Prayer, Palin, Obama, & Gitmo

Oh, magnify the LORD with me,
And let us exalt His name together.

Psalm 34:3

For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.

Matthew 18:20

Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me, that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you.

Romans 15:30-32

Some have tried to criticize Sarah Palin for: 1) wanting to pray with someone else, and 2) choosing to pray with her daughter Piper instead of with members of the McCain campaign.

I fully support her decision. When I ask someone to pray with me, I want it to be someone whom I feel confident will be praying in agreement with me in faith (not doubt).

Given what Jesus said:

Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:2-4

I would much rather pray with a child who has “childlike faith” than with an adult who believes that evangelical Christians are “Agents of Intolerance“.

Since people are criticizing Palin’s prayer, let’s take a look at a prayer Obama said:

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent.In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

The Adhan is the Islamic call to prayer, and begins with four recitals of the words “Allahu Akbar“. 

The opening lines of that prayer, which Obama recited in Arabic with a first-rate accent, are translated:

Allah is The Greatest.
Allah is The Greatest.
Allah is The Greatest.
Allah is The Greatest.
I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah.
I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

Got that?  Obama confessed with his own mouth, with a first-rate accent, the Arabic words for “I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah” and  “I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah”.

Barack Hussein Obama has proudly confessed the words that convince many Muslims that he is a Muslim.

Barack Hussein Obama claims to be a “committed Christian”, yet has been unwilling to confess with his mouth the words “Jesus is Lord”.

Given Jeremiah Wright’s close relationship with Louis Farrakhan, his promotion of Palestinians against Israel, and other well-known tirades  (“G-d D-mn America!”), it appears that the “church” Obama attended for 20+ years has more in common with the Nation of Islam than it does with Jesus Christ.

I believe that Obama’s faith is the same now as it was on his school registration in Indonesia: ISLAM.  That school was a Christian school, but Obama was specifically registered with religion: Islam.

Obama claims he’s “never been a Muslim”.  Yet I don’t know anyone who has “never been a Muslim” that can (and chooses to) recite the Islamic call to prayer at all, let alone with a first-rate Arabic accent.

Ever heard of Taqiyya?

Anyone can lie and say, “I am a Christian”.  But the Holy Bible, the inerrant Word of God, says that without the Holy Spirit, no one can say, “Jesus is Lord”.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:3

Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 10:32-33

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9

Barack Hussein Obama, with his own mouth, has spoken words praising the god of Mohammed, but has so far refused to speak the words praising the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  He has refused to acknowledge the truth.

Jesus is Lord!

Barack Hussein Obama, can you say those three simple words?  If not, you’re not a Christian. 

It would appear that if Obama wanted someone to pray in agreement with him, he could pray with his “family friend” Bill Ayers, who named his children after Allah and the orphan boy fostered by the Muslim Prophet Muhammad (See the meanings of the names Malik and Zayd). 

Or perhaps Obama would pray with the terrorists that he wants to release from Gitmo onto the streets of the United States.  Perhaps Obama sees them as “fellow travellers” on his “journey”:

But my journey is part of a larger journey – one shared by all who’ve ever sought to apply the values of their faith to our society. It’s a journey that takes us back to our nation’s founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees.

UPDATE: On April 2, 2009 President Barack Hussein Obama bent low to the King of the country which supplied most of the 9/11 terrorists.

White House: Bow? What bow?

Can you handle these truths?

The Ten Commandments: God’s Version vs. the New World Order’s Version

The 10 Commandments given by God almighty to Moses.

“We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.”

-James Madison

The importance of the Ten Commandments to our Constitutional Republic is evidenced by the fact that in the U.S. House of Representatives, Moses is the focal point of the “lawgivers” – the twenty-three marble relief portraits depicting historical figures noted for their work in establishing the principles that underlie American law.

References to God, Moses, crosses and the Bible – references which are plentiful in the real Capitol Building- are noticably absent in the new Capitol Visitor Center.

