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"Racism is still America's greatest addiction," Pfleger says. "I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."There seems to be a mixed reaction to that from the pews. But Pfleger explains:"If the greatest command is to love, than the sin against love must be the greatest sin against God who IS love and who calls us to love one another. So that this greatest sin against God, racism, it's as natural as the air we breath."Obama, of course, resigned from Trinity on Friday, saying he didn't want to be held accountable for every word spoken from the pulpit at the church, and he didn't want the church to continue to have the media disrupting its worship. The last straw may have been Pfleger's mocking of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, from the pulpit in this same sermon.But Obama's relationship with Pfleger -- who is the priest at a different, Catholic, church -- spans decades.