{"id":37442,"date":"2016-11-18T00:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T03:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=37442"},"modified":"2016-11-17T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T02:00:08","slug":"president-obama-on-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/18\/president-obama-on-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama on Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think that we should foster a culture in which people\u2019s <strong>private religious beliefs<\/strong>, including atheists and agnostics, <strong>are respected<\/strong> and that\u2019s the kind of culture that I think allows all of us then to believe what we want. That\u2019s <strong>freedom of conscience<\/strong>. That\u2019s what the Constitution guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>where we get into problems<\/strong> typically is when our <strong>personal religious faith<\/strong> or the community of faith that we participate in <strong>tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism<\/strong> in which it\u2019s <!--more-->not enough for us to believe what we believe but <strong>we start feeling obligated to hit you over the head<\/strong> because you don\u2019t believe the same thing or to treat you as somebody who\u2019s less than I am.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s an interesting proposed dichotomy: One&#8217;s religion is <em>either<\/em> a &#8220;private&#8230;freedom of conscience&#8221; or it is &#8220;fundamentalist extremism&#8221; that assaults another person.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama&#8217;s full interview with Bill Maher can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xXH5agV7skw\">viewed here<\/a>, with the relevant section on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RCb3CaLpfmk\">atheism and religion here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that we should foster a culture in which people\u2019s private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected and that\u2019s the kind of culture that I think allows all of us then to believe what we want. That\u2019s freedom of conscience. That\u2019s what the Constitution guarantees. And where we get into problems typically is when our personal religious [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[82,3951,909,43,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-37442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-constitution","tag-extremist","tag-fundamentalist","tag-obama","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}