44% of Americans Can‘t Name Obama’s Religion
- Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:08am by
Billy Hallowell
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Liberals often criticized President George W. Bush for being too overtly Christian and for allowing personal faith to infiltrate his policies. On the flip side, President Obama is often derided for his lackluster church attendance and an alleged failure to uphold Christian ideals. Considering Obama’s less overt discussion about his personal beliefs, it seems many Americans simply don’t know which religion he embraces. In fact, a new Gallup poll shows that more than four in 10 can‘t name the president’s chosen faith.
When asked, “Do you happen to know the religious faith of Barack Obama?,“ 44 percent of respondents chose ”No/Don’t know.” This is astounding, considering that the media have reiterated his beliefs countless times over the past four years.
Despite Obama‘s own claims and the medias’ coverage of his religious preference, conservative critics would likely argue that actions speak louder than words. The president’s choice to embrace gay marriage, mandate birth control (even for religious employers), support abortion rights and champion other liberal ideals, they would argue, colors peoples’ perceptions and paints a confusing picture regarding his faith.
In the end, there is an argument to be made that people expect the president to act in a way that corroborates his personal ideals. However, more progressive Christians could counter that the president is doing just that (also, they wouldn’t disagree with many of his stances). Rather than governing based on his personal convictions, he may be considering the overarching fact that a U.S. president represents all people and not only those with whom he agrees.
Still, the notion that 44 percent of the nation remains confused about his religion creates some fascinating questions. Below, see the breakdown:
Despite profound confusion, 34 percent of Americans were able to correctly name Obama’s stated faith — Christianity. However, an additional 11 percent reported that he was Muslim, eight percent claimed that he has no religious affiliation at all and another two percent assumed that he is a Catholic (surprising considering his ongoing spat with the Catholic Church).
As always, the partisan breakdown on personal knowledge about Obama’s faith is interesting. Not surprisingly, Democrats are more able to accurately ascertain the president’s faith. Considering that they are more likely to be engaged with his views, this isn’t a bombshell factoid. However, some of the other differences between Republicans, Democrats and Independents are noteworthy. Gallup explains:
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to be able to name a religious faith for Obama, and are more likely to say Obama is a Christian. Just 3% of Democrats say Obama is a Muslim.
Republicans are less likely than Democrats to say what Obama’s faith is and are more likely to say Obama is a Muslim. It is unclear whether the 18% of Republicans who say Obama is a Muslim do so because they truly believe this is his religion, or because it is a politically charged idea.
Independents are generally more akin to Republicans than to Democrats in their views of Obama’s religion.
This information follows a Public Policy Polling study from earlier this year that found that the majority of likely Republican voters in Mississippi believe Obama is a Muslim.
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Comments (159)
kickagrandma
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:52amOh, I can!
muslime and I do mean SLIME!!! Lowest class human being on the face of the earth, bar none.
Report Post »ilovejiggys
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:00amI can too – ISLAMIC AFFIRMATIVE ACTION UNQUALIFIED PIECE OF CRAP JUST BLAME THE WHITE MAN!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:01amTrue, but the only thing Odumber worships is himself.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:01amObama is not your average American. He was born of a Muslim father, ergo he is a Muslim by birth. Anybody who denies that doesn’t know a hoot about Islam, which is basically why Dims stupidly voted for him. Would any Dim deny that a man born of Jewish parents is a Jew? The Dim Party is replete with secular Jews who voted for Obama. Fool me once…
There’s religion, and then there’s your personal belief system. Obama is an atheist by choice. Just ask Bill Maher. He can sniff out his own kind.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:05amI believe that he is a Muslim too and the things he has said and done in the past 3 1/2 years only reinforces my belief. Like the Muslims allied themselves with Hitler I believe Obama has also allied himself with other communist/socialist groups to destroy America.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:28amKryptonite had the perfect answer to this!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:54pmI really don’t give a SHI*, Just get him outta’ my FACE !!!
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 12:16pmCould he belong to the Church Of Satan?
Report Post »miriam1ramos
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 5:54pmIF obama wins, I think in the next four years you will really findout is he’s a muslim, but definately now he is not a christian. And if he is not a christian, and if he is a muslim/ agnostic, the next four years will be bad for the christian, and I don’t see a point of return, it’s just getting worse folks! I’m sorry to tell you, that’s what the bible says…it’s going to get worse.
Report Post »zetuff
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:52amGlen beck just said . on his radio show… anyone who thinks obama is a muslim is crazy…..who is glen beck getting his orders from?
