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Obama's Faith
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Joe Carter basically calls Obama a fake Christian. By Carter's lights, who isn't? Freddie differs.

Presidents and Heretics
Ross Douthat — If you're following the interesting debate over whether Barack Obama is a Christian, one thing to keep in mind is the extent to which heresy of various sorts pervades American Christianity at this point - and, moreover, the extent to which it cuts across confessional, cultural, and political lines. The Obama interview that provided the grist for this conversation does indeed suggest, as Larison puts it, that our President subscribes to some sort of semi-Arian conception of the nature of Christ, which isn't surprising at all given that he ...

Apparently, I'm not a Christian
Nitpicker — So says Joe Carter, who says that, when Obama calls Christ a "bridge between God and man," he's gotten it wrong. This is, of course, exactly wrong. Jesus is not merely a "bridge" between God and man, Jesus is both fully-human and fully divine. Obama’s statement is more akin to something his role model Gandhi would say, rather than the claim made by an orthodox believer.Carter doesn't really ask about whether or not a single interview might be the best way to judge a person's beliefs, but instead says that the creeds--Nicene and or Apostolic--are that ...