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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Obama’s Mention of ‘Non-Believers’ doesn't herald new secularism

Pete Winn of CNS writes:

Conservative religious leaders say they don’t believe that President Obama intended to signal a new role for secularists and atheists in the post-election world Tuesday, when he mentioned “non-believers” in his inaugural speech.

“We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers,” Obama pointedly said during an oration in bitter winds on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

But the new president may have been playing to the crowd, according to Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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