CNN has a through-provoking op-ed in which the writer examines the drift towards more fundamentalist, mystical interpretations of Christianity and warns of its polarizing effects:
The result is a gulf not only between America and the rest of the industrialized world, but a growing split at home as well. One of the most poisonous divides is the one between intellectual and religious America.
Some liberals wear T-shirts declaring, "So Many Right-Wing Christians . . . So Few Lions." On the other side, there are attitudes like those on a Web site, dutyisours.com/gwbush.htm, explaining the 2000 election this way:
"God defeated armies of Philistines and others with confusion. Dimpled and hanging chads may also be because of God's intervention on those who were voting incorrectly. Why is GW Bush our president? It was God's choice."
Posted by Peter at August 15, 2003 10:53 AM
My inaugural address at the Great White Throne Judgment of the Dead.
At: http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/spaceman/