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...Arab world that is already deeply suspicious of its intentions. "People don't want a President to think that every important decision has a stamp of God's approval and that God is always on his side," says ethicist Cromartie. "I think people want their Presidents to be pious but not self-righteously so. So there's a paradox, isn't there? A President has to seem to be relying on God's wisdom but not acting like all his decisions are God's decisions." It's the difference between praying that you're right and believing that prayer makes...
Polls consistently show that Americans prefer their leaders to be religious, and in running to unseat the most openly devout President in recent years, Kerry has at times put a pious cast on his own rhetoric. In a speech at a Mississippi church on March 7, he said Bush does not practice the "compassionate conservatism" he preaches, and quoted James 2: 14, "What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds...
...Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima. The bosses who financed these pictures may not have liked them or shared the beliefs expressed in them, but they had their reasons for greenlighting them. One is that they often made money. Another is that the mood of the country was more pious. Today, a fervent Christian conviction-so often aligned with belligerent conservatism-is, to many in the media, a threat or a joke. They don't understand religious devotion, at least in the less attractive sense of the term. They are much more comfortable producing anti-religious entertainment (all the comedies...
...video screen, campus pastor Chris Brown, in jeans, sneakers and a goatee, cuts from photos of A.P.U. students "who need our prayers" to a scene from the Jim Carrey movie Bruce Almighty. In his sermon, Brown makes references to his winter-break road trip, Jell-O and The Simpsons' pious neighbor Ned Flanders...
Shortly before his arrest, Tanzi and his wife visited Fatima, the Portuguese town to which Catholics make pilgrimages seeking miraculous interventions. His trip symbolized the pious Tanzi that Parma natives know. Indeed, upon his arrival at San Vittore prison in Milan, one of the first things Tanzi did was attend a prison Mass. He had better keep praying, because he may need a miracle to extricate himself and his company from the mess they are in. --With reporting by Jeff Israely/Parma