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i think you are confusing different types of christian discourse--protestant fundamentalist discourse is a particular type--it does not cover all christian discourse--the conceptions of the relation between political and religious speech in this space is not the same as what you would find in other types. i do not see any blanket condemnation of christians either as a whole or as a diverse set of political actors here--but there **is** something basically wrong with claiming that god wants bush to be president, there is something basically wrong with an administration that thinks it is in direct communication with god---if you take the idea of democracy seriously at all, that is a problem. but again, this is a function of alignment with a particular variant of christianity--it does not extend to all of them.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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