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Personally, if I was doing the writing or speaking, and if I felt I had to mention religion at all, I would say “We are a majority (or “predominantly”) (80%?) Christian nation”. End of case.
And, honestly, after the non-religious, the agnostics and the atheists – - the respective percentages of Jews, Buddhists, and Muslims in the population are so small as to be “negligible”.
But if one insists on mentioning these latter three – how about Shinto? Santeria? Voodoo? And untold other versions and variants of “religion”?
Personally, I think Obama’s speechwriter is a nitwit for even bringing up the matter and I would have hoped Obama would have known enough to skip making any such distinctions.
But – if he ABSOLUTELY HAD TO mention “religion” – why not just say “While we are a predominantly Christian nation – - we constitutionally protect the right of every citizen to practice his or her religion of choice, whether Judaism, Islam, Buddhism or any other religion – - as well as protecting the equal rights all of our non-believers”.
???
In the end, I think it was foolish of Obama to make the distinctions he made – and I think it’s even more foolish for the author of the above article to be bitching about his favorite religion’s placement in Obama’s listing!