Just moments ago I finished watching the speech Barack made on Faith and Politics found on this website here:
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I am not a Christian myself but I try to the best of my ability respect religions as I realize that they can bring a positive moral grounding and sincere upliftment to peoples lives.
I had before watching the speech a slight feeling of concern in regards to Barack being Christian. That perhaps it could result in simply a different flavor of what we have been experiencing from the current administration.
However, I think I can with honesty as much as humor say that the speech is the single best church sermon I've ever heard. My fears in this aspect were uneccessary. I felt his thoughts on the seperation of church and state balanced by not simply dismissing peoples belief systems from the floor of the debate was totally fair. In many ways the speech helped to crystalize in my own mind alot of my personal feelings on the subject that I have had trouble articulating before. I could genuinely respect the mans faith since he was not using it an excuse for the absence of questions and reason, or as an excuse for willfull ignorance.
I guess as is so often the case, Obama impressed me with his intelligence. The idea that secular and religious worlds do not have to exist exclusively of each other nor act as a wall blocking us from joining together as Americans.
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