G. Frink's

Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election might not have been the end of the culture wars, but it is certainly winding them down.

Frank Scheaffer, himself a former religious right advocate, points out that Obama's election reintroduces nuance to the American political and theological discourse.

He writes:

As our new president recognizes, self-awareness and mortality are already such a mutually exclusive (and terrifying) contradiction that accepting a few more contradictions is par for the course! And President elect Obama has a generous enough spirit and a large enough intellect so that he can do with his spiritual life, what the Religious Right and the New Atheists have not done: understand that there is no shame in embracing paradox.

President Obama is about to make reasoned faith fashionable again.

I think it's time for that. Don't you?