Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl Marx, Part 2
From the outset of his campaign, Barack Obama has declared himself to be a Christian. He has appeared to be the far left’s answer to the religious right, the man who would embrace the religion of the majority rather than shy away from it, as Democrat secularists have repeatedly done. For awhile, until Obama’s actual “religion” became clear through the rantings of those who have formed his “moral compass”, it did appear that Barack Obama would beat the religious right at their own “game.”
But the foibles of faking faith can be quite the undoing of a man who proclaims to be above the low-road politics of deceit.
Religion and revolutionaries
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
- Karl Marx
We need to take faith seriously not simply to block the religious right but to engage all persons of faith in the larger project of American renewal.
- Barack Obama; The Audacity of Hope; p. 216