Obama and Religion

[kirisutogomen]

This is the sort of thing dpolicar usually posts, rather than me, but it was my mother who pointed me at it, and I figured people might be interested anyway: Obama and Religion.

Also, I saw the movie Traitor and it was better than I expected. It wasn't precisely the genre the ads had suggested, either, which had something to do with my pleasant surprise.

Comments

[psychohist.livejournal.com]

It strikes me that the author of that column has misanalyzed the situation.

The controversy is not about the fact that Obama chose a religious figure to lead the invocation, but about which religious figure he chose. Did anyone expect him to choose a nonreligious secular authority to deliver the invocation?

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

Well he started with the situation at hand but decided he'd prefer to talk about how atheism is just like religion, thus veering away from any actual point he might have made in favor of what I suspect is a favorite little sermon of his.