Daylia:

I think you're mixing it up with the wrong tabby, ma'a'm.

I find public protestations of belief to be completely tolerable in individuals speaking as private individuals, however thick-headed. When Bush professes them from his bully pulpit as the Furless Leider of the Western World, it is another matter. I consider it an invasive and presumptuous abuse of position.

It is not a matter of feeling threatened by the belliefs involved at all -- I have long since outgrown my fear of fairy tales. The notion that Christianity is threatening as a belief set is ridiculous, or humorous at best.

But what can be a threat is mob psychology and mass mindless reactions. Making religous views into a part of political commentary from the top opens the door to some serious manipulation, an art of which Mister Bush is a perfervid practitioner.

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