Friday, January 23, 2009

Obama first president to acknowledge non-believers

In a myriad of firsts, one of the more striking -- but least noticed -- was President Barack Obama's tip of the hat to religious non-believers.

Obama, of course, is the first African-American to win the presidency, but his inaugural was also the first time a US president has ever explicitly acknowledged not just Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus, but "non-believers" as well.

More HERE.

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