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Rosaries, Bibles, the Koran: Religion, and the Path to the West Wing

November 24th, 2008 • Con1 • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under
Rosaries, Bibles, the Koran: Religion, and the Path to the West Wing

(Submitted by Jane Grey.

Ed: This excellent dissection of the perceptions of religion by those who view, judge, report on and affect the path the to Presidency is an intriguing poke in the eye, revealing the hypocrisy of our press and Washington insiders.)

Ever since the religious refugees set foot on North American shores – and that’s what they were – women and men who walk on American soil have wrestled with the relationship between religious beliefs and political leadership. After all, most Americans believe in something. They don’t find it unreasonable for their political leadership to fall in the same category; in fact, it tends to engender a higher level of trust, kind of like a wedding ring does.

But, in fact, the men who are portrayed so well in HBO’s John Adams miniseries also knew the problems of rulers who regulated religion: English monarchies had risen and fallen due to queens and kings who volleyed back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism as the state religion; Henry VIII finally established the Church of England just so he could obtain a divorce.

John F. Kennedy made waves as the first

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