Drudge writes “SHOCK” and ABC tut-tuts a lot that “43% don’t know Obama’s religion.” ABC writes:
Despite Obama’s public professions on religion and spirituality, many Americans continue to doubt the president’s faith.
Nearly one in five Americans incorrectly believes that Obama is a Muslim, according to a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released late last year.
The poll found the number surveyed who knew correctly that Obama is Christian actually declined, from 48 percent in March 2009 to 34 percent in August 2010. Forty-three percent of Americans now say they don’t know what Obama’s religion is at all.
As is often the case, the American public is right. Why? Not because Obama is Muslim or Christian. He is neither. He is a modern agnostic through and through. I am too and, as the cliche goes, it takes one to know one. All this prayer stuff is so much horse hockey for public consumption. Obama is no believer. He is situational believer, perhaps, able to convince himself in certain circumstances (election), but that’s about it. A plurality of Americans seems able to recognize that. (I’m sure too that he wasn’t the first president to be an agonistic or atheist pretending to believe.)
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