Obama rounds on religious right
Barack Obama has had the courage to call out the religious right in the United States on the way that they have "hijacked" faith to suit their own agenda.
He began by highlighting the ways in which he feels religion serves a useful purpose in the United States:
But then he turned his attention towards the religious right:Mr. Obama said that religion has a rightful role to play in American politics, and he praised people of faith who he said are now using their influence to try to unite Americans against problems like poverty, AIDS, the health care crisis and the violence in Darfur.
“My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work,” he said.
“But somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together,” Mr. Obama said. “Faith started being used to drive us apart. Faith got hijacked.”
He attributed this partly to “the so-called leaders of the Christian right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us.”
It's good to see that there's an American politician with the guts to take these nutcases on. For far too long they have simply been pandered to, especially by the current resident of the White House who spends too much time sending his silly coded messages which only makes him sound as if English is not his first language.
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