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"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers." ⇒

   20 January 2009, late at night

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  1. What about buddhists?

    by Krishna on January 20 2009, 11:59 pm   #

  2. Apu: There are 500 million of us…
    Lovejoy: That’s just super

    We are on the same wavelength Ram

    by ahilan on January 21 2009, 2:20 am   #

  3. Exactly. Krishna man, you should know better.

    by ramanan on January 21 2009, 8:05 am   #

  4. Moe: I was born a snakehandler and I’ll die a snakehandler

    by ahilan on January 21 2009, 8:08 am   #

  5. I caught the simpsons reference (Homer creates his own religion, house catches on fire, reverend lovejoy says the line in the simpson house), but I am saying where do buddhists lie in that statement? Are christianity, islam, hinduism, and judaism the only religions with the concept of a god?

    by Krishna on January 21 2009, 10:50 am   #

  6. I think he was just naming a few religions. I mean, he could have kept going, but at some point it is ridiculous. Also, some Buddhists worship Buddha as if he was a god.

    by ramanan on January 21 2009, 11:08 am   #

  7. I was pretty impressed that he mentioned non-believers as well. But then he still went on to mention God in his speech, so that sort of took away from the atheist-love. Also, the phrase “non-believer” irritates me for some reason. It’s like calling Hindus the “non-Christians”.

    by Mahi on January 21 2009, 12:38 pm   #

  8. There is a shit load of God in the inauguration. I can’t believe they pray before they do the ceremony. WTF?

    by ramanan on January 21 2009, 12:50 pm   #

  9. I understand the irritation, but I suspect “non-believer” was selected because it includes both atheists and agnostics. Of course, I haven’t actually heard the speech so what do I know…

    by rishi on January 21 2009, 12:58 pm   #

  10. and believe it or not, there’s now a course at school called “law and religion in the public sphere” where religious people talk about how secularism hates them.

    We studied one of Obama’s speech on the very issue in our last class.

    by tiff on January 21 2009, 4:44 pm   #

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