BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU THROW THOSE ROCKS. WHAT MAKES THEM WILLING TO SUSPEND REASON AND LATCH ONTO SOME ABSURD DETAIL THAT BECOMES FOR THEM REALITY? WHY DO THEY HATE THE MAN SO MUCH? For weeks I have been receiving a steady stream of ridiculous bits of nonsense about Barack Hussein Obama, and I wonder if the people who send them to me truly, truly believe the stories are true. If they do, I am left to wonder what happened in their life experience and in their schooling to make them willing to suspend common sense. Some of the e-mails come from old friends and even from relatives who got them from who knows where. I know for a fact that they didn’t make the stories up themselves, so who is it who deliberately writes and then publishes stuff that anybody with a good, inquiring mind and a fourth grade education should recognize as illogical. Oh, yeah! I almost forgot. There is Fox News. In these digital tracts the subject is often the President’s religion... a story of "hidden truth" about the most famous man in the world who is a Muslim living in disguise as a Christian in the most famous house in the world. In the first place, it isn’t supposed to matter in this country what a person's religion is. In the second place, the people closest to him, his wife and children, go to church with him and participate in church in all the ways that Christians participate. And about that expressed belief that all Muslims are terrorists: It should be clear to just about anybody with even a smidgen of natural curiosity that just as there are people in the large Christian community who are selfish, misinformed, poorly educated, mean, heartless, and misguided when it comes to other people... people who would self-identify as Christians who are actually murderous monsters... there are probably just about the same percentage of Muslims who do terrible things. Remember the Nazis and their Fuehrer (leader) Adolph Hitler... and how the majority of people in a Christian nation bought into the notion that it was O.K. to call him "fuehrer," the name he gave himself... and how many of them fell right into his project to conquer the world, and how they somehow went along with his effort to eliminate Jews and homosexuals from the earth? Remember?

Why is it so difficult for some people to let the terrorists who happen to be Muslims blind them to the fact that most Muslims are just like most Christians. Most Christians are pretty nice people most of the time. Why is it so difficult for some people to see that the Muslim terrorists are not like most Muslims. My family and I lived for four years in a part of the world where Islam is the dominant religion. We know from first hand experience with our neighbors and from people who worked for us that Muslims are mostly really good people... just as Christians are mostly really good people.

BUT THAT DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PRESIDENT’S RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION.

Someone sent me a picture today of President Obama taking off his shoes before kneeling in a mosque. I have done the very same thing dozens of times. I am a Christian. It's what civil people do when they are invited to come into a mosque. Taking off his shoes is exactly what I expect Barak Hussein Obama, the self-identified Christian, to do in the same situation. What’s the big deal? I have also worn a kippah if it was expected of me when I entered a synagogue. Jewish men wear them as a respect for God. I didn’t become a Jew by putting on a kippah. I can put on a kippah in a synagogue, and I can take off my shoes in a mosque... and still remain a Christian when I do so. What I can’t do and remain a credible Christian is pass around stories designed to smear the name and honor of any other person, even the President of the United States.