Barack Obama made some largely unnoticed comments in June of 2007 concerning the U.S. being "no longer a Christian nation" but also a nation of others including Muslims and nonbelievers. Obama was asked to clarify his remarks and repeated them to the Christian Broadcast Network. He stated in an email to CBN News senior national correspondent David Brody, "Whatever we once were, we're no longer just a Christian nation, we are also a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation and a nation of nonbelievers."

This may be news to the Pew Forum. In a 148-page study, released on February 26, 2008, by the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, they found that 78.4% of Americans are Christians, about 5% belong to other faith traditions and 16.1% are unaffiliated with any particular religion. The study was conducted for more than a year with interviews taking place from May 8 to August 13, 2007. The interviews were in English and Spanish with a representative sample from more than 35,000 adults and can be found at the pewforum.

The statement "no longer a Christian nation" plays to the non-majority. All in all the U.S. is a Christian nation. Barack Obama states that the Christian right exploits what divides us as a nation. Just what is he trying to do?

The Coalition Against Anti-Christian Rhetoric is airing a tv commercial in South Dakota juxtaposing the audio "no longer Christian" statement over images of the presidential candidate dressed in a Somali outfit and a picture of Barack Obama with his hands placed below his waist while other politicians have their hands over their hearts during the Pledge of Allegiance. What does this say about Obama? Where are his ties?  After all the Church he belonged to for 20 years had a Pastor (Jeremy Wright) that preached nothing but hate and divisiveness in stating, "God damn America."  No Christian minister does this?  What is Barack Obama trying to promote?