Obama a Christian? No, Say Two-Thirds of Americans

In the latest Gallup poll, 66% of Americans say that President Obama is either a Muslim, someone of no faith at all, or they just can't tell. Only 34% say that he's a Christian -- most likely of a generic sort, rather than a devotee of a denomination.

For background, read Is Obama Christian? Few Think So: Poll and also read Boston Globe Explores Obama as Fake Christian as well as Obamas' Rare Church Attendance is Easter

UPDATE 5/2/13: President Obama Prays to an Unknown God

UPDATE 2/6/14: President Obama, Hypocrite in Chief, Holds Prayer Breakfast

-- From "Poll: Most Americans do not identify Obama as Christian" by Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times 6/23/12

The poll released Friday . . . is striking, because few presidents have spoken and written as much about their faith as Obama. . . . He uses Christian language and imagery often in speeches.

[Apparently] a certain percentage of the populace knows that Obama professes a Christian faith but doesn't believe him.

Obama's father was born into a Muslim family in Kenya, but was an atheist by the time Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, according to the president's accounts. Obama has written that he was not raised in a religious household, but converted to Christianity as an adult, in part through [the heretical Rev. Jeremiah] Wright's influence.

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From "Gallup Poll: 44% don't know Obama's religion" by David Jackson, USA TODAY 6/25/12

Gallup notes that Americans are more likely to know the religion of Republican presidential Mitt Romney, "with most Americans correctly saying Romney is a Mormon and a smaller 33% saying they don't know."

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From "Poll: Americans still have trouble naming Obama’s religion" posted at The Capitol Column 6/24/12

This Gallup poll is not the only survey in the past several years to reveal that many Americans still aren’t sure what religion Mr. Obama practices. A 2010 Pew Research Center survey found that nearly one in five Americans say the president is a Muslim.

A quick analysis of Pew surveys from 2008 through 2010 reveals that a growing number of Americans think Mr. Obama is a Muslim. In March 2008, 12 percent of Americans said he is a Muslim, but two years later that number had grown to 18 percent.

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From "Gallup: 44% Don’t Know Obama’s Religion; 11% Say He’s Muslim; 8% Say He Has None" by Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com 6/23/12

The group of those who say they do not know Obama’s religion crosses party lines, with 47 percent of Republicans saying they don’t know, 46 percent of Independents saying they don’t know, and 36 percent of Democrats saying they don’t know.

The group of those who say Obama is a Muslim also crosses party lines, with 18 percent of Republicans saying he is a Muslim, 12 percent of Independents, and 3 percent of Democrats.

Gallup’s analysis of its own poll incorrectly says that “[j]ust 34 percent of Americans correctly say U.S. President Barack Obama is a Christian”—including 20 percent who generically say he is a “Christian,” 7 percent who say he is a “Protestant,” 4 percent who say he is a “Baptist,” 2 percent who say he belongs to the United Church of Christ, and 1 percent who say he is a Methodist.

Independents were more likely than Republicans or Democrats to believe that Obama was of “no religion” or “none.” Ten percent of Independents said that was their understanding, compared 7 percent of Republicans and 6 percent of Democrats.

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From "Poll: Many Americans Don't Know Obama Is Christian" by Audrey Barrick, Christian Post Reporter 6/23/12

The Obamas do not currently belong to any church but attend various churches, such as St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House, on a few occasions.

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Also read President Obama Reads Easter Message Speech as well as Obama on Jihad: Islam is a Great Religion

To read the full Gallup Poll, CLICK HERE

Obamas' Rare Church Attendance is Easter

After a round of golf Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base . . . the commander-in-chief attended Sunday Easter services with the first family at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.

UPDATE 4/25/11: No White House Easter proclamation made (unlike proclamations for Ramadan, Eid al Fitr, Eid al Adha, Hajj and Earth Day --
see video at bottom)

UPDATE 4/1/13: Obama's Apostate Easter Sermon at D.C. ECUSA

UPDATE 4/6/12: President Obama Reads Easter Message Speech

UPDATE 4/19/11: Obama's Easter Re-election Campaign

UPDATE 4/8/12: Obamas' church attendance increases as election approaches

UPDATE 8/3/11: Obama Ramadan Proclamation Low-key, Having Missed Easter

UPDATE 4/25/11 (video) Obamas' Easter Pastor says America is racist likening all conservatives to KKK:


UPDATE 7/17/11 BREAKING NEWS: Obamas attend church!

