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It's called tolerance and acceptance and frankly, we could use more of it in this country.
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you know full well, lebell, that what is at issue in this kind of discussion is not what george w bush chooses to believe as an individual.
it is about the political implications of the way in which he chooses to deploy those beliefs.
these are seperate the one from the other.
but you know this.
the problems with bush's particular variant of christianity and its relation to politics are legion if you do not share that particular variant of christianity as a frame of reference and there are a wide range of possibilities for belief insofar as christianity is concerned--fundamentalist/pentcostalists in the baptist mode ARE NOT the only or even the dominant mode of being christian. this particular style of belief carries with is a whole series of correlates that run directly counter to whatever democracy the us has in place--and they are connected to a wider political agenda that is about intolerance in significant ways.
you cannot conflate the two and then talk about the need for tolerance. as if it applied equally to both registers.
it is both conceptually wrong and politically disengenous to do so.