A real good op-ed about the christian fundie-repuke alliance.

[redphish]

"Bush foreign policies play to the 'rapture-and-Armageddon' crowd"

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In a rare public outing in which he took spontaneous questions, President Bush was asked last week in Ohio whether he had a biblical view of the war in Iraq and saw it as an apocalyptic struggle for the Middle East. ''The answer is, I haven't really thought of it that way,'' Bush responded. ''First I've heard of that, by the way. I guess I'm more of a practical fellow.''

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According to Phillips, the dominating influence of fundamentalists and evangelicals on American politics has ''warped the Republican Party and its electoral coalition, muted Democratic voices and become a gathering threat to America's future.''
He echoes the words of Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., who despairingly declared in March 2005 that ''the Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy.'' The transmogrification has resulted in backward policies on stem cells, global warming, disease control and evolution, as well as the rise of a dangerous American exceptionalism that says our country is chosen and acts on God's behalf.

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http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3639727

[Betsy Ross]

1. I believe you posted an edited version.

A comma was removed from "First, I've heard of that, by the way." The second sentence was more of an after thought to deny association with the first.