“I’ve been following politics since I was about 5. I’ve never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament. This is surprising.”
            Chris Matthews, MSNBC, 2-5-08
            Obama Is NOT My Messiah
                                                                                 (popular conservative bumper sticker)
             The public projections onto Obama have focused with special intensity on his religious background, which by any measure is complex and unorthodox.  He is by far the most religiously unusual President in US history.
             Obama was primarily …