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I don't get why people have such a difficult time about this. I can understanding being cynical that Bush is a full blown zealot like Perkins, Dobson, or Kennedy, but does anyone really doubt that he's a Christian believer in the allmighty and what not?
He doesn't need to be a doctarian fundamentalist for his belief to be significant ... Altermeyer points out in his book that authoritarian religious believers often don't even know the content of the Bible. What's more important is their belief that the Bible contains the absolute TRUTH and that someone acting in the name of the Bible is absolutel justified.
This certainly fits as a description of Bush's mind-set. He strikes me as exactly that sort of "Christian" - one who uses his claim to be a Christian that his actions are somehow correct in and of themselves because he believes he's doing what his "gut" or the Lord are telling him is correct.
