It Must Be Campaign Season: Obama Goes to Church – a “Rare Occurence”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, December 26, 2010, 4:58 PM
Barack Obama must be looking ahead to 2012.
The Obama family went to church today, a “rare occurence” according to the media.
But, when Obama does go to church, he likes a lively sermon.
The AP reported:
President Barack Obama and his family took a break from their Hawaiian vacation to attend Sunday church services, a rare occurrence for a president who prefers to worship in private.
The first family arrived at a chapel at Marine Corps Base Hawaii mid-morning for a multi-denominational service. The Obamas were greeted by clapping parishioners and a band playing “Joy to the World” as they were led to their seats in the front row…
Obama was the first worshipper to take communion, dipping the wafer in wine before placing it in his mouth.
One in five Americans believe Obama is Muslim. So does the Saudi media.
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Missy8s commented:
I’m sure he would have felt more at home at “Little Red Church” or the local Unitarian hall.
Missy8s commented:
Was Jim “Rasputin” Wallis the “preacher” by chance or maybe it was Imam Rauf…?
KR commented:
“…dipping the wafer in wine before placing it in his mouth.”
I’ve taken Communion for many years and at different churches, but I’ve never seen this.
Am I wrong to think he is treating Communion like an appetizer tray?
Joe College commented:
He’s working on his image.
Todd commented:
KR…..Our church just recently did communion this way by dipping bread into wine. There is a good chance that Jesus might have done it this way with his disciples.
mcc commented:
But there’s something else (not so rare in America, it turns out) that’s newly arrived on this Marine Corps Base just down the beach from his compound:
http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2010/12/madrassa-pops-up-on-us-marine-base-.html
Hmm..should it matter these schools are considered “so subversive” they’ve been outlawed in Russia and Uzbekistan… and the Netherlands won’t allow funding for them. But they’ll get our tax dollars.
The Gulen Schools. Part of the Daisy Education Corporation. Hmmm.
MrGoodWench commented:
So why did he go ?
Is there a jihady conference scheduled in that ” church” for later ?
ar05075 commented:
Perhaps he’s taking pointers from Reagan’s biograhy?
Midwestengr commented:
He’s just trying to pull the religion card now. When that doesn’t work out, and it won’t. Any guess on what card he’ll pull next?
daryl commented:
He dipped his in sacremental wine and Michelle took hers with a dollop of Long John Silver’s lobster sauce.
ar05075 commented:
He’s just trying to pull the religion card now. When that doesn’t work out, and it won’t. Any guess on what card he’ll pull next?
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Marshall Law ?
KR commented:
Todd,
I guess it isn’t as relevant as the idea that he is doing all this for show anyway. Regardless of how he takes Communion, God knows his heart and whether he is sincere.
Midwestengr commented:
and Michelle took hers with a dollop of Long John Silver’s lobster sauce.
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LOL! I would have guessed molasses, with a sprinkling of oats. Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm.
KR commented:
#10,
Lol
The Watcher commented:
Was wondering the same thing about dipping the wafer into the wine. My first thought was, ‘Okay, it’s not an Oreo cookie and a glass of milk’, but…like KR said, God knows what’s in his heart.
CattusMagnus commented:
Dipped the wafer?! What an ass.
kevin m commented:
Almost as rare as your god gw
ar05075 commented:
Ahhh, ‘lil kevvy the meteorolgist is back. Did you save Santa kevvy?
Granny commented:
#3 December 26, 2010 at 5:11 pm
KR commented:
“…dipping the wafer in wine before placing it in his mouth.”
I’ve taken Communion for many years and at different churches, but I’ve never seen this.
Am I wrong to think he is treating Communion like an appetizer tray?
