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Ugh. Thank you for this, Denise. I would never willingly pick up the book on my own; I appreciate your explication. I had been puzzling for some time what gave rise to the intensity of the Evangelicals pushing Trump. I now see that it is the same sort of zealotry that drove the religious wars in medieval Europe, fundamentalist movements in the middle east, and planes flying into New York skyscrapers. There is almost nothing in this world more noxious than religious chauvinism and certainty. And Chuck Colson is still an underhanded scoundrel in my opinion.

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Tangentially I am reminded of Madeleine Albright’s book “The Mighty and the Almighty.” She observed that wars are never so internecine as when waged for religious reasons.

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