Barack Obama Takes on the Christian Right - Update

Bump and Update - I made essentially the same post (see below) on the Blogger News Network. To my amazement when Google News picked it up, it had close to 900 views - the most for one of my posts. Also, many commented and most were very negative. I added my responses. However, the debate was good.

Following is one example:

Comment from seth Date: July 10, 2007, 11:26 am
The bible is nothing I want my children to read. It has the same sketchy background of all other religious books. We can recognize mythology as such, except when we believe it to be absolutely true. The Bible is disgusting, telling you to kill anyone who tries to convert you from christianity. But that’s the old testament, we skip that part. Start Thinking for yourself.

Comment from Dan Date: July 13, 2007, 3:22 pm
Seth, you may not like God, but He lives. Jesus is His son and the only way to salvation - and He lives too. I pray that the Holy Spirit will draw you and your family to the truth. I suggest you read the book “The Case for Christ”. See my June 24th comment above. God Bless.


Take a look at the BNN post and comments and add your comments there (or here) too. Click here. Thanks - Dan
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Barack Obama says that Christianity has been"hijacked" by "so-called leaders of the Christian Right". Read the story about this here.

The truth is that many liberal churches and their leaders have crafted their own brand of Christianity based on popular "feel good" values, not on the Bible.

The "so-called leaders of the Christian Right", as Obama calls them, are being maligned for being faithful to the Bible and traditional Christian values.

Liberal, "so-called leaders of the Christian Left" are generally pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-destroying living embryos for research, pro-euthanasia and against teaching intelligent design and praying in public schools.

Before I started reading and believing the Bible, I might have agreed with many of these liberal "values". But now that I actually have read and believe the Bible, I disagree with all of the same values. The Christian Right leaders didn't tell me what to believe, I merely came to agree with these leaders.

It is more accurate to say that liberal, "so-called leaders of the Christian Left", not Christian Right leaders, are trying to hijack Christianity.

If Barak Obama would look carefully at the polls, he will find that most Americans agree with the traditional values of the Christian Right. If he continues demonizing these same leaders and the voters they represent, he will soon find in the polls that his chances of becoming President are diminishing.