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Trying to present himself as a priest, perhaps? I’ve never heard of a denomination that serves communion this way other than priests of the Catholic church.
regularguy commented:
Yes, he likes to worship in private, which only requires a mirror.
wtd commented:
#6 Fethullah Gülen on a U.S. Marine base ? WTH? Here’s the listing of subversive Gülen ‘educational’ institutions infiltrating America using deceptively charming identities
The unit on the Davis Monthan Air Base is identified as new in 2009 as the Daisy Learning Academy. The innocuous title “Daisy Learning” is deceptive and our government is insane to permit this.
googiesmama commented:
We started dipping our bread at our Methodist Church about two years ago. I’m not crazy about it. Our preacher that instituted the practice is a HUGE Obama supporter, over the top liberal. My husband’s family has been with church for decades, so I tell myself that I can outlast this particular preacher.
Todd commented:
KR…So true, God knows your heart. I was always taught there were two prerequisites in which you needed to fulfill at least one before you could partake of communion. The first if you were not saved you could still partake if you were willing to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. The second prerequisite was assuming that you were saved, if you had any sins not forgiven asked God first to forgive them right before you took of the bread and wine. If you were an unbeliever and still partook of the communion you risk a judgment from God (1 Corinthians 11:27-32). I am not a religious scholar I just know that is how I have been taught within the church. So with that said if Obama partook without doing either one then then he is a LIAR. But then again did not Judas partake of communion right before he betrayed Christ. No I am not Catholic.
coastal commented:
whatever……we went to catholic mass on Christmas Eve and I did not take communion because I am not a Cathlolic anymore. We praise in a non demoninational. The guy is full of crap and NOTHING he does will make me change my mind.
God’s got em, God will do his will on him.
USMC Thomas commented:
It’s called mack daddy SOBama pimp’s the troops.
apodoca commented:
What church did he go to that he could commune without being grilled about whether he has the same confession as the denomination?
wanumba commented:
#3 December 26, 2010 at 5:11 pm
KR commented:
“…dipping the wafer in wine before placing it in his mouth.”
I’ve taken Communion for many years and at different churches, but I’ve never seen this.
Am I wrong to think he is treating Communion like an appetizer tray?
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You’re 100% right. This is crap.
“Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying,”Take it, this is my body.” Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it.”
- Mark 14:22-23.
MAtthew 26:27: “Then he took the cup , gave thanks and offered it to them saying, “Drink from it, all of you.”
We’ve only had bazillions of subsequent references in the past two thousand years to “Drink from this cup” in prayers, music, literature, plays and films.
What so-called pastor is promoting this heresy?
Of course, it could be the fiction of ignorant AP reporters who are making all this up anyway and don’t know that’s NOT what’s done. Remember, we all had to wade through the “snub-nosed Glock” nonsense last week.
jim m commented:
He’s not a muslim, he just can’t find a church of racial opportunism close enough to the White House.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
…dipping the wafer in wine before placing it in his mouth.
What the…?
AcadieAnne commented:
Dipping the bread in the wine (or grape juice) is a form of communion known as intinction. I have seen it in United Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, and independent churches. I’ve run into it in everything from small summer Bible camps to 6,000+ member mega-churches. Honestly, the way communion is performed is not as import to me nearly as much as state of the recipient’s heart. As was stated above, this is not a sacrament to be taken lightly.
I also wonder if the act of communion could have been performed for show. I believe the traditional Protestant times to take communion are the first Sunday of the month and high Holy Days (Christmas, Easter, etc). Dec. 26 does not fit this criteria.
CV1 commented:
Obama’s religious beliefs should be between him and God. No one really knows what Obama believes. So he goes to Church on a Sunday. He’s kinda damned if he does or damned if he doesn’t. when all is said and done, it’s his eternal future. But we have more pressing matters that involve all of us right now!
I don’t need assumed religious comments to severly dislike this guy. His lying, liberal ways offer plenty of reasons to be against him.
Simon commented:
I heard Obama flushes a toilet with the Koran EVERY night.
Todd commented:
I still think the one is a closet muslim.
KR commented:
“So he goes to Church on a Sunday. He’s kinda damned if he does or damned if he doesn’t.”
-#31
True, but he created this dilemma for himself. Everything Obama does seems to be motivated by politics. Early in the 2008 campaign BO tried to put on the religious/Christian act. I noticed him doing this and it fell flat, so he put that act aside for awhile.
