At prayer breakfast, Obama says Christian faith guides his policies

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66. I'm a little confused by a group that faults him on being Christian and then also faults

him on how he has dealt with his responsibilities as Commander & Chief of armed forces at War (whether WE like that or not!).

If Christianity is fucked-up, what's your problem with war? Independent from Christianity, or any religion for that matter, you may come to support war or not, so at least some of those criticizing his Christianity should do so regardless of how he has dealt with those who are perceived as our enemies.

The bigotry against Christianity on this board is interesting. Science/Rationalism does not validate such bigotry; it simply has nothing to say about religion and that trait, that "nothing to say, one way or the other, about that for which there is no empirical phenomenology, or at least nothing to say outside of 'there is no empirical base for x'" is INHERENT to the nature of rationalism itself, so anything that violates that trait, one way or the other, anything that says yea or nay on x-which-has-no-empirical-traits, is NOT rational, i.e. it negates its own definition of its empirical identity and runs the danger of being the same as that which it claims to refute, in short, a God.

None of which even begins to address the intrinsic limitations of Science/Rationalism in a multi-dimensional multi-verse of anomalies that are beyond our own phenomenologies. What is beyond may or may no corelate with that which we refer to as "God", but the fact remains that it IS beyond.

Authentic respect for rationalism should recognize its limitations and honestly validate the extent to which one's claims ARE derived from one's own right to one's own non-rational emotions about Christianity/religion/or-whatever.