Obama's spirituality is largely private, but it's influential, advisers say - washingtonpost.com

Obama's spirituality is largely private, but it's influential, advisers say - washingtonpost.com: "Every morning, sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m., a short religious passage comes across President Obama's BlackBerry, sent by one of his aides.

At other moments, Obama prays privately, his advisers said. And when he takes his family to Camp David on the weekends, a Navy chaplain ministers to them, with the daughters attending a form of Sunday school there.

More than a year into his presidency, Obama has not chosen a church in Washington, and has attended services just four times. No single figure has assumed the role of spiritual adviser -- publicly, at least -- or filled the vacancy created when Obama disavowed his former Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

When Obama appears at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday morning -- a regular presidential ritual -- it will mark the rare occasion when he puts religion in the foreground. In that appearance, he will discuss 'the need for civility in the public square, and how Americans can work together in a spirit of goodwill,' a senior administration official said."


Obama was raised a Muslim, can recite the passages to a tee and still sends blessings to his Muslim brothers when he speaks in their occupied lands. We saw him pray as a Muslim at the wall in Mecca with great reverence. Yet he is the only president to routinely blow off services here and he calls us a Muslim country.
If he is a Muslim, he should come right out and say it. But he won't. Much like his race, he is not the first black president, but rather a half black man since his mother was white. he is a liar plain and simple.
~~~ The Munz