[Image from telegraph.co.uk]As everyone knows, we face multiple, massive problems in our country and around the globe; problems which could escalate into end-of-the-world scenarios; problems for which we don't seem to have solutions at the moment, or if we do have solutions, we lack the political will to implement them.
Why then, we wonder, do some people concern themselves with trivia, such as why Obama isn't going to church?
Alex Koppelman at Salon's War Room has a brief article about Bill Sammon, who serves as the managing editor of the Washington Bureau for Fox News. Mr. Koppelman quotes from a blog post by Sammon which appeared on the "nework's Web site:
"With Easter just days away, Obama has yet to reveal what church he may have chosen or when he might attend his first Sunday services as president."
Why would Sammon care?
It seems that Sammon is a christianist of some stripe, as, according to Koppelman, he wrote a book in 2007 called "The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World."
Heh. Heh.
The title alone removes Sammon from our list of serious thinkers! George Bush and Moral Democracy? George Bush the lying warmonger? I don't think so.
Now, none of this is a big deal, but it does point out the tendency of christianist wingnuts to simply get everything all wrong. Whether Obama goes to church or not is irrelevant. His actions as president are what count, not some piety expressed in a public place.
And, I for one, am delighted he's not going to church and that most of the religious rhetoric that hung like dark clouds over the Bush administration has been lifted.
At this point in our national life, we need less religion and more morality; less piety and more pragmatic action based upon reason, not faith.
3 comments:
I, like you Jacob, would rather not see him go to some sort of organized church. By doing so he could very well alienate many segments of our society.
I couldn't care less about his beliefs, as long as they don't interfere with or direct his decisions as President.
He, like everyone on earth, can pray or communicate with whomever silently. Church is not necessary but is public and social. He is a very busy man and it is none of our business how he handles his spiritual needs. Would attending church have made most villains better people? Perverted priests put in a lot of time in church. I wish they had stayed out and minded their own business.
Lets all face Mecca, Saudia Arabia. All social,political and innerself will be fixed and healed. Allah O Akbar !!!!!! The first Muslim president Barak Hussian Obama, will change this pure evil country and change for the better. Inshallah
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