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Obama's 2004 Interview On Faith And Religion
(With a
hat tip to Z!)
The
interview, at
Beliefnet is quite long. I noticed this statement by Obama toward the beginning of the interview:
I was raised more by my mother and my mother was Christian.
But over at
WikiAnswers, we read the following:
According to the Audacity of Hope Barack Obama's mother was an atheist.
And over at
this site, we read the following excerpt from
The Audacity of Hope:I was not raised in a religious household. For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. However, in her mind, a working knowledge of the world's great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.
On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.
One more excerpt from
the interview at
Beliefnet, when Obama was asked "What is sin?":
Being out of alignment with my values.
Please read
the entire 2004 interview at
Beliefnet. There is much more to the interview.
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