| | To compound matters, Obama's mother, Ann Durham, was a [[secular humanism|secular humanist]] which is a type of [[Atheism|atheist]]. | | To compound matters, Obama's mother, Ann Durham, was a [[secular humanism|secular humanist]] which is a type of [[Atheism|atheist]]. |
| − | Obama's birth father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr,, was an ex-Muslim who became an [[Anglican]] at the young age of six years old. He later became an atheist. Barack Obama declared: "[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1546579,00.html My spiritual journey]". Time magazine, "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." | + | Obama's birth father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr,, was an ex-Muslim who became an [[Anglican]] at the young age of six years old. He later became an atheist. Barack Obama declared in a Time Magazine article entitled "[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1546579,00.html My spiritual journey]": "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." |
| | :Rebuttal: Obama's assertions are more self-serving than factual. Very few Muslims leave their religion, and atheism is extremely rare about Africans and African Americans. | | :Rebuttal: Obama's assertions are more self-serving than factual. Very few Muslims leave their religion, and atheism is extremely rare about Africans and African Americans. |