Obama Resigns From Trinity Church – From The Road — I guess he didn’t want to go this Sunday.
Barack Obama has formally resigned from his church, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
It had to have been a painful decision, as Obama just cut the line to his religious anchor, but the church had become a weapon for his political enemies. The Trinity Church was the place Obama called his religious home. A place where he was married. Where his children were baptized. Where he was friends with the congregation and its minister, Jeremiah Wright.
If Obama has any more problems with his Christian affiliations, he’ll probably start wishing he were Muslim after all, like the emails say he is.
I guess he’ll do anything to become president. Even give up his faith.
It’s a shame, I guess.
#2 – eric
It would have been great if he did, but really… when did he say that he’ll give up his faith?
Something that strikes me is a normal politician would have resigned from Trinity the moment the Rev. Wright tapes surfaced. There would have been no speech, there would have been no attempt to do the right thing at a personal level and make the right thing the political response.
Sen. Obama tried to do right by everyone and not make the simple, cold, political choice. It took this long with the continued pounding of the press and the ignorant pressure of white America for him to finally face the fact that in order for this not to be an issue in the fall, it needed to be done.
To me, that speaks volumes about the man and more about the statesman who lives by example the ‘this is not politics as usual’ credo.
*btw, I am a white American from the boonies myself
It doesn’t matter anyway.
All of them USE piety as a selling point.
This is the way it has been since the chief of the village shared power with the shaman.
Obama is a plutocrat like all the rest. The dollar is their god.
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@Joffi: It does speak volumes about Obama. He was happy to stay there for two decades and participate in the same crap from which he now retracts in a last minute to grab the nomination/potential presidency. At least Clinton’s are transparent about their triple-face-nes.
After twenty years only honest move would be remaining in and fighting to snap that place out of racism and hatred to the Christian message… (As the option of leaving honestly have expired some nineteen years ago).
So Obama – a man who spent 20 years attending a church, was married in the church, and had his two children baptized in the church, simply quits because of a few video clips “that were taken out of context” and did not represent the real beliefs of Trinity.
Seems the increase in the number of “distractions” are showing Barack’s thin skin or lack of a backbone.
It’s about time that religion was kicked out of politics.
Yawn…
Some complete and utter moron said
I guess he’ll do anything to become president. Even give up his faith.
Really? Is that the only church in the world where he is allowed to practice his faith?
How interesting.
Personally I would be delighted if he really did give up his faith. Belief in religion is a mental illness.
Gotta love the ‘he’s giving up his faith!’ Apparently unaware that there is more than one church where one can practice their faith.
Ideally religious backgrounds would have no bearing on an election, as it obviously has no bearing on one’s political policies. Bush ran on a ‘moral’ agenda, and look how corrupt an administration he’s run?
Let’s kick all religions out of all politics and focus on issues that actually matter: foreign policy, economics, you know, important stuff.
On a related note, you all HAVE to see this: http://tinyurl.com/3t34ch
[Thanks for not Rick Rolling us. Cool article. - ed.]
#12, good one! Actually not a bad idea IMO.
#12 – Mister Ketchup
That was a good one.
Obama needs to further the separation of church and state. I think the whole ” religion” angle really alienates a lot of the youthful / intellectual voters.
Church of Christ is a congregational church (as is Disciples of Christ my late mom’s nominal church). If you change congregations, you change the religious dogma, which might be very liberal, very conservative, or somewhere in between. Obama probably decided quitting that church was the right thing to do, both politically and morally.
#12: Funny! The black guy has a sense of humor too!
#15, I agree with what you said. Presidents should not make decisions based on their religious beliefs, but on the facts of the matter.
“They caught him ridin’ dirty.” = Required an apology.
This weekend’s story about insiders telling Clinton to stop fucking around. = News.
Personally, Obama would have locked up my vote if he would have stayed with the church. Leaving after 20 years just proves he’s another chameleon politician.
#17 – Go ahead and vote for Hillary then.
http://tinyurl.com/5z9zg2
#18 – I’ll take a pass on that one. I heard Bob Barr is running…
>>you change the religious dogma
Well, no you don’t. As the polity of the church mandates that “the basic unit of the life and organization of the United Church of Christ is the local church”, you may find liberals, conservatives, mainstreamers, or fringe wackos as predominating in the congregation (and hence the political views of the church) vary significantly from church to church. However, the “religous dogma” remains the same.
In general, most UCC’ers are probably more on the liberal side than most other churches (Unitarians excepted). Most believers who want to be told what to do in every aspect of their lives go to a church that tells them what to do (like fundie evangelical or Roman Catholic).