Friday, March 22, 2013

President Barack Obama visits Church of the Nativity

(NBC News) - Obama meets Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III (3rd left) during a tour of the Church of the Nativity.

Posted by Byzantine, TX

17 comments:

  1. Matushka AnnaMarch 22, 2013 at 11:41 AM

    I hope it helps change his hard heart...

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  2. JasonMarch 22, 2013 at 12:42 PM

    Not an Obama voter but I love this.

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  3. Aged parentMarch 22, 2013 at 1:07 PM

    It's hard for me to stomach the sight of an actual persecutor of the Church - which Obama very much is - soiling the ground of so holy a place by his presence. People have to stop looking upon presidents as some sort of special "messiah", or VIP, or as a great photo-op. The man is a monster, and if he wishes to enter such a place it should be on his knees, begging forgiveness.

    Frankly, I am disgusted.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM

    Here is a man who is unapolegetic about being a champion for abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, Planned Parenthood, and gay "marriage." Sometimes it is very difficult for me to separate the man from the sin. But in the end, as Orthodox Christians, we need to pray extra hard that the Lord grants him metanoia.

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  5. JasonMarch 22, 2013 at 3:17 PM

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  6. CabbageMarch 22, 2013 at 4:35 PM

    y'all need to calm down.

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  7. MJMarch 22, 2013 at 5:00 PM

    It's weird to see anybody shaking hands with a Patriarch.

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  8. AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 5:18 PM

    For what it's worth, the picture shows a handshake not a blessing.

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  9. AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 5:44 PM

    Give me a break. As opposed to the war obsession, disdain for the poor, disdain working class people, active racism, and antichrist market veneration of the Republicans, who floated a raving heretic and whose fundamentalist base would just as soon persecute Orthodox Christians as "not really Christian"?

    I doubt you'll find either parties ideology acceptable in Christian terms, but, nonetheless, our President's authority comes from God. It is, however, a fact that *any* foreign Patriarch of our Church is likely to unabashedly prefer our current President to his late and unlamented opponent and it is also a fact that Orthodox Christians no doubt voted more heavily for the Democrats than Republicans, seeing the Republicans as unambiguously a greater evil.

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    1. Byzantine, TXMarch 22, 2013 at 6:22 PM

      I doubt it, but then again most Orthodox people I know are of the Southern variety and don't cotton to the Democrat agenda in general and this president in particular. Regardless, I posted this picture with no political aims.

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  10. AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 8:05 PM

    "our President's authority comes from God."

    Uhhhh...the democrats attempted to take God out of their platform.

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    1. The Anti-GnosticMarch 24, 2013 at 10:52 AM

      I think most of the Church Fathers would consider democracy itself to be heterodox.

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  11. Archpriest John MorrisMarch 22, 2013 at 9:26 PM

    When His Beatitude blessed Obama, he was not blessing the man to show approval of his politics. He was blessing a symbol of the United States to honor our nations. I would like to know if Obama, who claims to be a Christian, made a pilgrimage to the Tomb of Christ and Calvary at the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre)? As an Orthodox Christian, I will never vote for a politician whose views are as anti-Christian as Obama's.

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  12. John (Ad Orientem)March 22, 2013 at 9:45 PM

    And people look at me odd when I tell them I am a monarchist.

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  13. ofgraceMarch 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM

    Well, it's certainly a contrast to having his look-alike play the role of Satan in a televised biblical drama series! LOL!

    Not a supporter of Obama's policies, but a misguided person is not Satan in the flesh, folks. And, yes, the Scripture says all gov't authority is established by God (sometimes the particulars of whom is in the office is more in the realm of God's permissive than God's prescriptive will, but the biblical record shows even this He uses to his own ends and often as a chastisement to His own people!).

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    1. AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 9:16 PM

      There is no doubt that this administration is a chastisement.

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