Word: nationalismnot
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...from George W. Bush. For it was Bushs recital of a Biblical verse (from Psalm 23) in his dispassionate address to the nation on the night of the attacks that impressed upon me the necessity of grappling, yet again, with religion and nationality, or, more precisely, religious nationalismnot just that of the attackers but also, and more importantly, that of many of the most outspoken and influential defenders of the United States. It is not insignificant that Bush has spoken more than once since then of a crusade, a violent movement that has the cross of Christianity at its core...
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