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Uniter, not divider?
Christian Century, Dec 11, 2007
UNITER, NOT DIVIDER? Andrew Sullivan admits he doesn't know what kind of president Barack Obama would make, but he thinks that Obama is the only presidential candidate in either party who could end the culture war that has existed in the U.S. since the 1960s and has especially fractured the baby-boom generation.
(A Giuliani-Clinton duel would perpetuate and perhaps deepen the divide.) Sullivan thinks that Obama could bridge the divide between people of strong religious faith and people of no faith. Obama himself was raised in a secular environment and came to faith as an adult. He didn't have a born-again experience. "It came about as a choice and not an epiphany," Obama has said. Obama is able to use the language of evangelical Christianity without turning off secular Americans. "You cannot confront the complex challenges of domestic or foreign policy today unless you understand this [religious] gulf and its seriousness," says Sullivan. "You cannot lead the United States without having one foot in both the religious and secular camps" (Atlantic, December).
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