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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Obama's Catholic Roots

There are still around 17 percent of American voters who think that Barack Obama is a Muslim. The fact is, though, that his roots are very deeply Christian.

By the time of that session in the spring of 1987, Mr. Obama — himself not Catholic — was already well known in Chicago’s black Catholic circles. He had arrived two years earlier to fill an organizing position paid for by a church grant, and had spent his first months here surrounded by Catholic pastors and congregations. In this often overlooked period of the president’s life, he had a desk in a South Side parish and became steeped in the social justice wing of the church, which played a powerful role in his political formation.

The concept of social justice comes directly from the teachings of Jesus Christ and has been carried forward with a great deal of success by the Catholic Church. This is what drove the president to community service and his actions illustrate this quite clearly. His recent meeting with the Pope was a meeting of like minded individuals who understand that service to the poor is service to Jesus Christ. As the article notes, they are kindred spirits who strongly believe in social justice and inclusion.

There isn't any mystery to the president's agenda. He wants to help people out who are less fortunate. It's just that simple.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

You probably saw this video recently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtBvQj2k6xo#t=310

Ask 10 different liberals and you will get 10 different definitions of Social Justice. Hilarious and true.

Mark Ward said...

What do you think social justice means, Rob? Why?

Unknown said...

You ask questions to try to take the focus off the fact that liberals have 29 different definitions of social justice. Why don't you defend that fact instead of trying to shift the discussion to my supposed views.

Mark Ward said...

You've already presented the views of liberals, right? Unless you don't think that's accurate. How about presenting yours now? What is social justice? What do you think about it? Why?

Juris Imprudent said...

You want to know what social justice means? It means you can't just have plain ol' justice - it must be modified.

Which means it isn't "justice" anymore.