-- From "Obama Golfs, Goes To Church On Easter" by NewsCore 4/24/11

The president, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia received a standing ovation as they entered the church, one of the oldest African-American congregations in the city.

Dressed in their Easter Sunday best, the Obamas sang along with the rest of the 3,000-member strong congregation and a live band.

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From "Obama attends Easter church services in D.C." by David Jackson, USA TODAY 4/24/11

The Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith, the senior minister, told the First Family that parishioners are praying for them.

Another speaker, name unknown, suggested that some of the prayers include Obama's re-election next year.

"Lord, they are going to need you for next six years," the speaker said.

From "First Family Attends Easter Service" by ABC News Radio 4/24/11

Prior to Sunday’s church attendance, the last time the Obamas attended service was in January just before Martin Luther King Day at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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From "Obama, family attend Easter services at historic Shiloh Baptist Church near White House" by The Associated Press 4/24/11

Last Easter, the Obamas worshipped at a historically black Methodist church in a different part of the city. In 2009, Obama visited St. John’s Church across Lafayette Square from the White House, the pale yellow place of worship that other presidents have favored over the years.

Attending a National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Obama said his faith has deepened during his two years in the White House and he urged members of Congress to rely on their own faith to build a spirit of civility in Washington. He said that at a time of bitter partisanship, lawmakers must find a way to be open to the ideas of others, while staying true to their core principles.

“I pray that God will show me and all of us the limits of our understanding and open our ears and our hearts to our brothers and sisters with different points of view, that such reminders of our shared hopes and our shared dreams and our shared limitations as children of God will reveal a way forward that we can travel together,” the president said.

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Also read/view Rev. Franklin Graham comments on President Obama's Christianity

Is Obama Christian? Few Think So: Poll

The Los Angeles Times reports: Nearly four years after he entered the nation's political scene in a significant way . . . nearly half of Barack Obama's countrymen are unaware of what religion their president is.

Note: The poll was taken BEFORE the President's recent comments about the Ground Zero mosque.

UPDATE 8/11/11: Obama Honors 9/11 Muslim Heroes at White House

UPDATE 2/3/11: Obama Declares He's Christian, Again

UPDATE 8/20/10: The Rev. Franklin Graham Says President Obama was 'Born a Muslim'



-- From "19 months in, a few Americans think Obama is Muslim, but nearly half don't know what he is" posted at Los Angeles Times 8/19/10

It's interesting, certainly timely and politically potent that a small but growing number of Americans believes that Barack Obama is a Muslim, even before his controversial recent support of a new mosque near New York's ground zero.

But a plurality of Americans -- 43% -- currently say they do not know his religious faith. That number is . . . up from 34% in just one year.

So what religion is Obama and why the confusion?

Until the 2008 Democratic primary season and his reluctant but very public break with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who married Obama and baptized his daughters, Obama was a 20-year member of Chicago's Trinity United Church. He said he was unfamiliar with Wright's racist and anti-Semitic sermons, which showed up on numerous widely-viewed videotapes.

Since the Wright break, Obama has been unaffiliated with any specific faith . . .

Upon election, Obama said he and his family would join a Washington church; they have visited some. But joined none.

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From "Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim" by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press 8/19/10

The impression that Obama is a Muslim is also more widespread today among independents – 18% say this today, up from 10% in 2009. There has been virtually no change in the share of Democrats who say Obama is a Muslim (10% today, 7% in 2009). But even among Democrats, fewer than half (46%) now identify his religion as Christian, down from 55% last year.

The survey also finds some discomfort with the idea that Obama relies a great deal on his faith when making policy decisions, especially compared with Bush in 2004. Among those who say that Obama relies on his religion a great deal when making policy decisions, 50% say he relies on his beliefs the right amount while 39% say that Obama relies on his faith too much.

