tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post8277822613808102027..comments2023-12-14T21:55:11.213-05:00Comments on Mitchell Langbert's Blog: Obama Lied About His Religious AffiliationMitchell Langberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00722335216553899790noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post-14382895072863247712010-08-23T13:45:51.513-04:002010-08-23T13:45:51.513-04:00Hi.
great article!I'll put a link to your post...Hi.<br />great article!I'll put a link to your posting on my afternoon postings.<br />My humble blog :MFS-The Other News.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02987737871351359966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post-4101809534719712092010-08-23T11:02:39.659-04:002010-08-23T11:02:39.659-04:00In his own words from his book, the president make...In his own words from his book, the president makes it extremely clear where his loyalties lie! “ Quote from Obama’s book: Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction..'"<br /><br />The man's religion aside, his loyalties are clear and they are in fact extremely pro Muslim. Or could it be that as in his entire presidency so far, his own words in his own book are also just a bald faced lie?joetotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614909072614184465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post-16737211719456144692010-08-22T20:23:43.877-04:002010-08-22T20:23:43.877-04:00Dear Anonymous: It does not require a detailed rev...Dear Anonymous: It does not require a detailed review of history, only a cursory one, to understand the fundamental importance religion plays in every aspect of a culture, extending to economic and political attitudes. Max Weber's "Protestantism and the Spirit of Capitalism" is still a foundational work in sociology. Weber argues that Protestantism was the fundamental pivot on which the industrial revolution turned. There are many other ways to demonstrate the fundamental connection between religion and the political policies that a candidate is likely to adopt. For example, Catholic countries have been less ready to adopt democracy than Protestant ones. Spain remained non-democratic until the 1970s, for instance. In contrast, Protestant countries, England, Switzerland, Holland and the United States, have had a much greater tendency toward liberalism.<br /><br />Hence, the claim that the Democratic Party media makes that religion is irrelevant to their sponsored candidate's political beliefs is uninformed. Of course religion is critical and candidates cannot be evaluated without a grasp of their religious views. <br /><br />Much of the motivation for the claim that Obama's religion is immaterial is the partisan eagerness with which the Democratic media has touted him. Moreover, of all the religions, none touches so deeply on politics and political power as the Islamic faith. If you are unaware of Islam's history and traditions in that regard, I recommend Bernard Lewis's "Muslim Discovery of Europe." You might begin to do some serious reading instead of parroting platitudes from some third rate newspaper whose writers are less informed than you are. <br /><br />I do not blame you for being uninformed about the link between religion and various social attitudes demonstrated, for instance, in David McClelland's "Achieving Society". Surely, I would hope for better from the Democratic Party media. Even though it is unreliable and biased, I have never before seen such palpapable ignorance (being unaware, for instance of Weber and McClelland, the most elementary sociology) before it became Obama's publicity agency. <br /><br />Most of all I blame the school system for leaving someone like you badly educated and susceptible to the media's propaganda.Mitchell Langberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722335216553899790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post-80691057890038689032010-08-22T15:02:46.099-04:002010-08-22T15:02:46.099-04:00Hi Mitchell. Nice blog you have here. May link t...Hi Mitchell. Nice blog you have here. May link to it at LibertarianRepublican.netEric Donderohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02763399145451696076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post-36360486713187752010-08-22T13:56:03.856-04:002010-08-22T13:56:03.856-04:00What do you care about someones religion? What dif...What do you care about someones religion? What difference does it matter? Obama is what ever he says he is. He can choose to practice the religion the way he chooses to....or not. <br /><br />If one chooses to believe in a higher power, they may also choose how that relationship fits into their life....if at all. <br /><br />There is no penalty for not fitting into what someone else has as a preconceived notion of what religion is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com