On a morning of countless firsts in U.S. history, add this: Barack Obama’s inaugural speech is the first time a president has ever explicitly acknowledged not only “Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus” but non-believers as well.
“This inclusiveness is a signature moment in American inaugural history,” says David Domke, professor of communications at the University of Washington in Seattle, who has analyzed religious language in seven decades of inaugural and State of the Union addresses.
[blockquote]”This inclusiveness is a signature moment in American inaugural history,”[/blockquote]
But wait a minute: Obama didn’t [i]truly[/i] include “non-believers” in his inauguration. Why, he didn’t even ask a non-believing pastor to say any prayers . . .
Oh! . . . Umm, sorry . . .
There was a lot of God-talk in the speech so the non-believers will still have something to complain about.
I acknowledge non-believers too. Every day when I pray they will come to faith and salvation in Christ. 😉
[blockquote]Obama acknowledges ‘non-believers’[/blockquote]
Twice, in fact. I’ll leave it to the gentle reader to point out the first such acknowledgement.