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Old 02-06-2015, 10:55 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Exactly!
Read his books.
Seems like he talks a lot about the father he hardly knew (the drunken Kenyan), but not much about his "white side". He also states in one book that he made a conscious decision to be "black" and ignore his "white side", even though he was living at the time with his white grandparents.
But then, it is always possible I am remembering what I read incorrectly.
If so, there are those on here who will joyously point out my errors.
His physical appearance pretty much determined his racial identity. The world would not have seen him as white had he " chosen" to be white.

His mother was " out there".

Half the book was about his grandparents and their influence on his life and values.
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Old 02-06-2015, 10:55 AM
 
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You are joking aren't you?

"brutal, vicious death cult" vs "high horse". Which is the stone and which is the boulder?
Don't you get it ?

Obama couldn't bring himself to put ISIL and Islam or Muhammad or Allah in the same sentence. Yet, no hesitation when twice recounting bad acts 'in the name of Christ.'
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Old 02-06-2015, 11:02 AM
 
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Funny thing about this forum. At a time when all good people should be condemning the act of Genocide on all religions by extremist muslim terrorist, many folk instead choose to criticize Christianity.
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Old 02-06-2015, 11:07 AM
 
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Christain's hands are not clean by any stretch of the imagination. While the vast majority of modern Christians would never dream of carrying out the kind of acts perpetrated by ISIS and groups like them. Christianity is not that far removed from a time when they would and did.

There are parts of the world where radical Islamic leaders can hold vast sway over a great many people. Most Christian Nations have wealth and an educational system in place that eliminates that threat. When you look at less affluent Christian nations you see more radical Christian ideology come to the fore. Just look at the killing and imprisonment of gays in Uganda.
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Old 02-06-2015, 11:17 AM
 
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So was Moses.
No one is killing people in Moses name in recent times, and if they did they should be called on it.
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Old 02-06-2015, 11:34 AM
 
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He's comparing a group's current actions to that of another group's actions in the dark ages. If anything it actually highlights just how backasswards Islam is. Way to go.
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Old 02-06-2015, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Alameda, CA
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Don't you get it ?

Obama couldn't bring himself to put ISIL and Islam or Muhammad or Allah in the same sentence. Yet, no hesitation when twice recounting bad acts 'in the name of Christ.'
I get it. Obama wasn't saying that Jesus Christ promoted these actions, but that doesn't stop some Christians from claiming that Jesus Christ would approve of their inhuman acts. Those Christians took on the mantle of their religion, just as ISIL does. In my opinion, both are mistaken.
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Old 02-06-2015, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Alameda, CA
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Not hundreds of years ago, right now, today.



Tens of thousands of Muslims flee Christian militias in Central African Republic - The Washington Post



At the airport, Muhammad Abdirahman, 62, was waiting to leave. His village, Jbawi, had been burned down by the anti-balaka and nearly everyone was dead, he said. Fortunately, he had left with his wife and 12 children before the massacre, and arrived at the airport last week. Originally from Chad, he has lived here for the past 50 years.
“I don’t even know Chad,” he said. “But what can I do? If I stay, the Christians will use every opportunity to kill me and my family.”

These types of attacks need to be confronted no matter who is doing them or why they think they are justified.
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Old 02-06-2015, 11:57 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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Obama hates America, and his sole goal as president is to make it pay for what he deems as it's discretions on the world stage. He wants to redistribute the wealth and power that, as he sees it, America stole.

Watch the Obama's America 2016 movie that came out in 2012 I believe it was.

It's all there.
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Old 02-06-2015, 12:31 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Can't separate the two. Same Bible.

If Jesus is God, then he was the same God in the Old Testament too.

Damn near every Bible has both books in the same binder....Christian preachers quote scripture from both books equally. Christians believe the Old Testament to be a work of God.

So..no..

The Crusades happened for the very reasons we are at war with Islam today.
Christians got tired of being massacred for not believing in a religion of death and hate.
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