In 2004, by contrast, the balance of opinion was much more positive for Bush; 63% of those who said he relied on his beliefs when making policy said this was appropriate while 27% said he relied on his beliefs too much.

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Read also (previous articles):

Boston Globe Explores Obama as Fake Christian

Obama's 'Pluralistic Christian' Reign?

Obama's Base Support is the Unchurched (barely)

Obama Celebrates Homosexuals, Eggs as Easter

Easter Event at White House Avoids Christians

Boston Globe Explores Obama as Fake Christian

"You can’t be using the church just to get elected and then push the church to the side," said the Rev. Wilfredo De Jesus, a prominent Chicago pastor who had campaigned for Obama among Hispanic evangelicals. . . . "If the president says he’s Christian, then in his narrative, and in his speeches and in his life, that should be displayed."

His Kenyan father had been raised Muslim but was an atheist by the time Obama was born. His mother, whose ancestors were Methodist and Baptist, was nonpracticing.

-- From "Obama’s spiritual life takes more private turn" by Ariel Sabar, Boston Globe Correspondent 2/22/10

He named a best-selling book after [his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s] sermon and was outspoken as a candidate about the value of faith in public life. He infused stump speeches with phrases like "I am my brother’s keeper," and made his journey to Christianity a central theme of the life story he shared with voters.

Obama’s courtship of religious groups in the 2008 race - the most extensive ever by a Democratic candidate for president - paid off on Election Day with strong support among liberal and moderate religious voters. He won 54 percent of the Catholic vote, a stark reversal from four years earlier, when Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, himself Catholic, lost the same group to Bush.

But since President Obama took office a year ago, his faith has largely receded from public view. He has attended church in the capital only four times, and worshiped half a dozen times at a secluded Camp David chapel. He prays privately, reads a "daily devotional" that aides send to his BlackBerry, and talks to pastors by phone, but seldom frames policies in spiritual terms.

But the shift has drawn notice from some religious leaders and political analysts, who say it opens Obama to questions of sincerity and threatens his support among the religious voters his campaign helped peel away from the Republican Party.

A poll last August by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life indicated that the proportion of Americans who saw the Democratic Party as friendly to religion had dropped to Bush-era levels, at 29 percent, after peaking at 38 percent at the height of the Obama campaign a year earlier.

Analysts say that another reason for Obama’s reticence [to appear Christian] may be the sheer number of crises in his first year in office and that a sharper public focus on faith risks becoming a divisive distraction.

"We have a recession, we have the health care agenda - Obama has taken on so much, why add one more thing, especially one that you can’t legislate on?" said Professor Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College.

"It’s only by being part of a church community that he’s going to get his own faith grounded," said Bruce Wall, pastor of Global Ministries Christian Church, in Dorchester. "George Bush did not hide his faith. He was a man of prayer, whether you supported him or not."

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Obama Ever-changing on Same-sex 'Marriage'

In 1996, Barack Obama favored same-sex 'marriage' but in 2004 he opposed it on religious grounds (yet his 'church' favors it). Then in 2008 he opposed same-sex 'marriage' while campaigning for the presidency (favoring California's Prop 8), but then after being elected, he opposed Prop 8, and now favors repealing the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.

UPDATE 10/28/10: Obama says his position on same-sex 'marriage' is evolving (again)

UPDATE 1/26/11: White House won't clarify President's position on same-sex 'marriage'

UPDATE 6/17/11: Obama spokesman challenged by far left on 1996 questionnaire (video):


-- From "Obama elusive on about-face on same-sex marriage" by Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer 2/17/10

He is far from unique among presidents in changing positions he held before his election. But presidents usually attribute their turnabouts to external events or congressional resistance.

Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, [the state's largest gay rights group,] dismissed the president's shifting stance as "pure politics."

"When he was running for office in Chicago and wanted strong support from the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community, he made it clear he supported full equality," Kors said. "Since he has continued to seek higher office, he has changed his position for the worse.

