>>> A third of Americans believe, incorrectly, that Obama himself is Muslim.
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>>>It's one in five. <s>
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>>>He never said one word about "being a Christian" under he started to run for president - there are many who believe he did this for political expediency.
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>>>The Egyptian Foreign Minister (Ahmed Aboul Gheit ) said last summer that Obama admitted to him that he (Obama) was still a Muslim
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>>>There's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, per se - there is something wrong with not being truthful about it. I'm an atheist - I've been an athiest since I was 5 years old - you can't get more "dangerous" than admitting that. It takes stones to admit it.
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>>I am still steamed about this post. The Egyptian Foreign Minister can say whatever he likes, if he even said it. It doesn't make it true. Not exactly a disinterested party.
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>>No, I do not have evidence to the contrary. But I think this "news" is 100% unadulterated BS. This is exactly what I meant about nonsense flying around the internet.
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>>And now you want us to believe you decided you were an atheist at the age of 5. That takes self aggrandizement to a new level.
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>I knew what my core beliefs were at age 5. I was not an atheist, but I certainly already knew what I believed to be true about God, spirituality, and much much more.

I am impressed, then. I had only the faintest notion of God, other than what I had been told in Sunday school, and had no idea of spirituality. About as much as I knew was that I liked Lassie and throwing rocks at the street sign near my house in a nowhere little town in Maine. When we moved to the city (by Maine standards) halfway through my first grade year I started becoming a bit more aware. But church was just where my parents took me on Sundays and I did not have any more profound thoughts about it until probably the early teens. So my hat is off to you and Victor ;-)