America Struggles With Its Own Evangelical Taliban

I'm not sure that people outside the U.S. can imagine the nightmare with which we are living. Not only are they all demented, but they are armed to the teeth. Our very own Hizbollah in the making.

God save us from your cracked kids.

America Struggles With Its Own Evangelical Taliban:

At this late stage of the Bush rapture, American evangelism is a lot like the Exxon Valdez: Massive, sloshing with oily energy and not a little drunk on its power as it steers through hazards of its own designs. The moment evangelicals began tearing down the church-state wall, the rubble became their shoals. The wreck will be ugly. It will take years to mend because, as one of their own, Minnesota's Rev. Gregory Boyd, recently put it: 'Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.' Meanwhile, too much damage is being done by policies keyed to the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' not to have lasting consequences abroad and at home.

The wreck's effects abroad are spreading. Remember William Boykin, the Army lieutenant-general who went around Christian congregations after Sept. 11, telling them how he knew that 'my' God 'was bigger than his' (one of Osama's lieutenants), 'that my God was a real God, and his was an idol'? Instead of being relegated to sorting junk mail in a Pentagon basement, Boykin was promoted to undersecretary of defense for intelligence -- including the supervision of prison interrogations. It's 'his' God against the jihadis now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and apparently 'his' God against the Constitution or the Geneva Conventions.