Is President Obama secretly an atheist, who fakes being a Christian for political reasons?

[DirkGently]

52. But we do all think fundamentalists are crazy, right?

There's a lot of doubletalk surrounding religion in American politics. It's not politically viable to be a non-believer in most cases, but if someone were to take the podium and start talking about recent conversations with Jesus, the coming Apocalypse, or any of a number of less savory parts of the Bible, we'd think they were nuts.

What the majority of Americans seem to require is lip service to the idea of religion. Our culture seems to argue that someone who doesn't believe in the Judeo-Christian god is morally suspect, but at the same time a literal belief in the supernatural is a bit much for most people.

The result is a lot of weird hypocrisy and silliness. Obama, for example, appears to be a middle-of-the-road Christian, but the fundamentalist right tries to scrutinize and attack him for not being observant enough, while the rest of us worry when he invites homophobic reverends to public events.

So which is it, really? Do want believers, non-believers, or this queer gray area where our leaders identify as religious, but don't embrace a literal belief in things that contradict reality?