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Kirk - I have to admit I found your post regarding Obama and Islam to be quite interesting and certainly very thorough. However, my overwhelming feeling when I was reading it was: how sad, and deeply disturbing, that anyone who wants to have a hope of becoming leader of supposedly the most diverse and free country in the world, has to pretend to be a devout Christian to stand a chance.

It is sinister that he concealed his past and feigned allegiance to Christianity to succeed in US politics. But it's not the act of concealment that is sinister - but the very fact that he would simply have HAD to, or else be rejected by the people there.

Is that not strange?

Why is it essential that a US president be a devout Christian? Why is anything else considered "dark" or "sinister"? Of course this is a rhetorical question. I already know why.