Now that 2012 is rolling around he may be reviving it along with whatever may work, like brushing up on Reagan’s life and quotes.
Expect more photo ops, unofficial campaigning, lofty sounding BS, or folksy sounding BS,…
whatever they think will work.
Jackie commented:
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…dipping the wafer in wine before placing it in his mouth.
What the…?
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What does he know about the Christian faith………..nothing!
GLM In Ohio commented:
I found it interesting that all Obama managed to do for our troops at Christmas was to pay a quick visit to the Marine base down the street in Hawaii ….
Those troops are under such stress there you know … Of course he could have paid a visit to the guys getting shot at in Afghanistan, but God forbid he keep Michelle waiting for her trip to the beach.
(No insult intended to our fine troops in Hawaii, but …)
jorgen commented:
Was he sitting on his prayer rug?
wanumba commented:
#30 December 26, 2010 at 8:35 pm
AcadieAnne commented:
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Frequency of communion depends on the individual church. Some have it every Sunday. Some once a motnh, some once a quarter. One woman asked once about why the Presbyterian church had it only once a quarter. Apparently the roots of that go back to nothing more than the Scottish churches were too poor to buy wine for even monthly communion, so it was quarterly.
So, that in itself isn’t anything significant. If they knew the POTUS was coming (probably) they may have been motivated to provide communion if it wasn’t scheduled. Maybe they always have communion anyway. Sigh. Who knows? The media just gives us puff pieces. Well … God knows. The media just shoved this in everyone’s faces to promote Obama over all else. They don’t seem to know how to play it – they want everyone to know that Obama went to church, but then they hustle to add, “a rare occasion” maybe in case the athiests get pissed.
You mentioned ‘intiction’ as the name for dipping the wafer, new one for me, but interesting to learn. We’ve found many Protestant mainstream churches use bread, but a number of other churches explain that it was Passover so the original bread Jesus used that night was the unleavened bread, so they use only Matzoh crackers for communion, but have never seen dipping before. The idea of it is grating, even if fundamentally what you say is correct, it’s the spiritual condition that’s the most important factor in all this.
MrGoodWench commented:
jorgen commented:
Was he sitting on his prayer rug?
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Oh yes he was
until he had to get up and leave , to join Scowley for lobster brunch .
Then Clinton finished up for him
ogee commented:
Um… This is not only sacreligious but an abomination to God. The SOBama’s have not been baptized or confirmed much less done the required confession before partaking of the body of Jesus. WTF?
He pisses me off so much. He will do anything to try and fool the people. ANYTHING!
Did Billy Bob clint on tell him to do this?
ogee commented:
Anyway, where is the proof. Are there any pictures of this occuring Dec 26 2010? Is the lame stream media making this story up?
ogee commented:
Dirty rotten souls eating the body of Christ!!! …oh man. We have a sicko as POTUS. Can’t wait until karma hits him for this minimizing of the sacrament. Lucifers ate the body of Christ..
My head hurts.
CV1 commented:
“True, but he created this dilemma for himself. Everything Obama does seems to be motivated by politics. Early in the 2008 campaign BO tried to put on the religious/Christian act. I noticed him doing this and it fell flat, so he put that act aside for awhile. ” — #34 KR
I’ll say this, KR: If they make a big deal just because he went to Church on Sunday, then he must not go to Church very often. I also believe nothing this man says and everything he does. Going to Church seems on the surface to be a good thing. RARELY, going to Church trumps the “short term” good thing and exposes a weak person.
As for what he believes, he has a right to keep that personal, but his actions reveal much!
Had It In Ohio commented:
My church in Columbus, Ohio receives Communion in this manner, we are a non-denominational community.
Perhaps Obama should investigate http://www.adventconspiracy.org, I believe it may help him.
burt commented:
How do we fool the rubes today?
Jerry C commented:
“One in five Americans believe Obama is Muslim.”
Four in five Americans are plain stupid.
Four in five Americans voted for NObama.
100% of illegals voted for NObama.
100% of muslims (foreign & domestic) voted for NObama.
100% of muslim-Americans believe he is muslim.
100% of non-Americans believe he is muslim.