A review of the book, "The Faith of Barack Obama"

Some time ago (during the end of his campaign in fact) Thomas Nelson gave a chance for people to get a pre-release copy of the book "The Faith of Barack Obama" by Stephen Mansfield.

I read half of it within a week and the second half took me a lot longer. I know that this review is late in coming, but I need to fulfill my part of the agreement.

This book gave me a look into what Barack Obama actually believes and where is faith is truly based. I heard and continue to hear people say he is Muslim. This is not true. He did register with the Indonesian government as Muslim when he was a child but he is not Muslim and never truly was.

Barack (now President Obama) is what a lot of people would call a Christian. He believes in Jesus Christ and that is "his path" but he also feels that other people can choose whatever path is best for them. He is actually adopted universalism instead of Christianity. Whatever faith you choose is the faith that will work for you. That is the way he sees it.

There was a fairly large portion of this book devoted to Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and the doctrines that Rev. Wright preaches. I can't say I agree with the conclusions that Rev. Wright makes and he is very radical but it doesn't appear that President Obama has those kind of views. He seems to ride very much in the middle of the road and is very accepting of everyone.

When you are done with this book you will see that President Obama is not a radical black man trying to wipe out all white people as some would lead you to believe and at the same time he is not a full-gospel Christian either. He has chosen his path and he leaves your path up to you. He feels all the roads will lead to the same place. I don't agree with him, but at least now I have a better idea of where he stands.

I can't believe how long it has been...

I haven't posted anything on here in a long time! A big part of that is because I don't have a computer at home right now...but I could use my phone so it isn't a great excuse. Either way I haven't been updating my blog like I know I should.

Life has been really good to me lately. I have an amazing girlfriend, I love my job and I am (in theory) going to be able to take Ashley back to WA to meet my family for Thanksgiving.

All of those things go into making my life good as of late. I have been able to help some people through my job here at the church and that is also wonderful. I will write more later and I will be better about updating this but for now, if anyone reads this, know that life here in Bryant Arkansas is good.