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Obama Passing "No Religion" Test
newsweek.washingtonpost.com ^ | May 22, 2008 | Jacques Berlinerblau

Posted on 05/23/2008 1:20:29 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Watching the Oregon returns on CNN last Tuesday night, I was intrigued by an odd statistic: among those who described themselves as professing “no religion,” 61% cast their ballot for Senator Obama.

I proceeded to scour Democratic exit polls to see if this was some sort of fluke. It was no fluke: of the 30 states where I could find comparable data, Obama won the “no religion” crowd an astonishing 26 times!

... Obama’s popularity among this cohort is at once baffling and understandable. It is understandable because its members tend to be younger, better educated, predominantly male, gainfully employed and overwhelmingly white. In other words, his “no religion” supporters are an electoral Frankenstein, a conglomeration of parts that have made up his coalition.

But now we come to the baffling part. Next to Huckabee, Obama has had the honor of being The Candidate Most Likely to Go Christ-y On the Electorate.

His rhetoric abounds in scriptural allusions. The cadences of the African-American Church are deliberately intoned in much of his oratory. He has publicly stated that he would like to rethink his Party’s traditional aversion to permitting religion in the public square. In short, for secularists, Obama should trigger fight or flight responses.

But this has rarely come to pass. The secularists I speak with usually mention three arguments for ignoring his faith-based exuberance. The first--and most dubious--is that Obama is just pandering to crucial voting blocks and will regain his senses upon moving into the White House.

More plausibly, others suggest that his background as a student and scholar of constitutional law insures that he will never violate the sanctity of The Wall. Last, it is often remarked that Obama is a true liberal. Secularists, so I have been told, have little to fear from a true liberal.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irreligiousleft; obama; or2008
Even the Left doesn't know what Obama is but it's interesting that some of them think he is a liar and that is OK. How often have they screamed and had a fit that "Bush is a liar"?
1 posted on 05/23/2008 1:20:30 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Obama is an irreligious socialist at best, and he is a closet muslim/homosexual/communist at worst.

He is the company that he keeps, and his company is mostly black racists, communists, anti-government anarchists and other nefarious nasties.

I will never trust him.

NEVER.


2 posted on 05/23/2008 1:51:56 AM PDT by Prole (Pray for the families of Chris and Channon.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He’s pandering to liberal Christians when he goes all messianic on people.

He’s got the most liberal voting record in the Senate; why wouldn’t the “no religion” crowd go for him ? I’m frankly surprised that 4 of the 30 didn’t.


3 posted on 05/23/2008 2:50:06 AM PDT by fuzzy dunlop
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To: All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCTe87IxfU

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http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=122164

“Media ignores Obama concert negatives”
Jeff Johnson - OneNewsNow - 5/22/2008 12:00:00 PM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At least some members of the much-touted crowd of 75,000 people at a May 18 rally in Portland for Barack Obama may have been there, in part, to see a popular local band that normally opens its concerts with the national anthem — of the former Soviet Union.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “By not mentioning the band, Knight says, the media has been able to avoid a well-known fact about The Decemberists. “You’d think the media would find it interesting that a presidential candidate had a band open for him that typically plays the Soviet national anthem, the song that celebrates communism in Russia,” Knight says. “But the media has taken no interest in it.””


4 posted on 05/23/2008 3:04:36 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Berlin_Freeper
It's imperative that Hussein be shown for who he truly is. Stanley Kurtz had a fine article in National Review titled “Left in Church” which talks in depth about the false messiahs connections with various radical elements in Chicago. This goes far deeper than the rantings of Rev. Wright. He needs to be exposed for who he really is. The MSM will not do it for obvious reasons. It's going to have to be up to us. This article is very disturbing and puts to rest the idea that Hussein had no idea of what was going on around him.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjRhNDQ4MGFlYjk0YzUwNDk0MzYyNTE1ZDkwYmNmNDc=

5 posted on 05/23/2008 3:35:29 AM PDT by RU88 (The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Ah, they don’t have “no religion”, they’ve made government into their religion and Obama is their latest Prophet.


6 posted on 05/23/2008 4:12:39 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (I'm just a typical bitter, white, heteronormative space worm clinging to guns and God.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Good, old Jacques is tip-toeing around the real issue. The issue isn’t folks with “no religion.” The problem is leftists with a Stalinist attutude and their consequent hostile actions toward religion.


7 posted on 05/23/2008 4:37:40 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Governments hate armed citizens more than armed criminals)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Those who have no religion have probably been compelled to play make believe and “act” like they believe at some time in their lives. So they recognize a fellow phony when they see one. It’s kind of a Godless gaydar, they know what they are looking at when they see barack mcgovern.


8 posted on 05/23/2008 4:45:39 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The problem here is accepting the designation "no religion group."

People claiming not to have a religion usually do. It is not called that, but it is called " Government" (please use a capital "G"), Environmentalism (Capital E like any good religion) and you can come up with a few more.

The hallmark of a religion is a deeply held belief on the basis of faith that influences everyday life. At the very least "Government" and "Environmentalism" meet this test.

9 posted on 05/23/2008 5:07:02 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Obama’s popularity among this cohort is at once baffling and understandable. It is understandable because its members tend to be younger, better educated, predominantly male, gainfully employed and overwhelmingly white.

Oh yes, it is only those uneducated white male Bible Thumpers in flyover country that don't have the wisdom to see that Obama is the most brilliant man ever to walk this earth....

10 posted on 05/23/2008 6:12:39 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: shrinkermd

The problem here is accepting the designation “no religion group.”

I don’t find this surprising. Politics is the religion of the left.


11 posted on 05/23/2008 6:34:26 AM PDT by y6162
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He will be speaking in S. FL tonight.

I asked a couple of co-workers who have BHO stickers on their cars if they were “going to church” tonight.

The understood and were none too happy with my comment.

To which I replied; “I’ve had to put up with your Bush-bashing for too many years. Now it is only fair that it is my turn to make fun of your messiah.

Turns out that there are many going tonight. THey are gatherign in whisper-groups around the office.

There seems to be a sinister side to their attraction to this guy.

Like another article mentioned today, I’m a bit concerned that if he gets elected, it may be “pay back time”.


12 posted on 05/23/2008 7:03:32 AM PDT by woollyone (100rnds bought per week adds up to over 5000 rounds gathered in a year...just saying!)
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To: shrinkermd

I want to see Barack Obama humiliated. I want to see him brought to his knees. I want his political career ruined.

............................

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Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
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13 posted on 05/23/2008 8:34:40 AM PDT by cyberella
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"No Religion" Test

In spiritual things, as in physical things, nature abhors a vacuum.

If there is a space in which the Truth does not dwell (because men have chosen to reject Truth), lies, deception, and falseness are glad to take its place. And they will. 100% of the time.

But...

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty."

This, of course, is why evil individuals have worked so hard to drive the Spirit of the Lord from the public square in modern America.

Put Him back, whether they like it or not, and they cannot and will not stand.

14 posted on 05/23/2008 8:47:13 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("I have a clear record of working with Dems. I will appoint Dems to my administration." -Sen McCain)
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