CredAndBercuses

credit and debt are religious issues

I'd agree. Usury (being a bank, giving out loans at interest when there doesn't exist enough money in the system to cover that loan) was expressly warned against in the bible. Not to mention that any community based around usury is 100% built to fail eventually, and this is evident when we look at the history of such civilizations.

truetolife

Obama tried to separate himself from his church when he became President. But he attended a church headed by Jeremiah Wright who was into liberation theology. Some more info on this topic. http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2008/04/02/marxist-roots-black-liberation-theology