Barak

'the faith of Gideon, Barak, Samson...' Hebrews 11:32

I'm disgusted with Obama for revisiting a Buddhist temple in Kamakura. It seems his mother took him there as a kid, presumably teaching him the liberal value of tolerance for all faiths. But Christians who try to respect all faiths end up disrespecting their own. Did Jesus shed His blood for nothing? All religions cannot possibly be all true. If someone tells you 2+2=3, it is rude and disrespectful to agree out of fear of hurting their feelings. With over 300,000 suicides in Buddhist Japan in the last decade alone, being polite about Buddhism is like offering a sticking plaster to a man having a cardiac arrest- nice but totally useless.