"It's especially appalling that he is citing his religious beliefs as grounds for his public government position on the civil marriage issue because he knows better," Kors said.

Obama attended the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 20 years and has said he found his faith there. He resigned in May 2008 during an uproar over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons that labeled the United States a racist, warmongering nation.

In 2005, the United Church of Christ's governing General Synod passed a resolution endorsing "equal marriage rights for couples regardless of gender." The church, with 1.1 million members, is the largest U.S. denomination to support same-sex marriage.

Since becoming president, Obama has attended services at several Washington churches but has not joined one. Asked about the president's current affiliation, the White House press office described him as a "committed Christian" who prays daily.

The White House did not reply to questions about how Obama's religious interpretation of marriage might have changed over the years.

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Obama Skirts God Almighty at Prayer Breakfast

In the absence of visible faith from the President, White House officials and mainstream media rush to display Obama as "a believer" -- but in what?

-- From "At National Prayer Breakfast, Obama warns against 'erosion of civility'" by Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post Staff Writer 2/4/10

President Obama bemoaned the "erosion of civility" in the nation's political debate Thursday, telling an audience at the National Prayer Breakfast that there is a growing sense that "something is broken" in Washington.

Obama contrasted the sense of duty and service summoned in response to disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti with the seeming inability of the nation's policymakers to answer "the slow-moving tragedies of children without food and men without shelter and families without health care."

The president criticized a political culture where disagreement on policy quickly morphs into questioning one another's motives. Obama, a Christian who was born in Hawaii, alluded to the undercurrent of allegations that he is actually a Muslim who was born outside the United States, saying, "I am the first to confess that I am not always right. . . . But surely, you can question my policies without questioning my faith, or, for that matter, my citizenship,"

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From "Obama's spirituality is largely private, but it's influential, advisers say" by Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post Staff Writer 2/4/10

Every morning, sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m., a short religious passage comes across President Obama's BlackBerry, sent by one of his aides.

At other moments, Obama prays privately, his advisers said. And when he takes his family to Camp David on the weekends, a Navy chaplain ministers to them, with the daughters attending a form of Sunday school there.

More than a year into his presidency, Obama has not chosen a church in Washington, and has attended services just four times. No single figure has assumed the role of spiritual adviser -- publicly, at least -- or filled the vacancy created when Obama disavowed his former Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

Yet close advisers to the president said the role of faith, while subtle, has been noticeable in and around the Obama White House. One senior official described the president as "a prayerful guy." Another said that Obama has consulted religious leaders less often for his own personal guidance than for help walking through major public decisions -- such as during the Afghanistan review process, when he sought advice on the ethical implications of war.

A third senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, said Obama's private religious beliefs have helped sustain his temperament during trying times in office. "Part of that even temperament comes from his faith which is an important component," Jarrett said. Asked why the public did not hear much about his faith during his first year in office, she nodded and said, "He's had a lot on his plate."

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View the entire 'prayer' breakfast via this C-Span link.

First Family (Church) Homeless for Christmas

Unlike virtually every past White House family, the Obamas have been absent a church home (since abandoning Chicago's Rev. Jeremiah Wright)

UPDATE 12/27/10: Obama family makes rare appearance in church Sunday

-- From "No Churchgoing Christmas for the First Family" by Amy Sullivan, Time Magazine 12/23/09

Church, in fact, has been a surprisingly tough issue for the Obamas. They resigned their membership with Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 2008 after Obama renounced the church's controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. And while the First Family intended to find a local church to attend when they moved to Washington, concerns about crowds and displacing regular worshippers has prevented them from finding a new religious home during their first year here.

The Obamas have attended Sunday services in Washington three times this year — once at the predominantly African-American 19th Street Baptist Church, and twice at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House.

The Obamas have celebrated Christmas in Hawaii, where the President grew up, nearly every year since the girls were born. But while Obama can still visit his favorite shaved ice joint and body-surfing spots, he doesn't have a childhood church home to attend. His mother wasn't a churchgoer, and Obama writes in "Dreams of My Father" that his grandparents took him to church infrequently.

