One NPR reporter on the story from the previous post: Religious people were comforted by the idea that Bush claimed to feel “called to be president”, and the “secular people” were concerned. Well, you have to consult OTHER Christians. Not the “Religous Right”, but the “Right Christians” as one website calls itself (a site for the “alternate vices” in Christendom — usually branded as “liberal” or apostate by many of the Religious Right groups.)

One only has to consult sources like “Sojourners” to see how many of the beliefs that many Christians hold about the morality of war and certain kinds of approaches taken by the military (and thewy just mentioned Jim Wallis’ expressions of concern about Bush identifying America with some “divine apppointee” to correct the world’s problems (which is OK as a concept, but how one mixes and justifie’s one’s policies and decisions with “theological approaches” and “selective interpretations” (as well as questionable eschatology).