• Barack Obama is a member of United Church of Christ.

• Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, who was brought up as a Baptist, were most recently
members of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. This Church holds close the black
liberation theology and its importance on authorizing groups exploited by establishment forces.

• Barack Obama had been a active member in this church for twenty years.  This is where he
was married and his children were baptized. 

• In 2008, Barack and Michelle Obama resigned their membership in the Trinity United Church
of Christ in Chicago. The resignation followed offensive comments by Rev. Michael Pfleger and Rev.
Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

• Daniel Pipes stated that Obama was brought up as a Muslim because he attended Koran classes
in 4th grade at a Muslim school in Jakarta, Indonesia. CNN stated that even though he did study in a
Muslim school for a couple of years, it was a non religious public school attended by people of
different religions. 

• Obama states that he was brought up in a non religious atmosphere. His father was an
atheist and his mother was one of the most spiritually awakened persons that he's ever known.
According to Obama, "Religion for her was just one of the many ways ? and not necessarily the best
way ? that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our
lives."

• Obama proclaims that he is a Christian in all ways. He stressed that when he was being
sworn into office, he had put his hands on the family bible and when he is in the United States
senate, he pledges allegiance to the flag of USA.

• Obama's paternal grandfather was a Muslim, and he did attend a Muslum school in Indonesia.
He uses these aspects to tell us that he will be able to handle foreign policy better and to bring
in a new face to parts of the world where USA is not well liked. 

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