As a child, Obama occasionally attended Sunday school classes at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, and his family held a memorial service there for his grandmother last Christmas. Conservative critics were quick to point out that the First Unitarian Church has a controversial history — in 1969, the church offered sanctuary to servicemen who refused to go to Vietnam. The refuge was brief, however, as military police invaded church grounds to arrest the soldiers.

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Media Bias Against Gov. Palin's Christianity

From "Media accused of creating controversy over Palin's faith" by Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 9/8/2008

A conservative media analyst points out that it took the wire services and major television networks a year to discover who Reverend Jeremiah Wright was -- yet only 48 hours to begin running "sneering pieces" about Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's religion. Tim Graham says that shows a glaring double standard.

The Associated Press has written an article claiming that Governor Palin's biography for the National Governor's Association "obscures" her "deep roots in Pentecostalism." According to the AP, Pentecostalism is "a spirit-filled Christian tradition that is one of the fastest growing in the world" and "often derided by outsiders and Bible-believers alike." (Read commentary on the AP report)

Although Palin attended a Pentecostal Assemblies of God church up until six years ago, she is currently a member of Wasilla Bible Church, an independent evangelical congregation.

Tim Graham of the Media Research Center says he finds it strange to see secular reporters trying to report on Sarah Palin's religious beliefs "when they don't seem to have any" themselves.

"For them to sort of suggest that Sarah Palin is an inauthentic Christian, that the churches she's belonged to are derided by Bible-believers -- it reads like opposition research; it doesn't read like news from a wire service," he remarks.

Graham says many Democrats in the media are still upset about the Jeremiah Wright story and are trying to "fictionalize a Jeremiah Wright scenario" in Palin's life. "You've already seen these leaked videos of Sarah Palin talking about how our soldiers are hopefully on a mission from God," he notes. "That is the sort of language that scares secular reporters and doesn't really bother Christians at all."

The first media attack on Palin's faith was launched by NBC News, which criticized her for once saying that the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq is a "task that is from God."

'Traditional Black Churches' Criticized as Homophobic by Obama

-- From "Obama Praised Wright, Criticized Traditional Black Churches on Homosexuality" by Penny Starr, CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer 5/29/08

(CNSNews.com) - In an Apr. 10 interview with The Advocate magazine, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said "homophobic" messages are coming from the pulpits of black churches because blacks attend church more regularly than other people and interpret the Bible more traditionally. In the same interview, Obama praised the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor and long-time spiritual adviser, for being on the right side of the homosexual debate.

"There's plenty of homophobia to go around, but you have a unique perspective into the African-American community," Kerry Eleveld, news editor of The Advocate, a homosexual publication, said to Obama, during the interview.

"I don't think it's worse than in the white community," Obama replied. "I think that the difference has to do with the fact that the African-American community is more churched and most African-American churches are still fairly traditional in their interpretations of Scripture."

"And so from the pulpit or in sermons you still hear homophobic attitudes expressed," said Obama. "And since African-American ministers are often the most prominent figures in the African-American community, those attitudes get magnified or amplified a little bit more than in other communities."

"I mean, ironically, my biggest ... the biggest political news surrounding me over the last three weeks has been Reverend Wright, who offended a whole huge constituency with some of his statements but has been very good on gay and lesbian issues," Obama said. "I mean he's one of the leaders in the African-American community of embracing, speaking out against homophobia, and talking about the importance of AIDS."

In an essay entitled "What do I tell my Children?" that was published in the August 2007 issue of Trinity United Church of Christ's Trumpet Magazine, Wright criticized "black evangelism."
"My grandson, Jeremiah, has already run head-on into the contradiction called Christianity in his twenty-one years of life," Wright wrote. "He has seen the racism of Christianity that has produced slave castles and white supremacy. He has also seen the ignorance calling itself 'Black Evangelism' which produces a religion of hatred, gay bashing and heterosexism."

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Wright is Wrong

"Christians should oppose Wright, not because of his statements against the country...but because he is the prophet of a false Gospel."

