On
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006, Barack Obama gave a speech regarding religion and
politics. He gave this speech because He believes that he has a solution to our
problem of religion and politics interfering with each other, causing
conflict.
Obama
begins his speech trying to capture the audience's attention by bringing up a
highly debated topic: religion. At the beginning of the speech he tries to
appeal to people's emotions by making them feel bad for him. He decided to talk
about when another politician said, "Jesus Christ would not vote for
Barack Obama." I believe the reason he brought this up was simply to make
people feel bad for him, thus more willing to listen to him and accept what he'
saying by looking past the facts and figures and simply relying on their
feelings.
In
his speech he talks a lot about how the biggest gaps in our society are between
the religious and non-religious. He said they argue over moral issues like gays
marriage, abortion and other socio-ethical issues. He goes on and on about how
religion has caused and is causing a majority of problems and conflicts in
today’s society.
Throughout
the speech Obama also mentions that religion can be a good thing to base your
life on and certain religious teachings can be good for society and government.
He mentioned in part of his speech that they could increase tax dollars to help
poor children receive an education because the Bible teaches us that we should
help people who are not as privileged as us, especially when they’re children.
Obama
ends the speech in what seems like an attempt to make himself look better. He
brings up something that He did wrong, blames his staff for it, then proceeds
to appeal to people’s emotions by saying his prayer which was, “A
hope that we can live with one another in a way that reconciles the beliefs of
each with the good of all.” Which is obviously something that
almost everyone wants, so mentioning that he prayed it must have been a strategy
to get his audience on his side.
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