Fox contributor Erick Erickson parroted Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) to cast doubt on President Obama's Christianity, alleging he is not a Christian “in any meaningful way,” despite the fact that right-wing attempts to call Obama's faith into question have long been discredited.

On February 21, Erickson expressed doubt about President Obama's Christianity, writing on Twitter that Obama is not a Christian “in any meaningful way”:

I don't think Barack Obama is a Christian. He certainly is not one in any meaningful way.

-- Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 22, 2015

Erickson's statement echoes the comments of 2016 presidential hopeful Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who told an interviewer “I don't know” whether Obama is a Christian, or whether “Obama loves his country” earlier the same day. As Democratic National Committee (DNC) spokesperson Holly Shulman pointed out, Walker's comments come after he sat “silently by when Rudy Giuliani made an outrageous comment that our President doesn't love America,” -- a comment that has been condemned in mainstream media, but fiercely defended by conservative media like Fox News, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh.

Just as when right-wing media rushed to justify Giuliani's baseless assertion that Obama doesn't love America, Erickson's echoing of Walker's absurd statement will likely pressure other GOP presidential hopefuls to parrot claims that Obama is not a Christian in order to avoid attacks from the right-wing pundits who will help shape the opinions of conservative primary voters.

Fox News and conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have a long history of questioning Obama's religion, and even pushing the debunked myth that he is a Muslim, despite the fact that references to his Christian faith are commonplace in Obama's public speeches, and accusations that Obama is a Muslim have no basis in reality.