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May 22, 2006

Albright Concerned About Bush's Fundamentalism

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says she is concerned about the role President Bush's Christian beliefs are playing in his foreign policy approach.

"I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy," she said, referring to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both Democrats and Christians.

"President Bush's certitude about what he believes in, and the division between good and evil, is, I think, different," said Albright, who has just published a book on religion and world affairs. "The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying to some of us."

To any true believer of fundamentalist Christianity, the clear message in these statements will be that President Carter and President Clinton were Christians in name only, so they were acceptable, but because President Bush is actually living his Christianity, that makes him dangerous.

Fundamentalist Christians are suspicious of what they see as the "intentional discrediting" of President Bush, known to be a born-again Christian, as part of an orchestrated effort to turn the world against all of fundamentalist Christianity. Albright's new book, "The Mighty and the Almighty," will certainly further fuel their fears.

"Some of his language is really quite over the top," Albright told Reuters on Sunday during a trip to London to promote her book. "When he says 'God is on our side', it's very different from (former U.S. President Abraham) Lincoln saying 'We have to be on God's side.'"

The fundamentalist true believer cannot understand how anyone could both truly believe in Christianity and at the same time not have it be central in their lives. The liberal form of Christianity exhibited by President Carter and the casual form exhibited by President Clinton appear to the fundamentalist to be apostate and dangerous. They will certainly see this as an attack on "true" Christianity.

Posted by Becky at May 22, 2006 01:16 PM

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