"Obama first president to acknowledge non-believers"
In a myriad of firsts, one of the more striking -- but least noticed -- was President Barack Obama's tip of the hat to religious non-believers.
Obama, of course, is the first African-American to win the presidency, but his inaugural was also the first time a US president has ever explicitly acknowledged not just Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus, but "non-believers" as well.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers," Obama told the million-strong crowd.
"This inclusiveness is a signature moment in American inaugural history," says David Domke, professor of communications at the University of Washington in Seattle, who has analyzed religious language in seven decades of inaugural and State of the Union addresses, told USA Today.
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Posted 15 years ago #
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He forgot Buddhists.
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