B.O.: Terrible At Drawing Lessons From Reality

"It was,...puzzling how a major statement about religion could seem so detached from religion. Obama projected himself as a floating spectator of other people's beliefs (as in his memory of hearing the call to prayer in Indonesia). Though he identified himself as a Christian, there was no sign that it goes very deep. Christianity seemed like a badge or school scarf, a testament of affiliation without spiritual convictions or constraints,...

...By approaching religion with the cool, neutral voice of the American professional elite, Obama was sometimes simplistic and even inadvertently condescending,....

...At the finale, his recitation of soft-focus quotes from the Koran, Talmud and Bible came perilously close to a fuzzy New Age syncretism of 'all religions are the same',...."

-- Camille Paglia, who (as a NewAger) shouldn't be surprised by our NewAge president's "simplistic and,...condescending" outlook - that is how NewAgers see things - but still sounding really disappointed, while writing on Salon.