Misquoted in similar letters to the editor to the San Angelo Standard-Times, Date: 2008-07-29 and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Date: 2008-07-29, and many identical posts under different names to various online news sites, quoted in (2008-08-26), "Obama and the “Christian Nation” Quote", Factcheck.org
• President Obama actually said, in his keynote address to Sojourners magazine's "Call to Renewal" conference on Date: 2006-06-28 (see above), "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."
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We are no longer a Christian nation; we are now a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists.

— Barack Obama

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We are no longer a Christian nation; we are now a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists." in the context of "Misquoted in similar letters to the editor to the San Angelo Standard-Times, Date: 2008-07-29 and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Date: 2008-07-29, and many identical posts under different names to various online news sites, quoted in (2008-08-26), "Obama and the “Christian Nation” Quote", Factcheck.org
• President Obama actually said, in his keynote address to Sojourners magazine's "Call to Renewal" conference on Date: 2006-06-28 (see above), "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Misattributed) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed February 05, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Barack Obama

About Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States of America from 2009 to 2017. Born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas, he won the 2008 presidential election and was re-elected president in November 2012. A member of the U.S. Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Before becoming president, he represented the 13th district for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 and served as United States senator from Illinois between January 4, 2005 and November 16, 2008. While president, he was the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.