Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tells CBN news that “America is no longer just a Christian nation” and laid out ways both religious conservatives and liberals can begin to find common ground.”

Obama believes that religious conservatives need to accept the fact that America has evolved and government policies need to encompass all faiths because the country is no longer just a Christian nation.

In a speech last month to a church convention, Senator Obama told the audience, “Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it’s because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us.”

“I don’t think it’s helpful as candidates or as a country to get into discussions about who’s more religious. That sounds a little like storing up treasures on earth to me. I’ve just always been clear that my Christian faith has motivated me for twenty years and I’m not ashamed to talk about it, or the role that faith should play in our American life.”

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