I haven't been following the to-do about Barack Obama's preacher-man very closely, because I've already read enough to know this: people who think that Wright's words have anything to say about Obama don't just misunderstand Obama -- whose record on racial harmony seems pretty unassailable -- but they also misunderstand religion, too. And they misunderstand religion in a way typical of smug, myopic Americans.
Let me explain.
There is, underlying all the debate about whether Obama should be held accountable for Wright's...
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