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Religionists versus What??
January 20, 2009I was just over at CNN reading President Obama’s inagural speech, since I have no TV reception and therefore didn’t watch the big inaguration event. I thought the speech was pretty good until I got to this line:
“We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and nonbelievers.”
Um… WHAT??? I am not a religionist of any kind, but I’m sure not a nonbeliever either. I have an active spiritual life and am well acquainted with faith.
So here’s my first clue for President Obama’s speech writers: Many of us are believers who choose not to join a specific religion. Get with the program!
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Mountain Dweller
January 20th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Sorry that you don’t have any reception. I haven’t watched any of it myself.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I think he covered the vast majority of Americans…
January 20th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
But you also have to accept that there *are* millions and millions of nonbelievers. He obviously couldn’t list every single religion or choice of spiritual belief.
And President Obama wrote the vast majority of his speech himself, with advice from several Presidential historians and people close to him.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
@Tuesdayschild - I’m not big on politics… so don’t feel like I missed much. I hope he makes positive changes, and time will tell.
@Burstmode - well, if he covered the majority, the rest of us don’t count?
@Captain Mundo - yes, there are a lot of unbelievers… but he could have stuck in an “other believers” somehow. There are a lot of us! And I’m glad to hear he participated in writing the speech.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
…..and the world waits, hoping, too. Maggs