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...President can be as devout as he wants to be. I just don't want him shoving his devotion down my throat. Herman Kolender New York City...
...secular, how does he continue to inspire the white Evangelicals, who support him in overwhelming numbers, while not alienating the independents or further inflaming the Democrats so that their turnout rises as well? And more important than the politics is the policy. How, for instance, does a devout President rally a country against an enemy that claims to fight in God's name without implying that this is a Holy War? "For every person who likes the way he talks about his faith and America, there's another who's repulsed by it," observes Michael Cromartie, vice president...
...possibility that the enemy is motivated by its understanding of God's will lest his critics note that he believes the same of himself. So he portrays the terrorists as heirs of the Nazis and communists: totalitarian in vision, cynical by nature, manipulative in their appeal, certainly not devout. They "couch their language in religious terms. But that doesn't make them religious people," he told a group of religion writers late last month. "I think they conveniently use religion to kill." There are sound, practical reasons for resisting the Holy War framework, but winning a war also depends...
Faith & Politics How devout do Americans want their President to be? The answer is proving to be a major reason why the 2004 campaign is so divisive...
COVER STORY FAITH & POLITICS How devout do Americans want their President to be? The answers are heating up the 2004 campaign...