I just listened to an npr podcast and after listening to it, I'm just curious. So I thought I'd try a little experiment.
What religion is our president?
You don't have to participate. But I'm curious as to what kinds of answers this question would receive amongst my friends and family.
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I'm not certain what faith Obama subscribes to, and I honestly don't care about his religious views. I don't understand why so many people on the Internets are so riled up. :\
yeah... it's interesting, isn't it.
i know for a fact that he is a christian
Protestant of some kind? Baptist?
Yeah... that's right. (hop nobody else reads these before responding so I don't ruin it all! Haha.)
B.O. says he's Christian and went to a church called Trinity. He's a seldom-attender these days, according to newsy type people.
For some reason a lot of people think he's Muslim, and I'm wondering why. Not that I object to the idea of a Muslim president, just that I wonder if it all stems from talk radio/rightish news stations or if there's some basis behind some people's reasons?
Yeah. There are two sickening aspects to this whole matter. (1) that he is "accused" of being a Muslim and (2) that being a Muslim is a deemed a terrible thing to be accused of. It's a sad commentary on the attitudes of many Americans, I'm afraid.
He is our president. Enough said!
btw... I hope nobody thinks that, in posting this, I'm trying to start some kind of debate. I'm not. I'm simply curious. I already know that my gradmother who doesn't blog is pretty sure Obama's a Muslim. And I know my mother-in-law might also feel this way, though in general she's more of the illuminati persuasion (that 7 families rule the world and anyone not a part of them are their puppets).
This is pure curiosity.
I think one of the reasons people give that he is Muslim is that his dad was Muslim. Another reason is that people claim he has called himself a Muslim in the past.
Either way it really doesn't matter. I think some people want to know his religious beliefs because they think being Muslim is a terrible or dangerous thing for America and others want to know just to know.
I think most people just want to know more about who their president is to get an idea of how he thinks. But honestly I don't really know or really care at this point.
Obama doesn't appear to be a very religious man no matter what religion he prescribes to. (But I may have come to that conclusion falsely) Does his strong/weak religiousness matter, not really. Especially if he upholds the first amendment.
I just had an interesting thought, after reading Josh's response to this.
I wonder if "Muslim" is like "Jewish" in that, if you're born it, you are it. There's a cultural aspect that is almost stronger and more pungent than the religious aspect of it... it's almost like a racial designation.
And his wife is most definitely hard-core protestant, her family is. B.O probably was raised that way,too, when he was living in America, by his southern Ma. :)
So maybe he's both in a sense.
Would it bother people (some of you) or I guess I should say, DOES it bother you that our president has Muslim ties, at least.
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