By James Pittman

How does a Christian respond about the Jeremiah Wright issue? There seem to be four issues on the table that those who call themselves Christians must consider. Wright put forth three points of view that seem to contradict the bible. He touches upon the issues of The Black church and it's Liberation Theology, views on the God of the bible, and the bible itself.

Wright's concept of a "black church" seems to be wrong on many bases. Wright began the speech at the Press Club by saying that the recent attacks have not been on him, but instead “an attack on the black church.” What does that mean? What is the "black church," as opposed to the church of which the bible speaks? When Wright speaks of the African-American church no longer being "invisible” and “the prophetic theology of the black church,” it seems that he is speaking of some “church” that is different than the one that emerged in the Book of Acts as recorded in the bible.

This "black church" has a theology that he terms “liberation theology” which began gaining currency in Latin America in the 1960's. He stated, “Liberation theology started in and started from a different place. It started from the vantage point of the oppressed.” In saying that, Rev. Wright clearly admits that his theology started from some place other than with the apostles and the recorded events in the Book of Acts. This theology started from the vantage point of man, rather than the vantage point of God. He later tries to merge this Liberation Theology with the church of the bible by stating that he “traced the theology of the black church back to the prophets in the Hebrew bible and to its last prophet...Jesus.” He is clearly unsuccessful and demonstrates that his understanding of the scripture is vastly different than what is revealed in scripture itself.

This becomes even more apparent when he states that this theology sets the “slaveholders free from the notion that they could define other human beings.” As he explains, it also sets “African-Americans free from the notion of second-class citizenship.” He goes on at length talking like this, but never comes close to language suggesting that the theology of the black church is to give eternal life through belief and trust in God's Christ who is named Jesus!

This theology has two foci: liberation and transformation, both of which are rooted in the black experience, which includes Malcolm X. He also states, “Black worship is different from European and European-American worship.” This black theology is different. It is different from Biblical theology!

In addition, Wright said something else at this press conference that was quite troubling: “If I see God as mean, vengeful, authoritarian, sexist, or misogynist, then I see humans through that lens.” By listing attributes that are character flaws he attempts to show that if humans see God as having these character flaws, then they will emulate God and thus have those same character flaws, suggesting that God does not have those character flaws. However, as one looks at the list of attributes, the attribute of authoritarian stands out. Is Wright saying that God being authoritarian is a character flaw? Is he saying that his understanding of God is that God does not exercise authority in the universe that he created? Being that he equates the attribute of authoritarian with misogyny, it would seem that his God is not authoritarian. I also remember something in the bible along the line of “vengeance is mine, I will repay.”

But probably the clearest rejection of the god of the bible came when the moderator asked Wright about the famous scripture, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes unto the Father but by me.” She asked him, "Do you believe this?" And do you think Islam is a way to salvation?" Wright responded, “Jesus also said, "Other sheep have I who are not of this fold." Wright has mangled and distorted a passage of scripture to suit his own purposes. The passage of scripture he tried to quote is from the Gospel of John 10:1-16. Jesus starts off the passage by using an analogy of sheep and a sheepfold, where the sheep represent God's people and the sheepfold is where God's people congregate. Jesus says that anyone who tries to gain access to the fellowship of God's people without first going through the door of the sheepfold, but instead climbs in another way, is a thief and a robber. Jesus goes on to say that he himself is the door - thus affirming that he is the only way to God and his people.

In verse 16 Jesus continues by making the statement that he has other sheep that are not of this fold but, “I must bring them also” into the fold. Jesus said "I", not Mohammad or any other religious figure. The passage that Wright tried to quote, clearly affirms that Jesus is the only way to the Father and not that Islam is another way to salvation.

Bible believing Christians should not oppose Wright, because of his statements against the country - although they are ridiculous (as one prominent politician recently said.) We should oppose him because he is the prophet of a false gospel. He is a false prophet, with a false “black church,” a false “black theology,” and a false god that has a different Christ than the one revealed in the bible. I am saddened that I have not heard the church of Jesus Christ tell the world that Jeremiah Wright does not speak for the real Jesus Christ!

-James Pittman has a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Seminary and is currently serving in leadership at New Hope Community Church in Palatine, Illinois