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Posted by josef on 11/12/2008, 12:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Obama's spirituality"
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: A fascinating interview. Thanks for posting
: it, josef.
:
: I was (and remain) troubled by Obama's
: relationship with the Reverend Wright. His
: motivations for distancing himself from
: Wright during the campaign are still unclear
: to me. If his motivation was purely
: political in nature, then we may be in for a
: bumpy ride in the coming years.
:
: The interview suggests, however, that our
: President-Elect has a sophisticated,
: carefully considered, view of the
: church/state divide.
:
: That gives me hope.
Being Christian, his clear support of the separation of Church and State was reassuring. (So many Christians who are rigid ideologues give the rest a bad name and make us uneasy.) I really didn't have any problem with the Rev. Wright thing. In my Catholic days I spent many an hour listening to things I didn't agree with. Any church is a community, with lots of divergence within it. People attend church for their own reasons, not to worship the messenger at the pulpit. (Except for cults.)+
And, like Obama, I even had close friendships with ministers (Prients, in my case), who were dogmatic and had goofball notions. Because they were intelligent we had some terrific discussions.
It's the extremist fundamentalists in all faiths who are closed-minded, can't/won't dialogue with anyone but their own, and demonize those who have different beliefs or views.
I think we hit the jackpot in this election. I, too, have hope.
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