Ann Coulter Gets It Wrong About Obama's Faith

In yesterday's column at Townhall.com, Ann Coulter declared that Obama "is obviously an atheist." She states, "The only evidence for Obama's Christianity is that he faithfully attended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years."

Let's get a couple of things straight here. First, that is not the only evidence of Obama's Christianity. In fact, in April of this year Obama spoke at an Easter prayer breakfast on what the Resurrection means to him personally. I seriously doubt that any Christian would argue with his remarks on a theological level.

Second, let's look at Coulter's wrong conclusion. Her conclusion of Obama being an obvious atheist stems from Trinity United Church of Christ teaching a liberation theology doctrine (a concept of Social Christianity). Let's go back a few years and look at the Catholic Church in Latin America. From the 1950's until 1984 (when the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith condemned it), liberation theology was very popular among Catholics in Latin America as a way to express their faith. I'm sure Ann would love to declare that every one of the people who taught and practiced liberation theology in the Catholic Church was "obviously an atheist."