That’s because the Socialists don’t want people to know the truth about this Christian Nation.

Perhaps they prefer the Ten Commandments of the New World Order – the Georgia Guide Stones – which call for (as the first guideline/principle/commandment):

MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000
IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE

That would be quite an undertaking to reduce the human population from billions to under 500 million.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the World Population at over 6.8 Billion people. 

Reducing the world population from 6.8 Billion to 0.5 Billion would mean exterminating over 92% of the world’s population.

And the “family friend” of our POTUS (“Present” of the United States) and C-in-C (Con in Chief) is a Violent Communist Revoutionary who actively planned for genocide!

Oh, but don’t pay attention to that… he’s just a guy that Obama described as: 

a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

Ayers says he’s “family friends” with Obama.  Obama says ayers is “a guy who lives in my neighborhood… not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.”

Well, how often does Obama exchange ideas with Ayers?  Is Ayers on Obama’s blackberry?

Obama calls himself “a committed Christian”.  Would Obama, if asked about his personal beliefs, endorse the Biblical Ten Commandments and repudiate the Georgia Guidestones?

I don’t think so.

UPDATE.

Blog Sabbatical

Once again, I’ll be away from blogging for a while. I’m not yet sure how long.

I leave you with these links and thoughts:

Obama’s Intentional Destruction of America

“It’s the Marxism, stupid“

The New Party was the creation of the quasi-Marxist Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the radical community organisation ACORN. The Communist Party splinter group Committees of Correspondence (CoC) was also involved. There is documentary evidence that Barack Obama was a “New Party Member”. But where was the Press?

When asked to explain the difference between the views of Barack Obama and Karl Marx, Joe Biden didn’t answer the question or deny that Obama’s views are Marxist… Biden just laughed and said, “Are you joking?” No, we’re not joking.

A lot of us aren’t laughing right now, as every day seems to bring new evidence of Obama’s Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist intentions and his “journey” to “bring an empire to its knees”.

But my journey is part of a larger journey – one shared by all who’ve ever sought to apply the values of their faith to … bring an Empire to its knees.

That “larger journey” is shared by Marxists and Jihadists worldwide.

Forgetting Sovereignty

But by far the dumbest idea is to put the UN in charge of this regime. Not only does it mean an end to sovereignty on trade, manufacturing, energy production, and business in general, but the UN has a horrible record on global trade controls. Does anyone remember the UN Oil-for-Food Program, otherwise known as the largest corruption scandal in human history?

Forgetting 9/11, Forgetting Freedom

Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles Burlingame was the pilot aboard American Airlines Flight 77 that was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, said the renaming of the tower is one more example that the nation is forgetting 9/11.

“If we can’t say the word freedom out loud, God help us,” she said.

“I understand the decision from a marketing point of view. But it saddens me that it’s no longer economically viable to declare who we are.”

The issue of the name change — toward which the PA has been shifting for more than a year — came up at a news conference after the agency signed a lease with its first major tenant.

A Chinese firm, Vantone Industrial Co., will lease six floors. A four-page press release for the lease signing included the name “Freedom Tower” twice — only in parentheses.

The only other tenants so far are the federal and state governments.

“Freedom Tower” was coined by then-Gov. George Pataki, who oversaw the initial designs for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center and wanted a tower to rise a symbolic 1,776 feet at a time of heightened patriotism.

Pataki yesterday bristled at the name change.

“The Freedom Tower is not simply another piece of real estate and not just a name for marketing purposes. In design and name, it is symbolic of our commitment to rise above the attacks of Sept. 11,” he said.

The Comprehensive Argument Against Barack Obama

Exceptionally well-written and documented with primary source video material, the comprehensive argument against Barack Obama was posted at HotAir.com over five months ago. 

It is well worth reviewing now, in light of Obama’s track record since January 20th, 2009.

An Alinsky President

What kind of president thrives on chaos?

A Return to Carternomics?

Old, but relevant. Democrats controlled Congress at the time, but didn’t control the Presidency.

Now, they do.

