Reply #77: I am truly sorry for everyone here hurt by Christians.

[knitter4democracy]

I can understand why some here are so angry--they've been hurt in the name of a faith that says they shouldn't have been hurt in the first place. Growing up evangelical, I'm afraid that I most likely hurt people when I embraced that path so much that I refused to date in high school unless it was the right kind of Christian guy, and there weren't many of those.

Look, Obama is sharing here his personal story, his personal faith, and he's doing it to try to reach across the divide between liberal and conservative Christians. I'm personally fine with that. Heck, I'd be fine if he got up there and told of how Christians were hypocrites that hurt people, too. That's not his story, though, so that's why he didn't share that.

He felt a need to be washed and made new again. He's not the only one, and Christianity's not the only faith that requires that kind of conversion experience in some form. I don't think he's a bad Dem or a bad person for feeling that need and turning to faith to fill it.