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So I have just caught up on a little bit of controversy surrounding Obama. I knew that he was going to push many people’s comfort level in the religion/state topic, but I should have seen this coming. Apparently James Dobson has taken it on himself to fight the good fight against Obama and has taken one of his speeches to point out why Obama is not the candidate for Christians. You can read about it here, see Obama’s speech here, and here about it from Scott McKnight here.

Basically, Dobson takes Obam’s speech and uses everything he can to try to make it sound like Obama is saying something unchristian. I have read the blow by blow here. Personally, I think McKnight is easy on Dobson. It’s Dobson and people like him who give in to knee jerk responses to Obama that make me cringe at calling myself a christian. It’s annoying and infantile. Even worse are the people who listen to this kind of slander and are persuaded by it, or use it to comvince themselves of what they already believe about people.

I talked with someone yesterday who is convinced that Obama is a Muslim. I have seen the Obama as Jesus t-shirts as well. I guess at this point I am just wondering what if anything an American president can do to change this country. It seems we, as a group, are dead set on proving that democracy doesn’t really work when people choose to be ignorant of the facts.