Taken from the March 14, 2009 online edition of The New York Times.

Without a pastor of his own, Obama turns to five major world religions for spiritual inspiration. His heart and mind open to the teachings of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism: religions that have clashed and celebrated, warred and made peace. They are religions that often look at the other as the wrong way, with the misled leader, the faulty followers, the spurious scriptures. But Obama works within himself to break the human inclination to compartmentalize, to blindly shun what he does not know, to judge and reject, and he takes the valuable teachings of each religion and applies them to his life, to his presidency. And with eyes, ears and heart open to the world, he begins to lead a powerful country with the peaceful teachings of new friends—the world’s oldest and greatest leaders, long passed.

Wouldn't that be ideal?

The article.