In Dangerous Religion: George W. Bush’s theology of empire, Sojourner’s Magazine (”Xians 4 justice-n-peace”) takes W the Burning Shrub to task for distorting their kind-but-wacky dogmas into his mean-n-wackier ones. An excerpt:

To this aggressive extension of American power in the world, President George W. Bush adds God�and that changes the picture dramatically. It’s one thing for a nation to assert its raw dominance in the world; it’s quite another to suggest, as this president does, that the success of American military and foreign policy is connected to a religiously inspired “mission,” and even that his presidency may be a divine appointment for a time such as this…. America’s foreign policy is more than pre-emptive, it is theologically presumptuous; not only unilateral, but dangerously messianic; not just arrogant, but bordering on the idolatrous and blasphemous. George Bush’s personal faith has prompted a profound self-confidence in his “mission” to fight the “axis of evil,” his “call” to be commander-in-chief in the war against terrorism, and his definition of America’s “responsibility” to “defend the�hopes of all mankind.” This is a dangerous mix of bad foreign policy and bad theology.

You tell’em, Jesus-people. Just goes to show that the lunacy that is Xianity can in fact be partitioned off from making the rest of your views crazy.

See? I said another nice thing about Xians. I am getting so mellow in my old age.