George Michael Would Be Proud
According to the man himself, Barack Obama's policies are strongly influenced by his religious faith. What sort of faith? As Obama puts it:
Not a blind faith, not a faith of mere words, not a faith that ignores science, but an active searching faith. It's a faith that does not look at the hardship and pain and suffering in the world and use it all as an excuse for inaction or cynicism, but one that accepts the fact that although we are not going to solve every problem here on earth, we can make a difference.I'd just as soon keep faith out of politics, and I know plenty of people who agree with me, based on what they've said about Bush, so I certainly hope they'll be speaking out against Obama soon.
He also had a proposal for a special tax to cover war spending. Well, we're spending less on the military than usual for most of the past 60 years, so I don't think we need a special tax for that, but I like the idea--any new program should have a special, separate tax so we'll know what we're paying for.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:21 AM
2 Comments:
Please criticize for necessary dissimulation not for any supernaturalist beliefs - he's basically using the language of faith to say he doesn't really have any of the type understood by pulpit types (whether he realizes that is another question)
Anonymous 11:06 is correct. There's nothing inherently religious about that type of faith. Indeed, take away the word "religious" and it's precisely the type of humanism that is often subjected to critique by some more sophisticated religious scholars as being no less faith-based than their own views. Professor Fish had a piece on this in the NYTimes in reviewing the latest round of pro-atheism books by Hitchens et al.
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