The real theological problem in America today is no longer the Religious Right but the nationalist religion of the Bush administration--one that confuses the identity of the nation with the church, and God's purposes with the mission of American empire.
America's foreign policy is more than pre-emptive, it is theologically presumptuous; not only unilateral, but dangerously messianic; not just arrogant, but bordering on the idolatrous and blasphemous. George Bush's personal faith has prompted a profound self-confidence in his 'mission' to fight the 'axis of evil,' his 'call' to be commander-in-chief in the war against terrorism, and his definition of America's 'responsibility' to 'defend the--hopes of all mankind.' This is a dangerous mix of bad foreign policy and bad theology.
Amen.
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