There has been ample talk about God in Politics as of recent. The media has largely encamped the story on Senator Barach Obama's former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been accused of being anti-american in his remarks behind the pulpit. Wright's comments are as such, "the government gives them [African Americans] the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme." In addition to damning America, Reverend Jeremiah told his congregation on the Sunday after September 11 that the United States had brought on Al Queda's attacks because of its own terrorism.
Barach Obama has denounced and strongly condemned his former pastor and all of his statements. The dilemma of this former pastor in regards to his statements against America has greatly hurt the campaign of Barach Obama to which the reverend had once belonged. Barach has said that since the statements are "so contrary to my own life and beliefs," many have legitimately raised questions about his relationship with Wright and Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. In the January 2007 Chicago tribune, Obama spoke of the pastor as a spiritual mentor and role model who helped keep his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated. The controversy of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's remarks might very well be the crucial deciding factor of Obama's fate in this 2008 Election.
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