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...GOD-O-METER...
...Pastor Council's director, has been traveling through Iowa to educate religious leaders about their legal rights to motivate evangelicals to attend the caucuses. He has provided churches with phone scripts and a automated phone calling service so pastors can encourage their members to turn out Thursday night. "God's word directs us in Exodus 18:21 to choose for rulers 'just men who will rule in the fear of God,'" reads one sample script. "We do that here by attending our precinct caucuses and bringing our faith and values with...
...with Lucas: the paradox of Lucas' monistic beliefs is that they cannot explain the mythical themes that make Star Wars so powerful. Lucas has written a story of redemption, one that defines evil as a deviant, consuming corruption of the good. To make sense, Star Wars needs a personal God. But Lucas washes God out with his flimsy Force. The result? Guidance without a guide, power without a purpose, goodness without a ground. Since the contradiction of a theistic myth in pantheistic clothing appears lost on Lucas, it also will surely be lost on most of his audience. MARK WARNOCK...
...Huckabee is hardly the first to mix God and country. Over the years, Presidents and candidates for the White House have spoken of a higher power, prayed and been prayed for, sought divine favor for America, and expressed gratitude for providential outcomes. But something profound has changed in recent decades...
...David Domke and Kevin Coe are authors of the just-released book The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America (Oxford, www.thegodstrategy.com...