@62. Gene Lalor:
I suggest President Barrack Hussein Obama speaks only for himself when he outlandishly declared on April 6th that, “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
You are wrong. Obama speaks for myself as well as many others when he declares that the USA is not a Christian nation. It never has been.
What is irrefutable is that his heritage and background were distinctly Islamic. His late mother is reputed to have been an atheist, an atheist who happened to marry not one but two Muslim men. Other influences in his life, his African relatives in Kenya as well as his father’s Islamic roots, his years spent in Muslim Indonesia, his Muslim roomies in college, point to the possibility that America’s new leader had more than a smidgen of the Q’uran in his blood.
There is nothing in Obama’s biography to indicate that his broad exposure to world culture has reduced his ability to faithfully execute the office of the President. I’m glad we have a President with more than a superficial understanding of the Muslim world.
I’m tired of beating the dead horse proffered by those who deny America’s, and our Founding Fathers’ essential Christianity.
Then stop trying to argue that the Founders were essentially Christian. They weren’t.
“It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.” – Thomas Paine
“The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves…these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.” – Thomas Jefferson
“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!” – John Adams
“Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.” – James Madison
Obama is correct to assert and defend the notion that America is not, and never has been, a Christian nation. We should be proud of our noble secular history. Denying our rational roots will only lead to disaster.
Peace.
DS
