After reading Christopher Hitchens' fully-loaded attack on the church (it's bizarre! It's crackpot! It has a search engine-- "something called" Goodsearch! With a halo, no-less!) at which Barak Obama worships, and Mr. Obama's decision to 1) have a religion; 2) belong to a church; 3) belong to an "Afrocentric" church, I took Mr. Hitchens' recommendation and checked out the church's web site, the pastor's resume and related sites.
In a nutshell: 1) sorry -- I don't see anything scary or weird in the web site that won't be found in thousands of other even more mainstream religious sites; 2) the pastor seems to be well-regarded and has a significant educational background -- yes, he seems to be just as qualified to call himself reverend doctor as I assume the author is to call himself Christopher Hitchens; 3) a man with a Kenyan father belonging to a church with an African sensibility scares me no more than a Lithuanian-American belonging to a Lithuanian Orthodox Church; 4) the idea that Africans would want to carve out a somewhat separate space from the Euro-centric Christian world seems completely logical to me; 5) the search engine so disparaged seems to be legitimate and counts thousands of mainstream religious and secular charities among those who "raise money for X with every search." For his next article, perhaps Mr. Hitchens will target the SPCA?
If Mr. Hitchens wants to get this Athiest riled up about the candidates' religious foibles, he's going to have to do a better job than this.
