Thursday, August 19, 2010

Obama's Religion - Does it Matter?

As an atheist, I really don't care what someone's religion is. Except for Islam, because as a woman, I find Islam to be a very frightening religion. At least, the Sharia law part of it, which keeps my sisters in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan and other primitive countries living in degredation and fear.

We in the US talk about our freedom - it's the only thing that makes life worth living, and it's something that women in fundamentalist Muslim countries don't have. (Yes, there are fundamentalist Christian sects where women are also treated as third-class citizens, but those are sects, not the whole country.)

Anyway, so Rush has opened his program talking about an article today that says that more Americans than ever believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Glenn Beck was talking about this earlier as well. Beck says he believe Obama is a Christian, but one who believes in Liberation theology.

I'd never known what Liberation theology was - it is preached by Reverend Jeremiah Wright who was Obama's priest for 20 years - I'd assumed it was just the belief that black people should live apart from whites and not embrace middle-classness.

But apparently it means -- according to Glenn Beck - that no one should be poor. As long as one person is poor, no one else has the right to be rich [I paraphrase what he's saying] and their wealth must be taken away from them and given to the poor.

We've been giving money to the poor for a long time. We have more poor now than ever.

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