Word: moralizations
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Raise the question, and the argument starts. Some see Bush as sincerely guided by principles higher than politics, while others think he's hunting for votes in the pews. Some say they are proud that he is restoring America's moral leadership in the world, while others say they are embarrassed by America's moral arrogance. His talk of love and liberty brings the country together--unless it is pulling it apart. Fully 85% of Bush's supporters say his faith makes him a strong leader, according to TIME's poll; 65% of Kerry's say it makes Bush close...
...religion of peace, his case for war now rests less on high-fiber geo-political arguments than on the suggestion that the 3rd Infantry Division be used as an instrument of God's will to share the gifts of liberty with all people. Kerry, in contrast, has avoided the moral language of people's God-given desire for democracy. "I have always said from Day One that the goal ... here is a stable Iraq, not whether or not that's a full democracy," he said in April in New York City. Even though their strategies are increasingly similar--bring...
...invoke a divine mandate as he promises to "rid the world of the evildoers." But at the same time, he explicitly rejects the notion that he is waging a holy war. "This is not a clash of religions," he said recently in Colorado. "The faith of Islam teaches moral responsibility that ennobles men and women and forbids the shedding of innocent blood. Instead, this is a clash of political visions." That was not the first time Bush had trod carefully to avoid a tone of Christian triumphalism. He has consistently referred to Islam as a religion of peace "hijacked...
...history," says Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and adds that both parties are responsible. Even the irreverent Howard Dean rushed off to go to church with Jimmy Carter the day before the Iowa caucuses. "Americans want political leaders to have a moral center, but I do not think that Americans expect the President to also be their national pastor," says Lynn...
...truth may be more complicated, particularly about where that moral center derives. In recent years, argues Professor Green, voters have become much more comfortable with the place of religious ideas in the political arena. "We began to see the upsurge of religious rhetoric in the late 1990s," he says. "There was this real sense of moral malaise in the country, among liberals and conservatives alike. They might not be able to agree on the morality, but they all agreed we didn't have enough of it." The Columbine shootings, the impeachment battle, the corporate crookery all piled...