""There are aspects of Christian tradition that I'm comfortable with and aspects that I'm not. There are passages of the Bible that make perfect sense to me and others that I go, 'Ya know, I'm not sure about that,'" he said, shrugging and stammering slightly.
It would have been easier for the senator-cum-president to answer, simply, "Yes," to the evangelical question.
But for Obama, as for many of us, faith is complicated, messy, a work in progress.
And, if we're honest about it, the standard labels just don't fit."
- Cathleen Falsani asks Sen. Obama the question and his full answer
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