A fost in Biserica unita a lui Cristos din 1988 pana in 2008 cand a devenit presedinte. De atunci merge la o biserica "Southern Baptist", dar nu e membru oficial al acelui cult.
, Obama released a statement commenting on his religious views saying "I'm a Christian by choice. My family didn't—frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn't raise me in the church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the cand of life that I would want to lead—being my brothers' and sisters' keeper, treating others as they would treat me."
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