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Article: ALL GOD, ALL THE TIME
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2005
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WHEN THEY told us in Sunday School that God is everywhere, they
could have been talking about the recent news cycle. With Harriet
Miers, we see that God lives in the politics of the US Supreme Court
nomination process. In a culture defined by the separation of church
and state, President Bush and his allies have mastered the use of
religious affirmation as a deflection not only of criticism, but of
critical thought. God is thus a trump card, a free pass. If the
president, senators, and members of Congress can justify their
decisions by appeals to God, why not judges?
"Acts of God" is the phrase applied to staggering natural