Is Democratic Tax Bill a Return to Carternomics?
October 29, 2007 12:17 PM ET
James Pethokoukis

“We would actually have for more people higher tax rates than what we had under Jimmy Carter” is the way Lawrence Lindsey, former director of President Bush’s National Economic Council, described to me what might happen if the tax reform bill from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel ever became law…

Obama: He’s Not a Centrist, But He Plays One On TV

As I noted in an earlier post, Obama said:

…let’s go back to the rates that existed back in — during the Clinton era…

Let’s go back to the rate that existed under Ronald Reagan.

By saying “let’s go back to…”, Obama wants you to believe he is following previous precedent.

By invoking both Clinton and Reagan, Obama wants you to believe he is a “centrist”.

Obama may play a centrist on TV, but the reality is that he is farther left than Carter.  Carter allowed you to deduct the full amount of your charitable contributions, so your net tax on charitable contributions was 0%.  Obama wants an unprecedented new 11.6% net tax on charitable contributions made by the very people who give the most to charity.

President	Top Tax Rate	Tax on $100	Deduction Allowed For $100 Charitable Contribution	Tax Credit for Deduction	Net Tax on $100 Charitable Contribution
Carter	70%	$70.00	$100.00	$70.00	$0.00
Reagan	28%	$28.00	$100.00	$28.00	$0.00
Bush 41	28%	$28.00	$100.00	$28.00	$0.00
Clinton	39.6%	$39.60	$100.00	$39.60	$0.00
Bush 43	36%	$36.00	$100.00	$36.00	$0.00
Obama	39.6%	$39.60	$70.71	$28.00	$11.60

Obama is not a centrist. He is farther left than Carter.

Under Obama’s plan, the more money the wealthy give, the more money the government is going to take away.

Someone who makes $1 Million a year, and gives 10% ($100,000) to charity, paid $0 tax on those contributions under Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43. But they would pay $11,600.00 in new taxes under Obama.

Someone who makes $1 Million a year, and gives 20% ($200,000) to charity, paid $0 tax on those contributions under Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43. But they would pay $23,200.00 in new taxes under Obama.

Got that? The person who gives away twice as much money gets “rewarded” by Obama with having to pay twice as much in new “charity taxes”.

Anyone who gives a rip about helping other people should realize that Obama’s plan penalizes generosity and will hurt charities.

Obama’s plan is not fair, and it’s not compassionate. It is cruel and unfair. And Obama, as the Community Organizer Communist Agitator that he is, is trying to stir up class warfare when he lies and says:

In that sense, what it would do is it would equalize — when I give $100, I’d get the same amount of deduction as when some — a bus driver who’s making $50,000 a year, or $40,000 a year, gives that same $100. Right now, he gets 28 percent — he gets to write off 28 percent. I get to write off 39 percent. I don’t think that’s fair.

That’s a lie.

Currently, both the bus driver and the wealthy person get to write off the same amount. They both get to write off 100 percent of their donation. They both pay $0 tax on that donation.

Obama wants to change things from fair to unfair.

Obama wants the bus driver to get to write off 100 percent, while the wealthy person would only be allowed to write of 70.71 percent. Obama wants the bus driver to pay $0 tax on their $100 donation, while the wealthy person pays $11.60 tax on their $100 donation.

That’s not fairness. And Obama is being anything BUT “open, transparent, and honest”.

UPDATE: Democrats and Republicans alike ask:
Will Obama’s Socialist Agenda Be His Undoing?

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Other relevant posts:

The Parable of 10 Men in a Bar

Obama Explains “Spread the Wealth”

Obama’s Communist Global Poverty Act

Is the President above the law?

Is the President above the law?

Of course not.

Can anyone tell me why the President should not have to obey the requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act?

Is anyone up for submitting a Freedom of Information Act for Obama’s I-9 form and the corresponding substantiating documentation?

I doubt Obama ever submitted an I-9 form for his new job, but if not he broke the law. There is no exemption for POTUS in the Immigration Reform and Control Act.