• Wilzax@lemmy.world
    35·
    9 months ago

    Trump CLAIMS to be Christian. Obama doesn’t. I respect self-identification.

    Edit: I apparently also live under a rock and am totally wrong about Obama identifying as Christian later in life. I had only ever heard the anecdotes about how he was raised secular and assumed he was reasonable enough to remain that way

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      In January 2008, Obama told Christianity Today: “I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.”[110] On September 27, 2010, Obama released a statement commenting on his religious views, saying:

      I’m a Christian by choice. My family didn’t—frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn’t raise me in the church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead—being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me.[111][112]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Religious_views