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DLW
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Date Joined Apr 2003
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Posted 1/9/2004 9:12 AM (GMT -6)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2973-2004Jan9.html

I like how balanced and fair this article is in both emphasizing that faith does matter for understanding candidates better, but that reporters often are unfair in how they report about it.

It talks a lot about consumer Christianity and how people often do go about switching denominations not based on weighty theological issues, but more mundane issues of Church practice.

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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