{"id":7473,"date":"2010-10-06T00:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:07:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T06:07:27","slug":"president-obama-christianity-and-pluralism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/president-obama-christianity-and-pluralism\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama, Christianity and Pluralism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s religious faith continues to be a topic of discussion in the mainstream press.\u00a0 A recent article discussed\u00a0an interview in which he said he is a &#8220;Christian by choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/09\/28\/obama-christian-choice?\">end of the article<\/a>, Obama said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a country that is still predominantly Christian. But we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists and that their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The perspective is interesting; Americans United for the Separation of Church and State made a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2010\/09\/30\/celebrating-choice-obama-professes-faith-in-christianity-%e2%80%93-and-american-religious-liberty\/\">point of saying that Obama &#8220;got it:&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Obama]\u00a0clearly gets the basic constitutional concept of religious liberty for all&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be accurate, religious liberty\u00a0is a human freedom, not a Constitutional concept, though it is <em>protected<\/em>\u00a0in the US <em>by<\/em> the\u00a0Constitution.\u00a0 Still, this begs an interesting question:<\/p>\n<p>Does the value of religious freedom or the tradition of American liberty dictate that citizens &#8220;revere and respect&#8221; others&#8217; &#8220;paths to grace&#8221; as much as their own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s religious faith continues to be a topic of discussion in the mainstream press.\u00a0 A recent article discussed\u00a0an interview in which he said he is a &#8220;Christian by choice.&#8221; Interestingly, at the end of the article, Obama said this: &#8220;This is a country that is still predominantly Christian. But we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists and that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,82,19,73,44,39,43,10,171],"class_list":["post-7473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-atheism","tag-constitution","tag-government","tag-hindu","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-obama","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473","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=7473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}