According to the New York Times, Barack Obama was sorry to leave the church he's belonged to for the last twenty years, because:
"This is where I found Jesus Christ, where we were married, where our children were baptized."
So he "found Jesus Christ" no more than twenty years ago. He's forty-six now, which means he became a Christian at age twenty-six. Maybe twenty-five. Maybe he was irreligious before this conversion. Maybe not.
Of course, one problem is, since he was born to and raised by Muslims, he will be presumed to have been Muslim himself. If he converted away at a young enough age, there are authorities who won't call for his head.
But there are going to be many who will. And I have a feeling many of those will be the very people he's willing to meet with, "without preconditions".
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