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:00amI don’t think a Marxist can be a Muslim…Or can they..?
Report Post »antitheist
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:01amI suspect he is getting the orders from himself, as he wants to save face for you conservatives, as anyone who actually believes that Obama is a Muslim certainly deserves ridicule.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:31amHe is Muslim by birth. His father was Muslim. He was taught in Muslim schools as a child. Kryptonite on here knows more than the rest of you.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:35amGlenn is a lying cheat. Why would I look to what someone like that says?
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:38amHe’s not Muslim. Once he uses the Muslims to help in the division of this country and is in the position to rebuild and remold it to the his heart’s desires, the Muslims will be the first to be rounded up. Next will be the Mexicans, but only because of their strong Catholic population.
Anyone who stands with a Communist is ultimately buried by Communists. Always have been, always will be.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:44am@SAWBUCK
I don’t think a Marxist can be a Muslim…Or can they..?
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No, but a Muslim CAN be a Marxist. :)
If it helps, it’s akin to being a Jew. Marx was an apostate Jew. Daniel Pearl was a secular Jew, yet he was beheaded for being one by jihadists. The big mistake America made and continues to make as a Christian nation is to equate Islam to (Protestant) Christianity. We need to start thinking like people in the ME and Africa, if we want to understand where that SOB is coming from.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 12:52pmWe know for a fact that Obama was, during his childhood, a Muslim.
Report Post »We also know that Muslim law punishes those who leave Islam with death.
Obama is alive.
kryptonite
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 1:58pm@KEVINTAMPA
Anyone who stands with a Communist is ultimately buried by Communists.
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Not so, Kev. Russians were never able to conquer Afghanistan. If you are a Christian, the Book of Revelation clearly shows who’s going to be in control at the very end, and it won’t be the commies. A godless political regime does not stand a chance against a theocratic contender. Can communism top this:
” …the Messenger of Allah was asked: What is the value of Jihad for Allah? He said: You can not imagine it….Indeed, oh youth, death for Allah is our most exalted wish.”
“O you who believe! What (excuse) have you that when it is said to you: Go forth in Allah’s way, you should incline heavily to earth; are you contented with this world’s life instead of the hereafter? But the provision of this world’s life compared with the hereafter is but little. If you don’t go [out to war], he will punish you ruthlessly, and will switch you with other people…” [Sura 9, 38] http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4603
Remember, communism has no paradise of eternal carnal bliss, nor does it threaten a soul with eternal damnation. So Islamists are far more motivated to fight and conquer than commies ever will be. The State always will be a dreary slave owner.
Report Post »zetuff
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:46amListening to glenn beck show……they have got to him..he now protecting obama…..sad day for america…
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:04amWho is a Christian that is a NWO/Communist Zionist? Anyone aligning themselves with NWO Zionism cannot be called a Christian..Jesus/Yeshua did not say that we should support murder and mayhelm for land and material acquisition.. By the way..do you think that because ones who support Zionism will be standing for Israel and will thereby make it into heaven? That would be an entirely different Jesus than the one who died on the cross for our sins.. NWO/Zionism where all the wealth has been and is being transferred to the richest families in the world would be called Satanism.. It is sad that so many are so easily led by Satan..
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 11:18amIf O’bammy dies, JoeB. and peelosi are next in line! GeoB.’s “gaffs” are just a ruse to hide his ultra-radical views…worse than B?ammy! Did Y’a see the vid of Peelosi speaking to her [private-only] group of radicals about three years ago?? This was taken with a private cellphone-camera. SHE was 100% sober and coherrent. She used no telleprompter or notes and was right to her point. She didn’t bable or slurr-words and thoughts as we see her normally in the House-of-Reps., or in the MSM-?news? .
Report Post »Bobbogramma
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:45amI don’t understand how anyone can think Obama is a Christian. No Christian would insist on all sign os Jesus or Christianity be removed before he would speak at a group. Anyone born of a Muslim father is auto. a Muslim. He is not , not, not a Christian.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:28ambut he is big into black liberation theology which is the twisted christian doctrine akin to what the nation of islam is to islam itself. I am with you actions speak louder than words or as the bible pute it, by their fruit ye shall know them. in the presidents case, I do believe he is a commie racist who follows the flawed doctrine of black liberation theology where everything comes down to skin color and communism.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:45amHe’s an atheist as are most politicians, they only use religion to get elected but they believe in nothing!!
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:52amBingo.
