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• Mike Huckabee is a Baptist.
• Mike Huckabee attends church at Rock Creek in Little
Rock, Arkansas.
• Huckabee strongly believes in the infallibility of the
Bible, as a result of which he rejects evolution.
• As a teenage boy he led his own Southern Baptist group
at the Beach Street First Baptist Church in Texarkana.
• In 1989 he was elected the president of the Arkansas
Baptist State Convention and the youngest person to hold this
office.
• Huckabee is quoted by The Jewish Week as saying, "I
didn't get into politics because I thought government had a
better answer. I got into politics because I knew government
didn't have the real answers that the real answers lie in
accepting Jesus Christ into our lives."
• Apart from the eight years Huckabee spent as the
Governor he was extremely involved with the church and affairs of
religion.
• Huckabee started off his religious career as a staffer
for James Robison, a very well known evangelist.
• In the book that he wrote called "Character Makes a
Difference" he says The Ten Commandments are divided into two
sections--the vertical laws dealing with man's relationship with
God and the horizontal laws dealing with man's relationship with
others.
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• Barack Obama is a member of United Church of Christ.
• Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, who was brought up
as a Baptist, were most recently members of the Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago. This Church holds close the black
liberation theology and its importance on authorizing groups
exploited by establishment forces.
• Barack Obama had been a active member in this church for
twenty years. This is where he was married and his children were
baptized.
• In 2008, Barack and Michelle Obama resigned their
membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The
resignation followed offensive comments by Rev. Michael Pfleger
and Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
• Daniel Pipes stated that Obama was brought up as a
Muslim because he attended Koran classes in 4th grade at a Muslim
school in Jakarta, Indonesia. CNN stated that even though he did
study in a Muslim school for a couple of years, it was a non
religious public school attended by people of different
religions.
• Obama states that he was brought up in a non religious
atmosphere. His father was an atheist and his mother was one of
the most spiritually awakened persons that he's ever known.
According to Obama, "Religion for her was just one of the many
ways ? and not necessarily the best way ? that man attempted to
control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our
lives."
• Obama proclaims that he is a Christian in all ways. He
stressed that when he was being sworn into office, he had put his
hands on the family bible and when he is in the United States
senate, he pledges allegiance to the flag of USA.
• Obama's paternal grandfather was a Muslim, and he did
attend a Muslum school in Indonesia. He uses these aspects to
tell us that he will be able to handle foreign policy better and
to bring in a new face to parts of the world where USA is not
well liked.
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