> Financial Times - June 12/13, 2004
>
> One man and his god
> By Jonathan Steinberg
>
> George W. Bush is a deeply religious man and the US remains a very
> religious country. In February 2004, Luis Lugo, director of the Pew
> Trust's Religion Programme, wrote that in a recent poll, "Eighty- five
> per cent of respondents stated that religion was either 'very' or
> 'fairly' important in their lives, and nearly 60 per cent reported that
> they attend religious services at least once or twice a month."
>
> If religion matters in general, the particular religion that President
> Bush avows matters all the more. Bush and many of his closest advisers
> are Evangelicals, a variant of Christianity that non-Americans scarcely
> comprehend, and Americans in the large urban centres rarely encounter.
>
So, what can we do to reverse these numbers and make this country more secular? There are way to many churches out here in Kansas City and my return to the Midwest has convinced me that organized religion is the root cause of much of what makes Americanism offensive to the rest of the world. I don't want to hear any more of this bullshit that we on the left need to be more tolerant of religion. I'm pretty damn tolerant of progressive religions--which aren't the problem--but organized religion is responsible for all kinds of backward, right-wing beliefs.
Is it time for anti-evangelical evangelicals?
Chuck0