Obamas trostillhörighet fortsätter att vara en fråga som engagerar. Fox News (bland många andra) rapporterar om hur Obama svarade när han nyligen fick frågan om sin religiösa tillhörighet. I sitt svar förklarar han att han inte fick en religiös uppfostran, utan att kristendomen var ett val han gjorde.
Vi har tidigare skrivit om frågan i samband med en undersökning som visar att var femte amerikan tror att Obama är muslim.
”My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the Church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life I would want to lead,” he said, adding that Jesus taught the world humility.
”Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings — that we’re sinful and we’re flawed and we make mistakes and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God. But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. And so that’s what I strive to do. That’s what I pray to do every day. I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith,” the president said.