In 1988, a twenty-something, mixed race, son of a single mother decided to join a church in Chicago—seeking faith despite his formidable intellect’s natural inclination toward the contrary.  

Who did that little punk think he was?  

What’s more, this church had a pastor, one Jeremiah Wright, who was known to say some incendiary things regarding political matters, yet this kid had the elitist mentality—the audacity—to think he could decide for himself on those subjects while gleaning what he could to enrich his faith and spirituality.  Just because you’re going to head the Harvard Law Review one day doesn’t give you the right to employ critical thinking in church.  This is the United States of America, consarnit!  We don’t question what our pastors say!  

Allow me to quote C.S. Lewis to further illustrate my point.

What He wants of the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful, but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise—does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going. (You see how grovelling, how unspiritual, how irredeemably vulgar He is!)
This attitude, especially during sermons, creates the condition (most hostile to our whole policy) in which platitudes can become really audible to a human soul. There is hardly any sermon, or any book, which may not be dangerous to us if it is received in this temper.
-Screwtape

You see!  C.S. Lewis is the great Christian thinker of the 20th century, and even he says how bad Obama’s mindset is…

I can’t do this anymore—this sarcastic voice.  I’m so disgusted by what I’m hearing in the media about Obama and his pastor.  He was a conflicted kid when he joined Trinity, he made a courageous stand in not rejecting his reverend and their 20-year relationship during the first barrage of the controversy, and he looks downright presidential at this stage.  He’s displayed integrity and proper judgment though every moment of this election, and now he gets crucified for it.  It’s horrifying.

(for those who don’t know, Screwtape is a demon character of Lewis’ giving a rundown of soul-winning strategy to his demon nephew by mail.  He’s describing precisely the mindset Obama used in church—the proper mindset)