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To: LindyBill who wrote (259203)	7/25/2008 3:59:20 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

"They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives, something that will relieve a chronic loneliness or lift them above the exhausting, relentless toll of daily life. They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them -- that they are not just destined to travel down a long highway toward nothingness." Obama was describing the appeal of Christianity here, as I recall. Hugh Hewitt reacted to the quote by crying, "I don't believe in Christianity for a narrative arc to my life! I believe it because it's true!" ...and I thought, Hugh's right. Obama claims to be a believer, but his every word proclaims that he is just pretending. He doesn't believe. He wouldn't say these things if he did, not in this way. He would talk about God somewhere in there, not just people's yearning for meaning. Maybe Obama is an agnostic who would like to believe but can't. Maybe he's just a hypocrite. But he doesn't talk like a believer.