What Does Obama Believe?

Here's a sobering piece by Sean Higgins, appearing in the American Spectator, that raises some questions about the values and belief system of Sen. Obama. For instance, is he an agnostic? It's a fair question to ask. The article offers a brief biographical sketch of a man who guards an inner core that remains elusive and mysterious. Touching on Obama's discussion of religion in his The Audacity of Hope, Higgins comments:

What is striking about the story it tells, though, is what isn't there: any sort of claim to a truly religious epiphany.

That's a key part of most conversion narratives. The skeptic casts aside doubt and takes the proverbial leap of faith, embracing the religion in all of its doctrines -- even the more peculiar ones.

Obama pretty clearly indicates that wasn't the case with him. At the end of the chapter Obama describes tucking his daughter into bed and trying to answer her question about what happens when we die.

"I wondered whether I should have told her the truth, that I wasn't sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure of where the soul resides," he writes.

No happy bedtime talk about heaven for this father.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13168