National Prayer Breakfast: President Obama Mentions Humanists

Barack Obama continues to push the presidential envelope, it would seem, when it comes to making a place at the table for non-theists and non-believers.

At today's National Prayer Breakfast, an event that snubs the non-prayerful in name if not in fact, the president is quoted as saying "We subscribe to different accounts of how we came to be here and where we’re going next – and some subscribe to no faith at all..." (emphasis added). Later in the same address he explicitly includes humanists with religious groups that abide by the Golden Rule as the "one law that binds all great religions together".

Something's in the air. Read the entire text here and an interesting blog entry in The Economist here.