Letters

摘要

I Generally Vote Democratic, But until I read "Finding His Faith" (July 21), I hadn't really found any compelling connection to Barack Obama beyond agreement with many of his policies. I know he is a Christian, but I didn't know how he came to his Christian faith. It was not simply a continuation of his parents' beliefs. He found his religion by personal search, by intellectual and spiritual journey. He does what I want a president to do: he thinks things through. That's what we need, America. My Christianity Encourages Kind-ness and forgiveness, and reminds us that Jesus loves us all. After his spiritual searches at Columbia University, Senator Obama finally arrived at the church where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. espoused a vastly different oudook, one of anger and hate. It was there that Obama befriended Wright and accepted him as a spiritual adviser. After two decades as a member of the Reverend's flock, Obama renounced the association when it became politically expedient to do so. His is not the form of Christianity with which I am comfortable.