Obama's Faith

The most extensive interview with Obama about his faith was in 2004 by Cathleen Falsani. You can read the transcript here. You can read commentary by other faith leaders here. It is very insightful. In short,

• He believes his good deeds will earn him eternal rewards
• He believes there are "many paths" to God
• He believes sin is "being out of alignment with his values"
• He believes Jesus was a good teacher (never confesses he is the divine Son of God)
  
• His grandparents were members of a Universalist Church

In response to a follow-up question about not believing in Hell, he responds quite revealingly:

"I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell.

I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity.

That's just not part of my religious makeup.

Part of the reason I think it's always difficult for public figures to talk about this is that the nature of politics is that you want to have everybody like you and project the best possible traits onto you. Oftentimes that's by being as vague as possible, or appealing to the lowest commong denominators. The more specific and detailed you are on issues as personal and fundamental as your faith, the more potentially dangerous it is." (emphasis by ahavafriend)