Among my favorite bloggers, the brilliant Vanderleun answers the question:
“Muslim? Silly Rabbits, Obama Has But One God….”
All that is beside the point. That Obama has a deep personal sympathy for Islam is beyond doubt. The President takes every opportunity to emphasize it. But he is not a Muslim, only the thrice-abandoned child and step-child of Muslims and an anthropologist mother who deeply sympathized with the struggle of Muslims to resist globalization.
He has a deep antipathy to the American view of things, insisting that “American exceptinalism” is no different than “Greek exceptionalism.” He belongs neither to the United States, nor to the Muslim world; he is a gifted outsider with a talent for persuasion who profiled Americans the way anthropologist profile primitive tribes, and in a variant of the old adventure-movie script, made himself our king.
Great comments on that blog. I especially liked the one about him becoming a Christian under Wright’s guidance. Never thought about it like that. Of course the ass in the air 5 times a day was pretty funny, too.
“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” (Truth & Tolerance, Pope Benedict XVI
The “gospel” preached from the pulpit of Rev. Jeremiah Wright
is one of “collective salvation” & “anti-American black liberation” & in no way, shape, or form resembles the message
given to the world by Jesus Christ!