FALSANI:
Have you always been a Christian?
OBAMA:
I was raised more by my mother and my mother was Christian.
*NOTE: He did not answer the question.
FALSANI:
Who’s Jesus to you?
(He laughs nervously)
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OBAMA:
Right.
Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.
And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.