I haven't given up. Been working on a tribe, vandals. One question I have to both of you.
How a can a tribe no longer exist? Are they saying there is just not a tribe named vandals? The bloodline is still somewhere, right? We are all a mixture of some sort right or wrong?
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Have you guys seen the new political leader in Ill.? He was the keynote speaker for the Democrats convention. His name is Barack Obama. And he is running for US SENATE FOR ILL. I find him very interesting for the times we live in. Let me know if you think I have gone off the deep end:)
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Obama's theological point of view was shaped by his uniquely multicultural upbringing. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white mother who came from Protestant Midwestern stock and a black African father who hailed from the Luo tribe of Kenya.
Obama describes his father, after whom he is named, as "agnostic." His paternal grandfather was a Muslim. His mother, he says, was a Christian.
"My mother, who I think had as much influence on my values as anybody, was not someone who wore her religion on her sleeve," he says. "We'd go to church for Easter. She wasn't a 'church lady.' "
In his 1993 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Obama describes his mother as "a lonely witness for secular humanism."
"My mother's confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn't possess, a faith that she would refuse to describe as religious; that, in fact, her experience told her was sacrilegious: a faith that rational, thoughtful people could shape their own destiny," he says in the book.
When he was 6 years old, after his parents divorced, Obama moved with his mother and her new husband -- a non-practicing Muslim -- to Indonesia, where he lived until he was 10 and attended a Roman Catholic school.
http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/spirit/cst-nws-spirit05.html
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040531fa_fact1