In what seems like déjà vu for political observers, President Obama attacked Christians yet again in what has proven to be a disappointing trend from the commander-in-chief.
In a highly stereotypical quip that is as laughable as it is ignorant, Obama basically called Christians immensely paranoid.
According to The Hill:
“President Obama lamented the rancorous, divided state of U.S. politics in a wide-ranging interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson.
In the unusual discussion, Obama revealed some of his longstanding frustrations with politics while asking the Iowa author questions about her family, her Christian faith and her writings.
“How do you reconcile the idea of faith being really important to you and you caring a lot about taking faith seriously with the fact that, at least in our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously sometimes are also those who are suspicious of those not like them?” Obama asked during the interview, which was published Monday in the New York Review of Books.
Robinson replied that those “turning in on themselves — and God knows, arming themselves” against an “imagined other,” are not “taking their Christianity seriously.”
Obama’s comments about religion’s role in America have often irked his opponents. Throughout his presidency, a vocal group of Obama critics have questioned his Christian faith.”
In one instance, during the 2008 campaign, Obama famously said some Christians”cling” to their guns and religion…
