This week, The Atlantic published a piece titled Democrats Have a Religion Problem. The article focused on a conversation with a former member of Obama’s campaign staff, but his interview isn’t what many found shocking. Instead, it’s the lack of religious knowledge that permeated Obama’s staff.
There aren’t many people like Michael Wear in today’s Democratic Party. The former director of Barack Obama’s 2012 faith-outreach efforts is a theologically conservative evangelical Christian. He is opposed to both abortion and same-sex marriage, although he would argue that those are primarily theological positions, and other issues, including poverty and immigration, are also important to his faith.
During his time working for Obama, Wear was often alone in many of his views, he writes in his new book, Reclaiming Hope. He helped with faith-outreach strategies for Obama’s 2008 campaign, but was surprised when some state-level officials decided not to pursue this kind of engagement: “Sometimes—as I came to understand the more I worked in politics—a person’s reaction to religious ideas is not ideological at all, but personal,” he writes.
[…]Some of his colleagues also didn’t understand his work, he writes. He once drafted a faith-outreach fact sheet describing Obama’s views on poverty, titling it “Economic Fairness and the Least of These,” a reference to a famous teaching from Jesus in the Bible. Another staffer repeatedly deleted “the least of these,” commenting, “Is this a typo? It doesn’t make any sense to me. Who/what are ‘these’?”
The title was a reference to Matthew 25:40, “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!”
The fact that his staff didn’t understand that he was making religious reference is probably why the fact sheet was made in the first place. These Democrat operatives know nothing about religion, but they think they can court the religious voter.
Source: The Atlantic
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Samuel Johnson
Obama, raised with muslim father, step-father in muslim Indonesian schools. When exactly did Obama become a Christian…the same time he mysteriously and suddenly got American citizenship?
You can’t fault a political party because one member doesn’t read the Bible – ANY political party!
This POTUS is not and never was a Christian. He is a muslim with teachings from Rev. Wright who hates this country and what it stands for This is the extent of dumbama’s Christian teaching. He is a muslim as he has shown time and time again and we know muslims want to make us an Islamic state or kill us. So much for Christian ideals.
I will not do next pages.
Like any of them read it!
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