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Originally Posted by TSGracchus
It has nothing to do with his being a "Christian." Calling Dominionists Christian is like calling al-Qaeda Muslim: it's true, but it's only a tiny fraction of the whole truth. It suggests either that all Christians are as extremist as Dominionists, which is a slander, or that Dominionists are no more extreme than Christians generally, which is a whitewash.
We have never had a president who wasn't Christian. If Bush is a Dominionist, though, he's the only Dominionist president we've ever had.
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And how has this been allowed to affect policy? I get that you think it's creepier or more extreme, but I have yet to be convinced that it's dangerous. Sarah Palin did not ban books and she does not advocate creationism being part of the curriculum. She said in the Charlie Gibson interview that she thought that war was hell and she wished we never had to go to war, but that sometimes it was necessary. I'm not reading crazed lunatic who is going to damage the country? How? Especially after the Senate voted to invade Iraq, I think that makes it less likely for something like that to happen again, due to the public outcry. Personally, that might not be a good thing, but I'm not seeing a scenario where a President's religion has any real impact on the country.