Thursday, March 06, 2003

The recent White House Prayer Breakfast sounds like a fun event to have attended--if you weren't Roman Catholic. A bishop of the Episcopal Church has reported that many people at the breakfast mistook him for a Catholic priest because he was wearing his clerical collar. This misperception alone indicates a fundamental (pardon the pun) lack of knowledge about the nation's maintream religions. Worse, though, is the fact that the bishop then heard people wondering out loud whether "he knew Jesus" and whether "Catholics could be saved."

That's what this White House is all about--a gathering place for fundamentalists and evangelicals. The bishop, who was shocked by this blatant prejudice toward Catholics, described the attendees' attitudes toward war as "good versus evil," "right versus wrong"--no complexities whatsoever.

And we're worried about fundamentalist religions in other countries?



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