Obama condemns ‘distorted’ faith at National Prayer Breakfast

[hrmjustin]

Adelle M. Banks

WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama on Thursday (Feb. 5) called for an emphasis on what is just about the world’s religions as a way to counter the ways faith has been distorted across the globe.

“We see faith driving us to do right,” he said to more than 3,500 people attending the annual National Prayer Breakfast. “But we also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge — or worse, sometimes used as a weapon.”

He urged believers of all faiths to practice humility, support church-state separation and adhere to the golden rule as ways to keep religion in its proper context.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/02/05/obama-condemns-distorted-faith-national-prayer-breakfast/

[Htom Sirveaux]

1. Believers who use their faith that way are hurting others, hurting their faith,

and ultimately hurting themselves by closing off the possibility of seeing the divine in the Other. It's especially ironic for those who believe that God caused the paradox of incarnating the infinite in the finite: that vision of God includes the goodness of difference on a very deep level.