{"id":69,"date":"2008-11-17T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2008\/11\/this-just-in-obama-not-orthodo.html"},"modified":"2008-11-17T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:25:17","slug":"this-just-in-obama-not-orthodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2008\/11\/this-just-in-obama-not-orthodo.html","title":{"rendered":"This Just In: Obama Not Orthodox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on remarks President-elect Obama made to Cathleen Falsani four years ago (and recently <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/11\/obamas-interview-with-cathleen.html\">reprinted on Beliefnet<\/a>), there&#8217;s been a dustup over whether he can legitimately be said to be a Christian:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Joe Carter at Culture11 <a href=\"http:\/\/culture11.com\/blogs\/kuoandjoe\/2008\/11\/12\/the-faith-of-obama\/\">says no<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rod Dreher <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2008\/11\/is-barack-obama-a-christian.html\">echoes him<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tony Jones says <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2008\/11\/yes-rod-barack-obama-is-a-chri.html\">Yes He Can<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Steve Waldman points out that if Barack Obama isn&#8217;t strictly orthodox in his theology (particularly his soteriology), <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/11\/is-obama-really-christian-are.html\">that makes him just like 70% of his fellow Protestants<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I won&#8217;t venture a guess about the state of Obama&#8217;s soul. I&#8217;ll just point out that if he&#8217;s not precisely orthodox, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58026\">he&#8217;s no different from our most evangelical president<\/a>. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on remarks President-elect Obama made to Cathleen Falsani four years ago (and recently reprinted on Beliefnet), there&#8217;s been a dustup over whether he can legitimately be said to be a Christian:\u00a0 Joe Carter at Culture11 says no. Rod Dreher echoes him. Tony Jones says Yes He Can.\u00a0 Steve Waldman points out that if Barack&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Just In: Obama Not Orthodox - Text Messages<\/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\/textmessages\/2008\/11\/this-just-in-obama-not-orthodo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Just In: Obama Not Orthodox - Text Messages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Based on remarks President-elect Obama made to Cathleen Falsani four years ago (and recently reprinted on Beliefnet), there&#8217;s been a dustup over whether he can legitimately be said to be a Christian:\u00a0 Joe Carter at Culture11 says no. 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