His response included the words “they cling to guns or religion,” referring to frustration over job losses in their region. Obama was asked at a 2008 California fundraising event for wealthy donors why he thought working-class Pennsylvania voters opted for Republicans. 17): He’d rephrase his ‘guns or religion’ remark. Here are five faith facts about Obama from his highly anticipated book released Tuesday (Nov. “I suspect that God’s plan, whatever it is, works on a scale too large to admit our mortal tribulations that in a single lifetime, accidents and happenstance determine more than we care to admit,” he writes, “and that the best we can do is to try to align ourselves with what we feel is right and construct some meaning out of our confusion, and with grace and nerve play at each moment the hand that we’re dealt.” While friends and strangers have told him they believe God engineered his road to the White House, Obama says he didn’t view his political path as a call from God. On the page after his dedication of the tome to his wife and daughters, Obama features the words from an African American spiritual: “Fly and never tire/There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land.” president invokes biblical imagery - a land promised by God to his people - and Obama includes the role of religious institutions, faith leaders and personal traditions throughout the 750-page book. Lincoln, from the state of Illinois that Obama represented in the US Congress, presided over the country's biggest domestic crisis, the American Civil War, and ended slavery, but he was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1865.(RNS) - Former President Barack Obama’s new book, “A Promised Land,” only mentions four pages in its index under the category “faith and.”īut the title of the book by the 44th U.S. Taney, Chief Justice of the said Court, administered to His Excellency, Abraham Lincoln, the oath of office as President of the United States. The 1,280-page Bible was published in 1853 by the Oxford University Press.Īnnotated in the back of the volume, along with the Seal of the Supreme Court, is the following: "I, William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the said court do hereby certify that the preceding copy of the Holy Bible is that upon which the Honble. The book is 15 cm long, 10 cm wide, and 4.5 cm deep when closed. In the centre of the top cover is a shield of gold wash over white metal with the words "Holy Bible" chased into it. The Bible itself is bound in burgundy velvet with a gold-washed white metal rim around the three outside edges of both covers. The Lincoln family Bible, which is also in the Library of Congress's collection, was unavailable for the ceremony because it was packed away with the First Family's belongings, still en route from Springfield, Illinois, to their new home at the White House. The Bible was originally purchased by William Thomas Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court, for use during Lincoln's swearing-in ceremony on March 4, 1861. Though there is no constitutional requirement for the use of a Bible during the swearing-in, presidents have traditionally used Bibles for the ceremony, choosing a volume with personal or historical significance. "The President-elect is committed to holding an Inauguration that celebrates America's unity, and the use of this historic Bible will provide a powerful connection to our common past and common heritage." "President-elect Obama is deeply honoured that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in," said Presidential Inaugural Committee Executive Director Emmett Beliveau. It is currently part of the collections of the Library of Congress. Obama will be the first president sworn in using the Lincoln Bible since its initial use in 1861 when Lincoln became the 16th president. Barack Obama will take the oath of office as the 44th president of the US using the same Bible upon which Abraham Lincoln was sworn in at his first inauguration, the presidential inauguration committee announced on Tuesday.
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