Faith heals the heart and the spirit, but it doesn’t do much for analytical skills.

from the article I’ve been reading today (see previous postings)

This is only true when one uses the case of Geroge W. Bush as a litmus test (and , to be fair, also applies to a widesread tendency in the Religous Right to give up autonomy for authority— thus the Bush-dogma that “you’re with us or against us”, which is applicable to the fundamentalist Biblical interpretation (“you either believe it— as in , agree with our interpretation—- or you’re against it”.