Both the rhetorical argument going on here, and the divine comedy of White House faith in the age of Iraq.
On Guardian Comment-is-Free - God bless America [1] (George Bush invokes the divine name with frequency, but he prefers a deity that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction in the national interest. Not the God of Jesus).
On Ekklesia: Resisting the polarising mindset [2] (The idea of 'religious liberals' being foils for bombers and bigots is a distorted and distorting notion produced by too much heat and not enough light).
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