Hopefully Wright isn’t responsible for Obama’s Old Testament knowledge:

[A]t the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion’s den, Ezekiel’s field of dry bones.

UPDATE: Yes, to the hundred e-mailers who pointed this out in the last 15 minutes, I’m well aware that Christians were fed to lions in Roman arenas. But Daniel was the one thrown into the lion’s den, and in the context of the other old testament stories, Obama obviously meant to refer to Daniel.

It was a minor mistake on his part signifying little or nothing (perhaps his speechwriters’ unfamiliarity with the subject matter). I only brought it up as a light-hearted afterthought. It was not meant to be a scathing indictment or anything, so I ask the Obamaniacs to take it easy, please. No one intends to throw him to the lions over it.