by Lee Stranahan
HuffPo is highlighting a 2004 interview with Barack Obama about religion and it reveals (shock) an intelligent, actualized human being's approach to faith. This quote spoke to me...
I think that each of us when we walk into our church or mosque or synagogue are interpreting that experience in different ways, are reading scriptures in different ways and are arriving at our own understanding at different ways and in different phases. ...
The wider implications of this line of thought are the essence of why tolerance, patience, and curiosity are Post-Obama political virtues. It's very easy to brand our 'enemies' as being of one mind because they go to a certain church or belong to some organization. But people - actual people - are a lot more complex. Any given Mormon or NRA member or Republican may have the same self doubts, questions, reservations, caveats or internal struggles as you've had in the privacy of your mind.