Fascinating Interview
On the Christianity Today website there is this link to the interview Catherine Falsani did with Barack Obama a few years ago. It's about his religious beliefs. It's very enlightening.
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/obamas_fascinat.html
Now, I'm not going to criticize Obama for his religious beliefs. They are perfectly understandable, considering his upbringing. And I'm not one of those Christians who thinks the president has to believe just like I do. Most of them haven't, and there are other factors that affect one's performance as president other than his church affiliation. A lot of decent presidents have been ambiguous about that part of their lives, and it's only been since Jimmy Carter that we've much cared (well, people cared about Kennedy as a Catholic, maybe, but he discarded that problem by implying he really wasn't much of a Catholic anyway.)
But what strikes me about Obama's is that he is trying to please this interviewer with such circumspect answers. He's careful not to commit himself to any "dogma." If he doesn't commit himself to any real religious belief (all roads lead to the same place, which no religion really believes at its core), does he believe in anything political? Does he believe in anything except himself as president?
I don't know. I just ask the questions. We have elected a cipher.
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/obamas_fascinat.html
Now, I'm not going to criticize Obama for his religious beliefs. They are perfectly understandable, considering his upbringing. And I'm not one of those Christians who thinks the president has to believe just like I do. Most of them haven't, and there are other factors that affect one's performance as president other than his church affiliation. A lot of decent presidents have been ambiguous about that part of their lives, and it's only been since Jimmy Carter that we've much cared (well, people cared about Kennedy as a Catholic, maybe, but he discarded that problem by implying he really wasn't much of a Catholic anyway.)
But what strikes me about Obama's is that he is trying to please this interviewer with such circumspect answers. He's careful not to commit himself to any "dogma." If he doesn't commit himself to any real religious belief (all roads lead to the same place, which no religion really believes at its core), does he believe in anything political? Does he believe in anything except himself as president?
I don't know. I just ask the questions. We have elected a cipher.
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