: They endorsed Bush. Now they demand that he deliver -- more accurately hand over -- all of America. Emboldened by the ascendancy and clout of political conservatism, evangelicals have jumped on deck, intent on sharing in the captaincy of the ship of state.

Bush's self-styled messianic persona, his appointment of reactionary cronies in key positions, and his supercilious disdain for the secular values that underpin democracy further account for the rapid and virtually unchecked intrusion by religious and ultra-conservative elements into the body politic.

Torquemada said pretty much the same thing. So did St. Francis and St. Dominic. And heretics fed the flames of a holy bonfire that blazed for three centuries.

There is no formula that can deliver all truth, all harmony, all simplicity. No universal theorem can provide total insight, not even religion. To see everything through a single lens, as evangelicals would have us do, will leave us seeing nothing at all.

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