One can be staunch in faith and not think that the government needs to be invloved in it and those of us without faith don't simply explain away what we don't understand. That's actually what those of faith do when they spin fanciful stories to explain things that confuse them.

I could care less that Obama has faith so long as he does not insist I support it with my tax dollars or try to make me live by what ever silly rules his religion has.

"We are a congregation which is Unashamedly White and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the White religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are a European people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of Roman slavery, the days of Irish segregation, and the long night of anti-Slav racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a White worship service and ministries which address the White Community."

http://www.trinitychicago.org/index.php?…

Sounds kind of different when you change just a few words... PRESTO! Vision statement of one of those kooky Aryan Nations "churches". I shit on your double standards!

@2: UCC churches are normally really white-bread ones that were founded by abolitionists, and I doubt Trinity's yoga or girl scout groups have the Southern Poverty Law Center tracking them. Just a hunch.

"@2: UCC churches are normally really white-bread ones that were founded by abolitionists,"
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Yeah but Obama didn't attend one of those "normal" ones for over 20 years, he attended the one with a fucked up racist vision statement, period.

There's a difference between mentioning race/dealing with the fallout from racism and being a violent separatist. Trinity ministers to African-Americans, and I don't think that mentioning that fact means they're locked-down racist Black Israelites pointing an AK through a turret slot, which is what you seem to be inferring.

I thought Enigma wrote a thoughtful review. She should review more books.

As long as mormons get egged and buckets of piss rain down on the scientologists and/or larouchies (what's the difference, really?), all is well.