20 top izjava Baracka Obame o Kranstvu i

Bibliji:
#1 to god da smo jednom bili, mi vie nismo Kranska nacija.
#2 Mi se vie ne smatramo Kranskom nacijom.
#3 Koji odlomci Biblije bi trebali voditi nau javnu politiku? Bismo li trebali
koristiti Levitski zakonik, koji sugerira da je ropstvo u redu, i da je odvratno
jesti koljke? Ili bismo trebali posluati Deuteronomiju koja predlae da
kamenujete svoje dijete ako zaluta s puta vjere?
#4 Even those who claim the Bibles inerrancy make distinctions between
Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages the Ten Commandments,
say, or a belief in Christs divinity are central to Christian faith, while
others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate
modern life.
#5 The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the
majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to
gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to
ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling
their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.
#6 From Obamas book, The Audacity of Hope: I am not willing to have
the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent
rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance
coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sexnor
am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line
in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the
Mount.
#7 Obamas response when asked what his definition of sin is:
Being out of alignment with my values.
#8 If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that
he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldnt have
to keep coming to church, would they.
#9 This is something that Im sure Id have serious debates with my
fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion,

including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and

prostelytize. Theres the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people
havent embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that theyre going
to hell.
#10 I find it hard to believe that my God would consign fourfifths of the world to hell. I cant imagine that my God would
allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the
Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. Thats just not
part of my religious makeup.
#11 I dont presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I
feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the
hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.
#12 Ive said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of
some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally
embraced Christianity as far as I know I do not believe she went to
hell.
#13 Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke Gods will
they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is
accessible to people of all faiths.
#14 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: If people find that
controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
#15 You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of
small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and
nothings replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration,
and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said
that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have
not. And its not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or
religion or antipathy to people who arent like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
#16 In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad
Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and
African mythology

#17 On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church,

just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year
celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
#18 We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and
their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much
as our own
#19 All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers
of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear;
when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God
intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews
and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham
to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra (applause) as in
the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon
them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)
#20 I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and
that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are
connected as a people.