The Obama's church membership

The church membership of the Obama family seems to be a major concern for a number of people.

McClatchy carried a long article on this "situation" yesterday, noting that the President and family "are considering joining several churches of various denominations in the nation's capital but have yet to settle on one, and aides say they're unlikely to decide before Easter."

You may recall earlier in the year, while still on the campaign trail, certain wingnuts were pissed off about candidate Obama because he often did not attend worship services on Sunday mornings, and sometimes, gasp!, he went to work out a gym instead.


The problem of church membership has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous...Obama and his aides are "vetting" churches. Heh. Heh.

If he has to join a church, I'd suggest the Episcopal Church. The Episcopalians are high on pomp and ceremony and not much else so no raggedy old clergy will crowd his mind with nonsense questions like WWJD (What would Jesus do?).

We've had enough of presidents trying to follow Jesus. That's what got us into Iraq, rendition, torture and illegal assassination squads run out of Cheney's office.


In fact, the problem could be easily solved. Don't join any church. Don't go to church. This is a secular country; be secular. There is nothing in any church that is going to help President Obama run the country. If he feels the need to discuss things with his god, he can do that in the privacy of the Oval Office or the Presidential bedroom.

Not joining a church would also send a hopeful message to the growing numbers of people who do not identify with a religious institution and as well as the growing number who have given up religious faith entirely to base their lives on common sense and reason.


Clergy types in Washington, of course, don't see it that way. Derrick Harkins, of Nineteenth Street Baptist pompously postulated that "It's a personal decision [the hell it is!], and it's a prayerful decision. They need to listen to God in terms of how that unfolds for them."

Huh?

How does that work, exactly? Does the voice of God come down from heaven in the middle of the night booming out, "GO TO NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN!", or does Obama suddenly wake up in the middle of a speech by Joe Lieberman and realize that God wants him to attend the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany?


Heh. Heh.

Stay home Sunday mornings, President Obama. Spend quality time with your family away from the roar of the crowd and the aromas of the too-washed and heavily perfumed. Go bowling in the basement. Watch a little FOX News and laugh. I mean are there any bigger clowns in town than the Repugnicans?

Nobody really cares if you go to church or not except for the christianist wingnuts and you've lost them already! They're totally convinced you are a socialist, the most dangerous man ever, the anti-Christ, a communist, and a sleeper mole for the "international Jewish conspiracy." Furthermore, they know you weren't born in the USA! And they've got the Bible verses to prove it.

Enjoy!