Reply #6: Faith of Our Mothers vs Right Wing-Nuts [View All]

[Vogon_Glory]

I find it shocking (Though not all that surprising) that the right wing would attack Senator Obama for his alleged religious connections. We're all too acquainted with religious conservatives' claims that Christianity is the ONLY one TRUE religion, often accompanied by the claim that their particular Christian sect is the ONLY true way. Yet Barack Obama's father was not only an inactive Muslim, but an atheist as well.

Which leads to an interesting line of speculation. Do Religious Right-Wingers believe that just as only certain kinds of Christians practice the only true religion, do they also believe that ONLY certain kinds of Christians can be true atheists? Do Religious Right-Wingers also believe that religious faith is ONLY transmitted through the father? Do Religious Right-Wingers also believe that children of atheists who then have spiritual awakenings AUTOMATICALLY head back to whatever religious background their atheist father had before he chose the path of non-belief, and that whatever spiritual background their mothers had is of NO account?

Senator Obama had a mother, and she did NOT come from an Islamic background. Why are Right-Wingers denigrating her background and her religious beliefs?



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