The Traditional Religious Right's Failure To Restore

One Wonders Whether The Obama Re-election Campaign May Be On The Right Track As It Seeks To Apply The You-break-it-you-own-it Rule To Bush And The American Economy. Hardly A Day Goes By Without President Obama Or His Surrogates Arguing That It Takes Longer Than Four Years To Recover From An Economic Crisis So Long In The Making.

Among The Many Problems With Taking The Bible Literally Is It Reduces The Most Mysterious And Complex Of Realities To Simple - Even Simplistic - Terms. Yes, Scripture Speaks Of Fire And Damnation And Eternal Bliss, But The Bible Is The Product Of Human Hands And Hearts, And Much Of The Imagery Is Allegorical, Not Meteorological.

Steadiness Of Faith, Was, In The Long Run, As Illuminating And Essential As Sophistication Of Thought.

From Jefferson To Jackson To Lincoln To Fdr To Reagan, Every Great President Inspires Enormous Affection And Enormous Hostility. We'll All Be Much Saner, I Think, If We Remember That History Is Full Of Surprises And Things That Seemed Absolutely Certain One Day Are Often Unimaginable The Next.

[t]o Argue That Something Is So Because It Is In The Bible Is More Than Intellectually Bankrupt.