That's a profoundly ignorant statement, unworthy of you.
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any real familiarity even with the basic theology of his supposed own religion, much less of another
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Replying to @ChanceBGardener @HeerJeet
and your the judge? the most galling part of white privilege is their disgusting sense of religious superiority
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Let's just say that's improbable, especially for someone whose life was otherwise unchanged by the conversion experience
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No, like most people he knows, he's a nonbeliever
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Replying to @ChanceBGardener @j_b_trey
Underlying assumption here is that liberal protestantism isn't really Christian. That's arrogant & false
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1. I didn't say that. 2. I don't believe Obama is a liberal protestant in any sincere way.He joined for (black) politics
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Replying to @ChanceBGardener @j_b_trey
Most Christians belong to church for social reasons in my experience
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there are a variety of ways of interpreting that, enough tosay "social" usually doesn't mean "professional advancement"
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The social function of black church makes it more authentically Christian, not less.
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he didn't join for socializing--he had plenty of friends in Hyde Park, and the folks in the pews weren't them
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Replying to @ChanceBGardener @j_b_trey
You have too narrow an understanding of the word social. Think "social gospel"
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