Barack Obama shares struggles with faith, policy, and politics

Read this excerpt of Barack Obama's autobiography discussing his Faith. I will write later about connections between his struggle with faith and comments of Imam W. Deen Mohammed at the 2006 Ramadan Lectures.

My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition.

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