[lbo-talk] Barack Obama

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 7 09:47:23 PST 2004


Yeah, only morons like Augustine, Aquinas, Anselm, William of Occam, Duns Scotus, Dante, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, Kant, and Hegel are Christians.

--- Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:


> Well, you do have to wonder if people as smart and
> well-educated as Clinton,
> Gore, Obama et al. are actually all Christians.
>
> -- Luke
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andie nachgeborenen"
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Barack Obama
>
>
> >
> > If you find that sort of statement unsettling, you
> > Yhave to get out and meet people. Barak Obama is
> an
> > extremely liberal U of C constitutional law
> professor,
> > not a no-brow Texas fundamentalist. Like most of
> this
> > country, excluding people on this list, and
> especially
> > like most black people, he's also a believing
> > Christian. That doesn't mean that he's gonna go
> out
> > and smite the infidel in the name of the Lord. My
> > black friends say things to me like, Have a
> blessed
> > day, and they mean it, like Jesus should bless me.
> And
> > they know I'm a commie Jewish atheist. People
> here
> > have to learn to get out some. Find a Christian
> and
> > have her or him invite you to church services, it
> > would not hurt. Listen to people talk about their
> > faith (without arguing).
> >
> > jks
> >
> > --- ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Perelman wrote:
> > >
> > > > m I the only one who was not particularly
> > > impressed by him? He seemed nice. He had
> > > > a nice story. He had nice credentials. And
> maybe
> > > he was good in Illinois politics?
> > > > I don't know.
> > > >
> > >
> > > i must admit that his "we worship an awesome
> god"
> > > bit scared me a bit...
> > >
> > > --ravi
> > >
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