Must Read: Garry Wills on Republican Fundamentalism
Garry Wills is one of the country's best writers on religion.
His critique of the religious right's infiltration into government in the New York Review of Books is stunningly good, comprehensive and powerful. Its also a bit of a slog, but well worth it.
This powerful quote closes the piece, summing up the belief of many evangelical Americans that the war in Iraq is God's work:
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and he was the one who led them into war. Thus, in 2006, when two thirds of the American people told pollsters that the war in Iraq was a mistake, the third of those still standing behind it were mainly evangelicals (who make up about one third of the population). It was a faith-based certitude.
His critique of the religious right's infiltration into government in the New York Review of Books is stunningly good, comprehensive and powerful. Its also a bit of a slog, but well worth it.
This powerful quote closes the piece, summing up the belief of many evangelical Americans that the war in Iraq is God's work:
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and he was the one who led them into war. Thus, in 2006, when two thirds of the American people told pollsters that the war in Iraq was a mistake, the third of those still standing behind it were mainly evangelicals (who make up about one third of the population). It was a faith-based certitude.
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