Barack Obama on absolute truth
politics, philosophy, liberalism, relativism, ideology, left wing, history, american
September 8th, 2008
The Founders did believe in absolute truth and further believed that having a free society required it. (See, for example, the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
-- the Declaration of Independence
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
-- George Washington, farewell address
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-- John Adams
Barack Obama believes our involvement in military hostilities in Iraq is an unjust war, and he believes this with absolute certainty.