I mean, the dude was raised by communists, and he seemingly embraced it and he was a cliche progressive in college. So, to think this man believes in the Father, Son and Holy Ghost would be foolish.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:09pmEssentially, you’re right. Except that unlike any other POTUS, Barack hates Christianity.
Report Post »Bobbogramma
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:42amobama at soccer game daughter ran past and Obama tripped little girl running after her. REAL
look on her face was pure confusion and he did a gleeful dance. on Fox not too long after his election. men showing clip looked shocked. never aired again as far as I know. Showed his true character, I thought
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:42amyea, but neither can he
Report Post »hugecatfish
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:41amBlack Liber-uslim-issisticism. I think that’s how they spell it.
Report Post »hi
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:41am“None”
Report Post »myway
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:35amHe has no religion he believes in himself. Narcissist!!!
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:34amMarxism.. Duh!
Report Post »phillips1990702
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:29amAnyone who says Obama is a Muslim is a moron and needs to quit listening to Glenn Beck 24/7.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:36amMuslim. Actually he just worships Barry, and plays at other denominations for votes. Thanks for the view from the pre-teen group though. Huge ups and props dude. Why do you listen to Beck?
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:39amI don’t know of anyone that has ever had to be corrected on what their faith is, except Obama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auwe-aGF4Lo
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:40amDespite profound confusion, 34 percent of Americans were able to correctly name Obama’s stated faith — Christianity.
BullShlt! Get your head out of your a$$
Obama is a Muslim! And a Radical one at that.
Report Post »Pug
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:55amMuslim…proof..he just called the winner of the Eygptian elections to congratulate him…Mulsim Brotherhood leader won…hussien was raised in the muslim “religion” while living with his step-father..a muslim…hussien refused to hold the National Day of Prayer..but hosts a Ramadan dinner for the ahhhhhh…wait for it…..MUSLIMS…and if you ever noticed…hussien wears no jewlery during Ramadan…Muslim…..all the way…
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:12pmYou’re the moron. Glenn doesn’t believe Obama is a Muslim, dodo.
Report Post »Dde13
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:29amI think deep down he thinks he is a God….. He doesn’t have humble bone in his body….
Report Post »The most arrogant president ever!!!!!!
bharris0
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:27amBased on his actions and arrogance, I would have to believe that Satan is his lord and master.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:42am…..and that’s what makes him a Muslim along with his own words :
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
Gonzo
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:26amWhat’s it called when you worship yourself?
Report Post »essay
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:34amGoogle clinical narcissm, and there’s a picture of Obama.
Report Post »RedDirtTexas
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:38amSorosism!
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:44am@ESSAY,
Report Post »Actually you have to google clinical narcissist, then you’ll find the photo of him.
doglady
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:25amObama worships only himself.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:24amIs narcissism a religion?
Perhaps because 0bama lies so much no one believes what the Christianity he claims. He is surely not known by his fruit. He’s either a Muslim, a believe in Black Liberation Theology or an atheist.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:45amCOPATRIOTS……….Isn’t it a shame that there is still a question mark beside the question *What is the religeon of the President of the United States*? The mystery man who rose to power and still no one knows who or what he really is.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 10:12amIt is mind-numbing how little is known about this guy and how much is hidden about him, MOM. I should correct my statement above to say that 0bama IS known by his fruits which is why so many do not believe his claims of Christianity. Have you seen this interview from 2004 0bama did with the religion reporter for the Chicago Sun Times?
cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:19pm@COPATRIOTS
Report Post »The way I see it, not all atheists are pathological narcissists, but all narcissists are atheists. :) We have figured out quite a lot about his background and beliefs. It’s just that people are confused because in America we have discrete categories for religion, and Barack doesn’t fit that mold.
thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:24amI can.He is a Muslim.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:24amhis religion is what ever one will get him the most votes….
Report Post »___
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:22amHe’s a Freemason, same as Romney
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:21amAnd 46% of Americans are sheep…
Report Post »OldmanRick
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:20amFrom the brat’s actions over the last three and a half years, I would suggest the wannabe emperor is a muslim.
Report Post »CajunZombie
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:16amSorry to admit, I’m not sure what it is either.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:16amI say that his stated faith – Christianity. is a lie, He is a Muslim and it will come out in the end. However they will say he evolved into being one.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:12amIn the case of Obama I will say it this way: Let his actions and deeds be the testimony to the truth of his religion and belief.
Report Post »makamae
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 2:00pmSoooo, that means no “religion” and no belief… except in himself, of course. For all others, he has only disdain.
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