Obama and Religion

Certain right-wing news organizations are still promoting the myth that President Obama is a secret Muslim. The reason they say he’s a secret Muslim, rather than a regular Muslim, is because he calls himself a Christian, attended a Christian church in Chicago for twenty years before he ran for President, was married by the Reverend of that church, and has never been spotted close to a mosque, much less inside one. At the National Prayer Breakfast he spoke about how his Christian faith has influenced his life. With so much appearance of being an ordinary Christian, he simply must be a secret Muslim … a very secret Muslim. Acting Christian is just a con. So they claim.

It so happens that I know part of the truth in this matter (who can ever know the whole truth of anything?), and I’m going to set the record straight. You read it on this blog first. Here it is: Obama is actually a Christian pretending to be a Muslim pretending to be a Christian. It’s a double con – kind of like that 1982 movie Victor Victoria in which Julie Andrews plays a struggling female soprano who pretends to be a man to get a job as a female impersonator. Now as I said, I don’t know the whole truth, so I admit it’s entirely possible that Obama is a Muslim pretending to be a Christian pretending to be a Muslim pretending to be a Christian. That would make it a double-reverse con.

I know what you’re thinking: the double-reverse con sounds stupid. It’s one con too far. I agree, it sounds pretty farfetched. But how about the double con? A Muslim pretends to be a Christian pretending to be a Muslim. Does that sound stupid, too? It does! Only in the movies would something like that work, and then not for long. We got rid of one layer of the con and it’s still too complicated.