[Jeff Higgins]

Yes, I did find it interesting. I always find it interesting to read an athiest's view of Christianity. Like others, his is almost entirely wrong, and merely serves to support pre-conceived notions about Christians. It would seem as though athiests so very much want to at least deride, if not out and out hate Christians, that the whole lot of them must sit around and nod approvingly when reading material such as this.

This article is very much written from an outsider's perspective. It is factually wrong on almost every point it tries to raise concerning Christianity. And then, to top it off, it provides a zinger of an unsupportable allegation. From the article:

Speaking to a small group of supporters in 1999, Bush reportedly said, "I believe God wants me to be president." Believing that God has delivered you unto the presidency really seems to entail the belief that you cannot make any catastrophic mistakes while in office.

"Reportedly", eh? Who reported it? "...a small group of supporters...", eh? Which small group? Who, if this really did happen, reported it outside this group? Oh wait, I know - athiests just "know" he must have said this to some small group somewhere at sometime.

Ironically, that bold accusation (unsupported in the article as it is) is followed immediately by the following:

Religion is the one area of our discourse in which people are systematically protected from the demand to give good evidence and valid arguments in defense of their strongly held beliefs. And yet these beliefs regularly determine what they live for, what they will die for and—all too often—what they will kill for.

Sounds exactly like what he was doing in his prior statement, now doesn't it? Of course, these are strongly held beliefs among athiests (and Bush-bashers for that matter), so his audience demands no "good evidence" nor "valid arguments". You already believe what you believe; that this man re-afirms those beliefs relieves him of the burden of proving his position to you. Much like a religion, I dare say.