He says God is his co-pilot, but George Bush is really in the Christian National Guard

George Bush is pandering to his "Christianity" just like he pretended to be a Vietnam warrior. I wonder when he'll go AWOL from Jesus. Bush dresses up in religion, just like he played dress-up in a flight suit. It's more about image than authenticity. His religion is a political Halloween costume. But he's carrying the cross prop for Partially Reborn.

Frank Rich writes today in NYT about The Passion of the Bush:

It's not just Mr. Bush's self-deification that separates him from the likes of Lincoln, however; it's his chosen fashion of Christianity. The president didn't revive the word "crusade" idly in the fall of 2001. His view of faith as a Manichaean scheme of blacks and whites to be acted out in a perpetual war against evil is synergistic with the violent poetics of the best-selling "Left Behind" novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins and Mel Gibson's cinematic bloodfest. The majority of Christian Americans may not agree with this apocalyptic worldview, but there's a big market for it. A Newsweek poll shows that 17 percent of Americans expect the world to end in their lifetime. To Karl Rove and company, that 17 percent is otherwise known as "the base."