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This interesting article fails to mention one of the root sources of the president's fatuous certainty: his born again faith. While I take religion and spirituality very seriously, I am troubled by a doctrine which encourages followers to "only believe" and banishes self doubt as a lack of faith. Bush appears to believe he is on "a mission from God" (and has about the same intellectual depth as Elwood Blues) and therefore believes in having no doubt.In the hands of limited intellects such as the President's,such religious doctrines can easily persuade the person of their rightness without painful self examination.How much of the the know-nothingness of current politics and policy is fueled by this faith based ,not fact based, certainty?
