This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…
…nation’s corridors of power.” Obama’s political application of Genesis in Denver (one of at least three scriptural allusions in his acceptance speech) is a case in point. “I am my brother’s keeper,” he declares, a slight revision of the actual biblical story. God asks Cain where his brother Abel is; Cain, who has of course murdered Abel, indignantly demands, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The reasonable response is not “Yes”; it’s, “Answer the quest…
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