"Obama defends his stance on Christian right 'hijacking faith'"
Highlights:
"When you have pastors and television pundits who appear to explicitly coordinate with one political party; when you're implying that your fellow Americans are traitors, terrorist sympathizers or akin to the devil himself; then I think you're attempting to hijack the faith of those who follow you for your own personal or political ends," the freshman Illinois Senator said at The Brody File.
"[S]omewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together...Faith started being used to drive us apart. Faith got hijacked," the New York Times reported.
He went on, "Whatever we once were, we're no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of non-believers."
i would at least concede that obama is reaching out to a demographic of unbelievers in a way that was previously demonized by previous presidencies. the political nature of religion is nothing new; there are literally hundreds of books on bush's political use of christianity that you can pick up.
faith, again, that magic word--it always comes up, nonetheless, as something to be applauded--a virtuous, spiritual act. just what is so special about having faith, and in what other context would it be applauded to blindly accept something to which has no evidence?
obama's convenient conversion to christianity from a secular background seems a little phoney...and i'd speculate it's all for show, but nonetheless we don't need another decade of blind faith.
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