality of the situation regarding Christians in this country.

 

[tererun]

So in what way has he prevented anyone from practicing their faith for themselves, and in what way has he stopped anyone from abiding by christian rules for themselves? About the only thing i see obama saying is you cannot impose christianity on non-christians, but you are perfectly capable of practicing your religion yourself with no one stopping you. The only thing that is changing is you are having trouble forcing others to live by christian rules and that is part of free will and freedom.

I would also like to point out something about freedom. you have every right to believe in something completely stupid, but you do not have the right to avoid the consequences of being perceived as stupid for your beliefs.

I also find it funny that you would claim a devout christian is somehow trying to keep others from being christian purposefully. Christians turn people off accidentally all the time, but it makes no sense that obama is trying to stop people from participating and believing in his religion.

 

[JoeB131]

Not seeing a problem with this.

Besides the rest beign typical stuff the government does under every president because someone remembers, "Oh, yeah, Non-Establishment clause", let's talk about the "Bitterly Clinging" statement.

I think that was very clumsily said, but it has a truth to it. White Christian America sees itself pummelled on all sides by globalism, by it's demographic decline, by changes in the values, and so on. But instead of dealing with change, they cling to what they take as a constant.

Kind of like a baby clinging to a security blanket.

 

[rdean]

I'm trying to find the outrage among the GOP for cutting daycare, slashing money for woman's health, cutting school lunches, stepping on the backs of the poor and the general feeling of "if you feed the poor they'll breed".

Instead, they believe their "rights" are being taken away. Only there is nothing listed that actually affects any of them. "Gay marriage"? Do most of these white wingers even know someone who is gay?

Love the one on "stem cell" research. Have you asked "Mitt"?

 

[naturegirl]

Sad day indeed when a man that Claims to be a Christian decides to suddenly become "religiously correct". A true Christian will spread the word, embrace his beliefs and say nothing instead of insult another. You shouldn't renounce your own beliefs to appease others, you say nothing instead.

His religious/political correctness will cost him some votes, not that he cares. He's got his base and now he just wants to energize them. Acorn will be knocking on your door soon.

 

[JoeB131]

Sad day indeed when a man that Claims to be a Christian decides to suddenly become "religiously correct". A true Christian will spread the word, embrace his beliefs and say nothing instead of insult another. You shouldn't renounce your own beliefs to appease others, you say nothing instead.

His religious/political correctness will cost him some votes, not that he cares. He's got his base and now he just wants to energize them. Acorn will be knocking on your door soon.

ACORN Is hiding under your bed...

Frankly, I look at this laundry list of complaints, and most of them are actually upholding the constitution.

They did explain the establishment clause to you folks, right?

 

[Old Rocks]

Let's look at some Thomas Jefferson quotes......

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise ... without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

ouch!!!! That is gonna leave a mark. Hate it when a seemingly good rant gets derailed like that. Nice job.

Jefferson can be quoted to support about any side of any issue you want. :


'To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.

--Letter to Benjamin Rush (12 April 1803)

LOL. Ever read or even know what the Jeffersonian Bible is?