What religion is or was Barack Obama, Sr?

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1. Muzzie
2. Wiki is your friend
3. i have gotten emails saying that his family is muslim and he was raised muslim, but i don't know whether or not they are true
4. What does it matter? Obama's parents separated when he was two -- he basically grew up without a father.
5. Muslim, supposedly, though whether or not that is true doesn't function at all towards Obama the candidate. His father's influence over his life, and therefore the Muslim religion's influence as well, ended before he could even form words. He's a Christian, and that's all. But I do want to get this straight. If Obama was a Muslim, that should not be a problem either, and anyone who thinks so is blind to what that means.
6. Presidental candidate Obama, was born of a Muslim father and an atheist mother, who in his own words was "a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, and position paper liberalism." She divorced when he was two years old and remarried another Muslim living in Indonesia, where the young man was educated in Catholic and Muslim schools in one of the most radical Islamic countries in the world. Though his father and stepfather were both Muslim, he tries to mitigate their religion by saying that by the time his mother married them, they had become atheists. After he was ten years old, he mostly was raised by his atheist grandparents. The New York Daily News reports that he changed his life in his junior year of college at Columbia: he said he stopped doing drugs, ran three miles a day, and "He went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives..." After graduating Columbia and then Harvard, he began working in Chicago supporting socialism programs. He recruited a local United Church of Christ Church on a government-sponsored community outreach. Around 1988, he joined the church because, he says, "that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved." And always has proclaimed, Africa as his first priority. The United Church of Christ, is not to be confused with the "Church of Christ." The United Church of Christ, where he met Oprah, however, supports homosexual marriage, abortion, environmental justice, globalism, the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian movement and believes that Israel is illegally occupying the covenant land. The UCC seems to conveniently justify and legitimize his beliefs that social progressivism is equal to Christ and he writes in his memoirs that his own salvation was not an "epiphany." He reasoned after his daughter asked about life after death, "I wasn't sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang." His name is Barak Hussein Obama. And he is running for President. He is courting evangelical Christians from the pulpit at Rick Warren's Saddleback church and by using public proclamations reported in the news media. Some Christians are saying he is a Democrat that evangelical Christians can support. Many have suggested that his Islamic and atheist upbringing combined with his socialism progressive membership in the United Church of Christ make him an outstanding presidential candidate. Others believe he may be a threat to the national security. Will the real Obama please stand up? Jesus said in Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
7. I suppose it does not really matter what Obama Jr.'s religion is, does it? As long as he is fair-minded, impartial and respects the sanctity of others, he could very well make a good leader. A good leader need not be judged by what religion he practices, but by what substance, honour and worthy accomplishments he can deliver to his followers.
8. He reportedly is a Christian now but hasn't been one long and rarely goes to church. His dad was Muslim but there are no reports he was a "Radical Muslim". He did also go to a Muslim school and his mom said it was because it was the best. All Muslims are not bad just the radicals. He spent 5 years in Indonesia he went to a Muslim and Catholic School. He will not adhere to the US Code of conduct as shown here where he refuses to put his hand over his heart during the Star Spangled Banner... http://cayankee.blogs.com/cayankee/images/2007/10/21/harkin_steak_fry_08.jpg I think he is only a "Christian" for political reasons. I'm voting Republican to much is on the line to have a President who so ed not respect the country and it's traditions.
9. Atheist. But if you listen to the Hillary Sleaze, Muslim.
10. If I'm not mistaken, I think he is/was a Muslim. Barack's mother on the other hand was something different all together.