{"id":838,"date":"2008-09-17T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T07:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/09\/faith-in-obamas-christian-comm.html"},"modified":"2008-09-17T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T07:42:49","slug":"faith-in-obamas-christian-comm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/09\/faith-in-obamas-christian-comm.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith in Obama&#8217;s Christian Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to God-o-Meter&#8217;s post on the avalanche of comments coming in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/09\/still-questioning-obamas-chris.html\">questioning Obama&#8217;s sincerity as a Christian<\/a>, a reader posts video of conservative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faith-Barack-Obama-Stephen-Mansfield\/dp\/1595552502\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1221652199&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Faith of Barack Obama<\/em><\/a> author Stephen Mansfield defending Obama&#8217;s faith while opposing his politics and taking the church to task for demonizing political opponents:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nFFWS6ioHJc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to God-o-Meter&#8217;s post on the avalanche of comments coming in questioning Obama&#8217;s sincerity as a Christian, a reader posts video of conservative Faith of Barack Obama author Stephen Mansfield defending Obama&#8217;s faith while opposing his politics and taking the church to task for demonizing political opponents:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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