Everybody who is religious has their own particular understanding of it, John, and may well disagree with someone else's understanding of it. So? What is strange about that? And what is strange about a religious moderate (in any religion) condemning religious extremism?

This appears to be what Moyers is doing.

Do you feel that people should not condemn religious extremism? If so, why? After all, religious extremism is what led a bunch of Muslim hijackers to fly airplanes into buildings, isn't it? If it's leading other people into launching unnecessary wars upon false pretences, is it wrong to point that out?

Seems to me that Moyers is being even-handed, and he's pointing out that Big Money is the real force behind most of it, religion being just a handy PR device which Big Money uses to get people onside or make them appear legit in the eyes of the easily fooled.

All a neocon has to do to magically erase a life of irresponsibility and folly is publicly "get saved" by Jesus. Doesn't that sound like a handy Pr gimmick for the terminally dishonest to you?

(Not that I doubt that a person can be "saved"...meaning can have a fundamental change of heart...I just very much doubt that most of the guys on the political right claiming to have experienced that change really have done so, that's all.) ;-P