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Two Nations Under God

New York Times Op-Ed

Thursday 4 November 2004, 11:40 am
Keywords: Christian Topics , News Articles

By Thomas L. Friedman

In this election it seemed as though people voted not on President Bush's performance, but for what team they were on.

"The Democrats have ceded to Republicans a monopoly on the moral and spiritual sources of American politics," noted the Harvard University political theorist Michael J. Sandel. "They will not recover as a party until they again have candidates who can speak to those moral and spiritual yearnings - but turn them to progressive purposes in domestic policy and foreign affairs."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/04friedman.html?th

The Red Zone

By Maureen Dowd

The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule.

"Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy, won on 'moral issues.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/04dowd.html?th

The Day the Enlightenment Went Out

By Garry Wills

George W. Bush's victory signals the triumph of belief over fact.

"Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/04wills.html?th

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