Major Freakout Over One Word in the Inaugural Address or "Obama A Heretic and SERIeS Threat"

[K Gardner]

This just blew me away. And to justify this *storm over nothing, the article cites most of the uproar as coming from "African-Americans". I've also heard several times on MSM that most of the audience at the inaugural was "African-American", so I guess that's the meme for this week, even tho its the Fundies they're obviously referencing in this rightwing freakout they're trying to turn into a news story. Disgusting.

http://news.aol.com/article/obamas-nonbeliever-nod-unsettles-some/316339

(Jan. 23) - Not everyone was happy with President Barack Obama's nod to nonbelievers and non-Christians in his inaugural address. And some of the stiff criticism about Obama’s religious inclusiveness is coming from African-American Christians who maintain that no, all faiths were actually not created equal.

"For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness," the new president said. "We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this earth," he also said. Nothing too controversial, proclaiming that America's strength lies in its diversity.
But between those two statements, the new president got specific: "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers."

By mentioning, for the first time in an inaugural address, the 16.1 percent of Americans who check "no"’ when asked about religion, Obama turned it into the most controversial line in his speech -- praised by The New York Times editorial board and cited by some Christians as evidence that he is a heretic, and in his well-spoken way, a serious threat.

With that one line, the president "seems to be trying to redefine American culture, which is distinctively Christian," said’ Bishop E.W. Jackson of the Exodus Faith Ministries in Chesapeake, Va. "The overwhelming majority of Americans identify as Christians, and what disturbs me is that he seems to be trying to redefine who we are.’"