Based on remarks President-elect Obama made to Cathleen Falsani four years ago (and recently reprinted on Beliefnet), there’s been a dustup over whether he can legitimately be said to be a Christian:
Joe Carter at Culture11 says no.
Rod Dreher echoes him.
Tony Jones says Yes He Can.
Steve Waldman points out that if Barack Obama isn’t strictly orthodox in his theology (particularly his soteriology), that makes him just like 70% of his fellow Protestants.
I won’t venture a guess about the state of Obama’s soul. I’ll just point out that if he’s not precisely orthodox, he’s no different from our most evangelical president.
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