On here local CLTV, and currently as readable at http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1270217,CST-NWS-farr10.article , Louis Farrakhan is saying that Obama's victory was "directed by God", and that apparently God wants him to not himself or by Congressional "hamstring" use money for the South or anything else Louis doesn't approve of, because Louis represents in nature of all Obama voters of color want is money to have a chance at life, and all Obama voters not of color want to do is admit they are too well off, could lose easily twice what they have now what with everybody from Christians Bush through Daley ( in fact, would gladly give away all to atone and wear sackcloth while ever after beating selves with stones ), and want all nay saying to this silenced as a vast right-wing conspiracy against the will of God...who obviously created "vessels of wrath" damned from birth anyway in such folks identified by their counterpoints, and who can thusly be squelched and otherwise brushed away as expediency suits.

You know, Democrats and all their neo-evangelical boosters, including Farrakhan, chafed at the very mention by Bush several years ago that he felt he was appointed by God; um, no matter your secular and/or religious "-ism(s)" or not, still, aren't we all a part of the same money supply-base economy and thus hope therein; and do most Obama voters REALLY feel that way as a matter of God's will "approved by clergy and sent on for discernment by the laity for agreement as article of faith"? Come on, the unchurched of all stripes and races and preferences greatly outnumber ALL USA faith-based pulpits put together.

Everyone, including Minister Farrakhan, has an absolute right to their peaceful exercise of their religion...yet no religion is actually the faith: a faith is Islam, Judaism, Christianity, what have you, based upon set principles which all commonly reduce to doing the right, merciful, and soberly fair things by and between yourselves, believers, non-believers, every person you meet without bias of any humanly possibly nature. Calvinist or Puritan "vessels of wrath", term as identified even by former renowned Baptist minister and writer/educator Harvey G. Cox, meaning folks you can enslave or do away with or as you please in God's name, can manifest in any mere religion's practices, membership decisions, scope of social service entitlements, and subliminals...whether you want to exclude from play around a fixed small money supply, or advocate slavery, or silence pointing out your promises don't work, or you're a defender of faith like a Pope called Hitler or bin Laden calls himself re Islam, on and on it goes...yet, NONE have anything to do with what the actual faith is about, and could be why, again, so many different faiths' people for DECADES have voluntarily made themselves "unchurched" while claiming to be Muslim, Christian, Jewish, what have you.

Plato (427-327 B.C.) believed that earth was of divine origin and that souls existed, simple; Seneca ( 4 B.C.- 65 A.D.) said "religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful". Obviously, these two men were reflecting back even before the dawn of Judaism, and themselves existed before even Taoism or Islam or Christianity...they do however establish there is nothing new under any age's sun that officials try having cake and eating it too via manipulating what a religion (not faith) can be made to look like.

I had great hope when I saw the 240,000 invitation-only Grant Park crowd cheering Obama election 11-04-08 included leadership of the Universal Life Church...doing the right thing by all people its only credo; I hope that such faith will not see Obama and Democrats continue huge money funding of religions even the unchurched diverse majority of Americans don't visit, nor see Obama agree or state that he is in any way of divine makeup or design per officialdom, nor see America have Bush's Third Term via simply inserting "swarthy conservative-lapping scum who KNOW we're right on say-so about litanies of social bads kicking folks out of economy/hearing" instead of "swarthy scum who embolden  or provoke terrorists and enemies of the USA with their flapping liberal-lapping gums".

Stopping government mega-millions for religions which provide "social justice/poverty help"...in ways which would appear as mass Socialism if handled by government directly...might be a step in the right direction re true change even the unchurched large majority of Americans could believe in.