When One Suffers Morally

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"How can one be well... when one suffers morally?" (By Leo Tolstoy). I found the quote to be rather interesting because in Christianity, we (some) would say that we suffer because of sin. In order to suffer, we must have made exceptions in our moral thinking and values of right and wrong. However, I chose Barack Obama because I didn't know our president's beliefs or where he stands in decision making, (I still haven't got a clear picture of everything yet). And I sure didn't want to just follow everyone else when they said that (Obama wasn't a good president or that he's fail us. Furthermore, I want to share what Obama has said about values, religion, and how that impacted his life, and what I thought about it.

First, to be honest, I had quite a tough time finding something on Obama's moral values. I then came across an article on USA TODAY where he was speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast meeting. I quote, "we can't leave our values at the door... if we leave our values at the door," he added, "we abandon much of the moral glue that has held our nation together for centuries and allowed us to become somewhat more perfect a union." With this, he wants or would like us to hold on to and remember the …show more content…

I continued to read more of Obama's religion section on Wikipedia, and learn that his mother was the most spiritual person he nkew while growing up. But she didn't take him to church, so he had to make the choice of being a Christian or not. This is what he said, "so I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead -- being my brothers' and sisters' keeper, treating other as they would treat me." I feel that this is an okay way to word it, given that the Bible and the words Jesus spoke, are our instructions in which we should live out and

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