I was glad to see posted to change.gov Obama's earlier stance on faith; in the Christian strands, and limited to issue of God's universality, the old Roman Catholic Archbishop Fulton John Sheen, Baptist Harvey G. Cox, and Lutherans Martin Luther (q.v., "The Three Walls" part of Luther's "An Appeal To The Ruling Class Of Germany For The Amelioration Of The State Of Christendom", 1520 AD) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (AD 20th Century) need to be reflected upon, as they all spoke to the universality of one God...as Sheen said of the whole world we shouldn't seek melding of governments just meeting of people reflecting on God; said Lutherans also said incarnation of Christ perfectly joined God to all mankind without need for ANY religion othe than Christ's rather simple and COMPLETE "directions".

Of course, anyone familiar with Christ's sayings themselves, and I charge this against anyone wearing a collar on precept He is God, has to know even Christ said no one disciple can ever be "better" than another, that ALL people on earth who simply do God's will as Christ might define are Christ's brothers and sisters, and for those not into Baptisms or listening to Christ, Christ Himself in John inter alia asks His Father to not destroy such people but still protect them from the evil one.

Christ Himself also doesn't sound like much of a hair splitter on many people other than any nature of hypocrite...which even then are to be left alone by man's hands but are warned of one day meeting God for explanation at judgment...again, something like any nature of Calvinism or Calvinsit-like "better you than me" seems to be not Christ's idea, since He says God will judge the heart not the physical person...and Christ makes no mentions about sexuality either. You could also say there's nothing about a DIVINE Christ that would find Him "visiting most bestes buddy preacher folk" in non-parousia ways to "amend what He plumb forgot back when"...by implication of divinity, Christ cannot be "known" more "perfectly" by Benedict XVI, Jimmy Swaggart, Tony Perkins, me, or anyone else.

Again, this July I myself switched to the Universal Life Church, and enjoy its social issue and universality worldview. It's refreshing to see a man like Obama emerge, to the view of Buckley Conservatives such as myself, from an imagined totalist atheist spectre to a visage of a man better understanding most assorted religions better than many of their own government-installed, or government-pressured, or self-serving  clergy do.

Insofar as faith initiatives, like Buckley I say government and charity do best with lives of their own; however, I trust whatever new pathways Obama will decide upon re faith in his Presidency...there are plenty of voluntarily "unchurched" millions in the USA, mainly as they are tired of decades of advancing political psyops under guise of true original faith, and really, government should not restrict survival of peaceful religions to those best able to channel the spirit of Sigmund Freud rather than the Holy Spirit.