Is Obama an Elitist?
Keith_Indy on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Keith's Page
Finally, someone else is bringing up the same point I’ve been making about Obama’s remarks at that SanFran fundraiser…
For a man who clings to a racist black preacher as tightly as Obama has clung to Reverend Wright, it’s odd that he would speak of clinging to religion as a small-town phenomenon that grew out of bitterness. Someone might think that he’s projecting his own reason for clinging to religion onto white people, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.
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Likewise, I don’t know anybody who “clings to” religion out of bitterness. In fact, the people I know who are truly bitter invariably become atheists. It’s the people with faith and hope who cling to religion. Surely Obama knows this from his own experience and from the religious people in his life. Does he really think white people cling to religion for reasons so radically different from black people?
Or is he actually admitting that while he attends Rev. Wright’s church, Obama himself doesn’t actually believe in religion — he just knows that going to church is something a politician has to do? And Rev. Wright was his friend, so it might as well be his church? To explain away religious faith as, in effect, the “opiate of the people” — something you cling to because your life is so awful — is a position, not of a believer, but of the atheistic intellectual Left.
Read the rest as sci fi author Orson Scott Card deconstructs what Obama said, and what it implies. At least in his view.
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