QUOTE (jcsavestheday @ Jan 31 2008, 04:52 PM)
Could obama's not saluting the flag have to do with the fact that he's muslim? I think that it is the answer.
Obama is NOT muslim. His father was raised muslim, and not devout at all, but Obama himself was not religious until later on in his life. When he took up religion he joined a christian church.
He's also not black, but multi-racial.
From Wikipedia:
In Chapter 6 of the book (
The Audacity of Hope), titled "Faith," Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household." He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known." He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a
Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a
community organizer, came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change." Obama writes: "It was because of these newfound understandings—that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved—that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of
Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized."
[137] He has been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ for over twenty years.
Link to full entry. It's kinda long.
Oh yeah! Way to go Manning!
I usually only get sick about once a year, but when that happens, I'm dragging myself around for at least two weeks. I've missed way too much class lately... On the plus side, staying at home has allowed me to watch all of spook's season 6 DVD's and work on CI fanfiction. 