Test all things

the article correctly represents how the puritans and how bush and FAlwell et al thought, as in the quote "God's message is perfect and must not be questioned" 
 
But the bible says test all things: IOW God MUST be questioned, any voice purporting to be god MUST be tested for validity. 
The Bible is FULL of God being questioned. God's response to the question depends on the motive for the questioning. HE DOES NOT FORBID QUESTIONING 
 
Moreover there is nothing wrong with moral certitude, but to has to be VALID moral certitude. Bush thinks he is good, but the Bible says NO ONE is good. His moral certitude refuses to love its enemies. It is heretical and blasphemous, thus moral certitude twisted into self righteousness is condemned by the Bible as deception. 
 
the dictum "abusus non tollit usum" applies here: that someting is abused does not detract from valid use thereof. Amd Bush, Falwell and co have flagrantly abused the Bible to justify great evil for which they will pay in eternity. 
 
I take the separation of church and state as being an understanding of the biblical view of things, that the world is at enmity to the things of God and the church is to have no part in this: when the church gets in bed with the state both are corrupted. THIS is the lesson of history the Relgous Right, never knew or cavalierly ignore. 
 
I fear that this article beleves that what Bush practices is christian belief and a proper application of the infallible word of God. 
 
It is not. and failure to distinguish the blasphemous rantings of the religous right from proper biblical teaching is to commit straw man fallacy as regards christianity itself. 
 
The name of Christ has been blasphemed by Bush Falwell et al, and the church will suffer for it

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