Barack Hussein Obama - The Muslimchristianhindubuddhistatheist

In a recent "report" by Ulsterman with supposed ties to White House insiders and access to information from deep within the bowels of the Obama administration his contact talks about Bill Clinton, Hillary, Ron Paul, and the current resident in the WH - Barack Obama.

About half way through the profanity-laced piece the insider makes a claim which startles even Ulsterman - "He's an atheist you know".

Insider: Barack Obama. Atheist. So is Jarrett. Not that it matters…I don’t really care. No…I do care. I don’t like the lying about it. The bullsh-t way they go on using people. Pretending. That church in Chicago – it…for Obama it was just about connections. Leverage. Politics. Now I see them…getting the media to show them going into a church, hearing Obama talk about his religion…it’s all…it’s nothing to them. Nothing! God is a joke to those people. A punchline.

Add this to the list of other religious groups Barack Hussein Obama belongs to. Obama himself seems utterly confused as to his affiliation.

In that video Obama seems to be giving the Muslim community some very flattering and endearing praise indicating he very much associates himself with the religion of Islam. Yet in a Huffington Post article dated 9/29/10 -

President Barack Obama, in a rare discussion about his religious beliefs, described himself on Tuesday as a "Christian by choice" who arrived at his faith in adulthood because "the precepts of Jesus Christ" helped him envision the kind of life he wanted to lead.

So now we have Barack Obama associating himself with Jesus Christ - the God of Christianity who died for the sins of the world - a teaching which is blasphemous to the ears of Muslims and a heresy worthy of death in many parts of the world. But wait - it doesn't end there.

In a Nov 8/2010 news article by the BBC we learn that Barack Obama credited Gandhi with his Presidency while on a trip to India.

US President Barack Obama has paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi in an address to the Indian parliament, saying studying the legacy of India's independence icon had helped propel him to the White House.

Obama described the personal impact of Gandhi's teachings of non-violence and equality on his political career and said he felt honoured to visit Gandhi's residence, where decades later Martin Luther King had stayed

So - now we see a conflation of Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Atheism. Anything else? Perhaps. The Buddhist Blog on blogspot (which hosts this blog) actually endorsed Obama for President because of his apparent ability to unite all people everywhere.

Barack Obama seems uniquely positioned to be a political leader able to unite people of all races, religions and citizens of the world. He may not know of the Buddhist teaching of interdependence but that is exactly what he has cultivated. He has been able to inspire people from all over America and the world with many different political views that we have more in common than not and that we have a responsibility to help each other. He has reminded us that the division of the past 8 years has caused a lot of suffering both here in America and in the world.

So now we can summarize the exact spiritual condition of Barack Hussein Obama. He has embraced Atheism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and been endorsed by the Buddhists. Is there a name for an individual who conflates seemingly all of the world's philosophies into one? If there is a label one could ascribe to such a broad belief system what would it be? Here's the answer: Syncretism!

Barack Hussein is a syncretist. He isn't an atheist or a Muslim or a Christian or a Hindu or a Buddhist. He is a syncretist. So "what's the big deal" one might ask. The problem here is a lack of conviction - especially from the leader of the free world. Islam and Christianity do not lend themselves to conflation. They are polar opposites. Even though Jesus gets honorable mention in the Q'uran, it is certainly not the same Jesus spoken of in the Bible. And even Gandhi himself reckoned Christianity a false religion stating -

"I regard Jesus as a great teacher of humanity, but I do not regard him as the only begotten son of God. That epithet in its material interpretation is quite unacceptable. Metaphorically we are all sons of God, but for each of us there may be different sons of God in a special sense. Thus for me Chaitanya may be the only begotten son of God … God cannot be the exclusive Father and I cannot ascribe exclusive divinity to Jesus." (Harijan: June 3, 1937)

Barack Obama is attempting the impossible. Syncretism is not a viable worldview. Yet the evidence is overwhelming that Obama is a practicing syncretist.

Syncretism - the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion (dictionary.com)