The BBC correspondent in Bubble, DC, is one of the most self-important people in the world, so "Is America ripe for a Mormon president?" should be definitive as dogma for bien pensants. The signal to snide ratio is about 50/50, but the piece shows the confusion in attitudes of a liberal who 'gave 10 minutes' to encounter real, decent people who subscribe to a worldview anathematized by other secular cardinals . He deals with the conflict by piling on against his version of the other Christian nuts who dominate America.
Posted by Mark Adams on December 24, 2006 9:10 AM
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I'd have to agree that the man is insufferably self-important but that's an occupation hazard of journalism.
Its terribly ironic that the disappointment of Evangelicals working within the administration has failed to dent his simplistic representation of the Bush administration as "faith-based". There is simply little or no evidence of that.
The real nugget here is how good Mormon public relations people are--damn good if they can dent the impervious psyche of this arrogant bastard.
Posted by Mick Stockinger | December 24, 2006 10:16 PM
Posted on December 24, 2006 22:16
Mr Webb states "... I made a much more profound discovery about this faith: that its adherents are bright and intellectually open, and have a sense of humour, of humanity, that is sadly lacking in other strands of American religious life."
The best physic's professor I had was an evangelical adherent. I wonder if Mr. Webb really knows what other "stands of American religious life" are about or if they also need a PR firm to get a proper hearing.
Posted by Dave Calder | December 25, 2006 5:18 PM
Posted on December 25, 2006 17:18