I am sorry folks, but NO Christian OR Jew has a name of BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, UNLESS they ARE a moZlem. Also, there is NO Christian OR Jew that I know, that has EVER 'slipped' up and said: "It is true that John McCain has not mentioned my MUSLIM faith" But HUSSEIN obama DID, it is also in his majesty's best wishes that b4 he does ANYTHING, he wants to visit an ISLAMIC nation.
Sorry- I WHOLEHEARTEDLY disagree.
I guarantee that since he went to that "church", he could comfortably talk about "his christian faith" too. And i'm sure he'd think he means it(in his way, he does).
Liberals do that. Lots of liberal jews talk about "their jewish faith".
It does mean that he identifies with certain themes he sees in islam.. His "church" bookstore had lots of islammic books.
Regarding his name. There is an issue there. It wouldn't be such a big deal if he just had the name he was given by birth. But it is significant that as a kid, other kids knew him as Barry, but he decided to this day, to be called Barack instead of Barry. It is a name from arab/islammic culture. It does show sympathies and identification.
Generally speaking, somebody in america, and his name is barack, you'd think he was a muslim. But if you look at the whole picture, it is not the case. Not many muslims would go to a church. Even a "church". And he didn't do it out of core religious beliefs. Now he has left it he doesn't attend anywhere.
Somebody as intelligent as him , If he believed his religion properly, he wouldn't have chosen a house of worship where the pastor was just a political hound. He would be reading the core text of the religion and studying it. Infact, if he was serious he wouldn't go near that place!
It's not just that he is not practicing, he doesn't have the core beliefs..
an atheist, daniel dennet, said something interesting,
There's belief in G-d, and there's
believing in belief in G-d.
I realised that alot of liberals , most even, have the latter but not the former. Obama is one of them. I'm sure he likes the idea of lifting people up(listen to him speak!), and he knows that religion can do that. I'm sure the relationship between the pastor and the congregation interested him, as well as sympathy with what the pastor stood for. I bet alot of US senators are like that.. They don't believe in G-d, but they believe in believing in G-d.
Rabbi Jacob Schochet pointed out in a debate, that it's well known that if you believe in something, (be it yourself, or somebody that believes in you, or anything), then it can "fix you up". So Obama saw that believing in G-d lifts people up.. so he believes in that. Most liberals are like that.. They just wouldn't admit that they don't believe in G-d.
note- I don't expect people to look into him, but a warning about daniel dennett , when he talks to the public he appears very fair.. very honest, very unbias. I saw a clip of him talking at a conference of atheists. There he really "came out" , he said he's a member of a group called "the smarts", the name is no coincidence, they're smart and religious people are dumb , e.t.c.