Do people actually know what religion Barack Obama is a member of?

Most of the people who claim that the Senator is a Muslim and attended a Muslim school do so only because of his name. They are relatively unsophisticated, live in little Podunk towns across American, practice racial bigotry and hatred, are uneducated or undereducated, get their news and information from like-minded friends and relatives. They don't read quality newspapers or watch quality TV news. They come from a culture where fear and religion are the guiding principles of their lives.

They are unsophisticated, semi-literate, have no understanding of the world outside their 50 mile radius. They judge everyone by their looks, the color of their skin, their name (Any name with more than 4 syllables is considered "foreign") - and the church they attend - or not attend.

There are generations of people behind them in their small world. Relatively ignorant, fearful, self-righteous. Most can't find "Indonesia" on a map, much less spell it or know anything about the culture there.

Most have no idea of the politics outside their little Podunk town. They are unable to find the country of Brazil or the District of Columbia or the nation of Thailand on a map. Few know who their state legislators are.

It doesn't matter WHAT information is put before them - about the Senator or anything else, they will cling to their ignorance. They have no comfort level outside their little circle.

For those who are interested, who want to be informed, who want to learn anything at all, I offer the following information:

From Robert Gibbs, the senator’s spokesman, a statement slams Insight magazine and Fox News for reporting unsubstantiated, false information:

“If (Steve) Doocy or the staff at Fox and Friends had taken to check their facts, or simply made a call to his office, they would have learned that Senator Obama was not educated in a Madrassa, was not raised as a Muslim, and was not raised by his father – an atheist Obama met once in his life before he died.

Mr. Gibbs continued:

All of the claims about Senator Obama’s faith and education raised in the Insight Magazine story and repeated on Fox News are false. Senator Obama was raised in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother. Obama’s stepfather worked for a U.S. oil company, and sent his stepson to two years of Catholic school, as well as two years of public school. As Obama described it, “Without the money to go to the international school that most expatriate children attended, I went to local Indonesian schools and ran the streets with the children of farmers, servants, tailors, and clerks.” [The Audacity of Hope, p. 274]

To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago. Furthermore, the Indonesian school Obama attended in Jakarta is a public school that is not and never has been a Madrassa.

These malicious, irresponsible charges are precisely the kind of politics the American people have grown tired of, and that Senator Obama is trying to change by focusing on bringing people together to solve our common problems.

The senator’s staff attached a letter from religious leaders objecting to this attack on Mr. Obama.

His religion is not important. The important question is whether he's a member of Skull and Bones or some other secret group.

We lend too much credence to who is president. The executive branch is only one out of three. We should be paying more attention to who is elected to the US House of Representatives and the Senate. They are the ones who are supposed to enforce the checks and balances on the executive branch. As you can easily see that is not happening anymore.

Obama isn't a Muslim. submit to in recommendations the terrorist communities in eire (the IRA and the Ulster Defence affiliation ) have been the two Christians. We ought to be careful to submit to in recommendations that terrorism is provided in many varieties. Timothy McVeigh, an American, blew up the Federal development in Oklahoma and killed hundreds. Eric Rudolph, an American and convicted Abortion sanatorium bomber, killed 2 those with bombs, consisting of bombing the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and injured over one hundred fifty. He became linked with the terrorist white supremacist team, Christian identity. Christianity isn't immune from extremists and terrorists. Jesus reported to love thy enemy. Mohammad, the prophet of Islam, reported in case you kill one guy or woman, you kill all of humanity.

Until I read some of the answers above, I didn't know or care. Nor did it cross my mind. I look at candidates for their positions on the subjects that concern me. I don't feel religion is relative.

Barack Obama is a Christian and there is no proof whatsoever that he is a Muslim. His name is Muslim, but he was named by his Muslim father, and he did not get to choose his name. But you should not avoid voting for certain people based on what their religion is.

The majority of people know he is a Chrisitian.

Hopefully not the same as Bush and Cheney since they appear Godless...

Yep.... Just check out what his pastor preaches...

He has admitted to being raised a Muslim and then converted to Christianity. He currently belongs to a Black Seperatist Church that advocates Communism and claims that Blacks are the chosen people , not the Jews.

United Church of Christ