Andrew Hagen

In the third debate, Bush said:

If you’re a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you’re equally an American. That’s the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.…

In Afghanistan, I believe that the freedom there is a gift from the Almighty.

(*) There’s nothing controversial in that excerpt.

On the other hand, Kerry said:

Everything is a gift from the Almighty. And as I measure the words of the Bible — and we all do; different people measure different things — the Koran, the Torah, or, you know, Native Americans who gave me a blessing the other day had their own special sense of connectedness to a higher being.

This statement is totally at odds with Christian teaching that one can only come to know God through Jesus.

Furthermore, in Christian teaching, everything is not from God. Sin, for example, does not originate in God.

Kerry would be the first American President with this New Age religious sensibility.

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