{"id":4538,"date":"2010-08-21T17:39:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2010-08-21T17:39:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T17:39:35","slug":"obamas-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/obamas-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a go at this topic in last week’s Radio Derb<\/a>:<\/p>\n

. . . there’s been some shock and horror expressed at the finding by a Time<\/em> magazine poll that 24 percent of Americans think the president is a Muslim. My own impression, speaking as one of the eleven Americans who has actually read<\/em> Obama’s autobiography, is that he’s no more interested in the supernatural than he is in higher mathematics. True, he sat very happily in the pews at Trinity United for twenty years listening to Jeremiah Wright preaching how “white folks’ greed runs a world in need,” but that was just, you know, politics<\/em>. My guess is, Barack Obama caught a lot of z’s in those pews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Interested in supernatural matters” is a human trait, strong in some, weak in others, altogether absent in many, probably mostly congenital.<\/p>\n

“Identifies as a [name of religion]” is a social tag that can identify a very wide range of habitual behaviors, from churchgoing atheists like Sir Martin Rees (“I attend church out of loyalty to the tribe”) to St. Francis and Mohammed Atta.<\/p>\n

Obama is deeply uninterested in supernatural matters. He identifies as a Christian because politicians in the U.S.A. who do not so identify, get nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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