By Selwyn Duke

Increasingly, Americans might say the following about Barack Obama: “He’s definitely a man who has faith….

In what, I have no idea.”

There’s good reason to wonder. Despite Obama’s claims of piety, his words and deeds speak otherwise. For example, during a trip to Indonesia, Obama told an audience that America’s motto was “E pluribus unum” (“From many, one” in Latin) when, in reality, “In god we trust” was made our official national motto by an act of Congress in 1956. And while this could be chalked up to ignorance, something else the president did cannot be. While rendering the Declaration of Independence line “they [all men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” he omitted the word “Creator” – on three different occasions. Add to this the fact that a 2010 poll showed that one in five Americans believes Obama is a Muslim (he’s actually a de facto atheist), and it’s clear that, whether or not Obama was right in saying “we’re no longer just a Christian nation,” many citizens believe that we certainly no longer have just a Christian president.

Well aware of this perception, the White House is taking measures to develop some religious street cred. While Obama has seldom attended church during his tenure, he has made an effort to do so more in recent times. And as religion reporter David Gibson wrote, “Politico's Carol E. Lee also tracked Obama's recent religious rhetoric and says that he has used the phrase ‘Christian faith’ more in the past three months than he has over the past year.”

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