In Obama's speech discussing "The Connection Between Faith and Politics", Obama talks to a large crowd of highly religious people about some of the problems the United States has been having due to religion and politics.
He first begins to mention Alan Keyes who ran against him in the 2004 U.S. Senate General Election. Obama quotes that Mr. Keyes said, "Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama. Christ would not vote for Obama because Obama has behaved in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved." Then Senator Barack Obama responds that he “is running for U.S. Senator of Illinois not the Minister of Illinois. This is where Obama first points out that the government isn’t made to get people to believe in religion. Although some religious ideas are brought into government and politics, it cannot be the fundamental component of government. He brings in the idea that politics should not have to follow a certain type of religion or base its laws and regulations by any.
He states that the United States is not defining oneself as a red or blue state but instead is choosing politics purely because of religion. He means that the political party preference should be determined by what citizens believe is the best for their country. Political parties should not advocate religious traditions and beliefs.
Senator Obama mentioned that he grew up without really having a religious setting in his household. He describes how later into his life he became closer to church as a source of “hope”. What he is trying to express by this is that every person has their way of looking for faith or hope. Many of the United States is divided by religious population as well as there is a population of non-believers, for which we should all agree on making laws that are fair to everyone regardless of religion.
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