Obama has faith when convenient

In the recent article, "Obama embraces faith program," Barack was quoted as calling his faith "a personal commitment to Christ." Would someone please explain to me how anyone personally committed to Christ could consistently support partial birth abortion? Would Obama himself please explain that to me? Would he explain it to the evangelical Christians he's been courting? Would he explain it to anyone?

For those of us who have tried to overlook or forget that something this grotesque can occur in America, partial birth abortion, or intact dilation and extraction of a living child is where the child is born alive, half outside the womb. The doctor plunges a scalpel into the child's skull and extracts the brains, collapsing the child's skull and killing the child. The dead child is them extracted from the mother, and often disposed of in an incinerator. Most partial-birth abortions are performed in the 20-26 week range (the fifth and sixth months), and some are performed even later. The accompanying photo of a smiling Obama surrounded by happy, young children was provocative considering his extreme stand on this type of abortion.

Abortion and infanticide have been with society for thousands of years. Their use was popular and widespread throughout the Greek and Roman cultures in the time of Christ. The Orthodox Christian church has historically supported the sanctity of the life and traditionally opposed abortions, and infanticide since apostolic times.

Society once followed the church in this regard. Now, a newly enlightened society has abandoned both religion and God in preference to what sounds right and feels good to them at the time. Christians once followed the oral and written traditions of the church, including scripture and the church's apostolic authority. Now, new age Christians have abandoned scripture and the church, exactly as Paul predicted two thousand years ago, "For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths."

I imagine, though, it's a good thing that "Obama embraces the faith program." Would that he embrace all of the faith, the Christian faith he claims to follow, not just the parts that he finds politically convenient or expedient. If Obama does indeed have a personal commitment to Christ, may it grow by the grace of God into an intimate personal relationship. And may that relationship lead Barack not only to the truth about the sanctity of life, but to truth Himself - the very nature and person of Jesus Christ.

Mark J Schumaker

Grayslake