Obama's Protestantism

In the last post, I looked at Romney's Mormonism, specifically why a candidate's religion does matter, and why Romney's religion should trouble people. In this post I'm going to focus on Obama's Protestantism. I am not doing this to 'be fair' to both sides, but rather to use Obama's religion as an object lesson on why the last post is so true. What most people don't realize, and what I didn't realize myself until recently, is that Obama's Protestantism explains nearly everything about how Obama has governed these last four years. While most people think that he's secretly a Muslim, that claim doesn't explain or shed light on his policies nearly as good as his publicly professed Protestantism does.

For over 20 years Obama has been a member of the Protestant denomination called the United Church of Christ. While the name of this denomination sounds innocent enough, it is actually one of the most liberal in all of Protestantism. For example, the UCC is very pro-abortion, it supports the HHS mandate, is in favor of same-sex marriage, promotes and publishes books on sex-ed (including at very early ages), has an unhealthy emphasis on environmentalism, and promotes what is effectively secular humanism under the banners of social justice and liberation theology. As far as theology is concerned, the UCC was originally a mish-mash of various denominations, which means it doesn't really take sides on various doctrines and leaves this up to the individual leaders/members. Historically it has been anti-Catholic, and this is even more true today with the Catholic Church firmly opposing many of the UCC teachings on morality.

Now with that picture painted, is it not obvious the parallels between Obama's policies and the UCC policies? Clearly, the UCC deeply influenced his understanding of Christianity and world-view in general. In his mind, one can be a good Christian and support all those things. Nothing in Islam would promote even half of those twisted and immoral teachings that the UCC trumpets. And since Mormonism doesn't go anywhere near this morally liberal, this means that Obama's Protestantism is actually more of a concern than Romney's Protestantism.

These last two posts should dispel any notion that the religion a candidate embraces “doesn't really matter,” for clearly nothing can be further from the truth. It is also plain to see just how dangerous Protestantism is, since one can embrace any number of outrageous theological and moral views and do so under the banner of “Christian”. Just think of the number of governing leaders who publicly claim to be “Christian,” since they do indeed affiliate with a given Protestant denomination, and while this sounds like a good thing, what the public doesn't know is that much of the time the given denomination is espousing the most un-Christian doctrines. Given this, I believe that both those who say our nation was founded on Christian principles and those who say our nation was not ever (or is no longer today) Christian are both right. That's because Protestantism is only semi-Christian, which means it has the ability to be Christian and “Christian” as needed.