{"id":6704,"date":"2010-08-28T10:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/how-can-this-be.html"},"modified":"2010-08-28T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:55:43","slug":"how-can-this-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/how-can-this-be.html","title":{"rendered":"How can this be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find the claim preposterous, and so these numbers just as shocking. <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/augustweb-only\/43-52.0.html\">From Tobin Grant&#8217;s article at CT<\/a><\/b>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\">\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"text\"><strong>P<\/strong>resident Obama&nbsp;<a href=\"\/ct\/2008\/januaryweb-only\/104-32.0.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text\">told<\/a><span class=\"citation\" style=\"font-style: italic\">&nbsp;Christianity Today<\/span>&nbsp;in 2008, &#8220;I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian.&#8221; According to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/pdf\/645.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text\">Pew Forum survey<\/a>, only a third of Americans believe him. This is only slightly more than the 18 percent who think he is a Muslim. <b>Among evangelical Christians, 29 percent believe Obama is a Muslim, but only 27 percent think he is a Christian.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Since March of last year, the percentage of Americans who think Obama is a Muslim has increased from 11 to 18 percent, while the percentage who think he is a Christian dropped from 48 to 34 percent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the claim preposterous, and so these numbers just as shocking. From Tobin Grant&#8217;s article at CT&#8230; President Obama&nbsp;told&nbsp;Christianity Today&nbsp;in 2008, &#8220;I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian.&#8221; According to a new&nbsp;Pew Forum survey, only a third of Americans believe him. This is only slightly more than the 18 percent who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How can this be? - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/how-can-this-be.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How can this be? - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I find the claim preposterous, and so these numbers just as shocking. 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