Perhaps you are correct. I find it difficult to discuss anyone's religion since it is a personal issue, HOWEVER, having read very very much about our President and his past...I am a bit leery when he gets into this arena (Religion)...

Before he was the nominee in 2008 in the discussion of WHY he joined Rev Wright's church, it was pretty much agreed by all that it was a political move, perhaps not entirely but it was political....This from US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT...."Obama also saw firsthand the central role that African-American churches played in the black community, providing solace, pride, and the motivation to persevere against adversity. He got to know Wright, the bombastic and charismatic pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ—whose angry sermons, widely perceived as anti-American and antiwhite, got Obama's presidential campaign into deep trouble a few weeks ago.

Political base. But there was personal motivation, too. Despite having little previous interest in religion, Obama joined Wright's growing church in part to deepen what one friend called "a whole web of relationships" in the community that gave him a strong political base and a well-connected mentor. At one point, Wright warned Obama that the ministers and other leaders in Chicago could be parochial and cynical, which would make Obama's job of organizing much harder. Obama soon learned this in a very personal way when one minister derided him at a public meeting for being a pawn of Chicago's whites because he tried to work with the Establishment."


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra...#ixzz10vscOIua

None of this has been denied at all....and most, if not all, stories of his past will reflect this choice as mostly political.

The second thing that bothers me about his past on this particular issue that Rev Wright taught ! In ONE OF his autobiographies (page 293 of Dreams of My Father), he mentions a speech that he recalls fondly that shaped much of his thinking...the speech, so that I dont take it out of contrast talks much about the needy and the poor but has this sentence that our President endorses or did at that point..."where white folks' greed runs a world in need,...

When you add to this, the basic foundation of Rev Wrights church which captured the President so totally until it became a political liability....."The church's mission statement is based upon systematized Black liberation theology that started with the works of James Hal Cone.[25][26]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright

Well, you see a common theme or two running through his "beliefs" and that is what makes me a bit leery of what he says about religion. It seems to be based on what is political expedient and thus gives credibility to BTK's post