Suskind's "Without a Doubt" was one of the most important things I've read

[Selwynn]

...on Bush. My question is, how can we get it out there to a larger audience and make sure such a seriously important writing doesn't just fade away?

I was so amazed to hear someone to eloquently describe exactly what I think really makes Bush tick. And I loved the fact that after sharply criticizing Bush's fideism (which is that it is - its not faith, but fideism) he ended with this quote from Jim Wallis:

"Faith can cut in many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to a repentance and accountability and help us reach for something high than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness -- that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self-criticism aside. There's no reflection.

"Where people get lost is as this very point - real faith, you see, leads us to deeper reflection and not - not ever - to the thing we as humans so very much want: easy certainty."

That is the difference between my faith and Bush's fideism. All of you wonderful people who don't share my faith don't need to be afraid of people like me either - all we want to do is move toward deeper refection, never to dogmatic absolutism. Now fideistic apocolypticists like Bush, well, we should all be afraid of them. :)

[sangh0]

1. I thought that was a killer line also

"Where people get lost is as this very point - real faith, you see, leads us to deeper reflection and not - not ever - to the thing we as humans so very much want: easy certainty."

[Ilsa]

2. I've posted links to it at

another site, hoping some folks will consider what it has to say about how Bush tends to business. Very frightening stuff.

[Terry in Austin]

3. The article also gave us

the phrase "the reality-based community." I think this one will be with us for a good while.

[rocktivity]

4. You can read the entire article without registering first

courtesy of Bartcop.com.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Selwynn]

5. Ok, I've linked it on my blog - not that I generate a lot of traffic :P