An interesting visualization exercise

Gary Rosen, writing for the New York Times, asks us to imagine Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, and Rudy Giuliani in church, sitting in a pew, head bowed, or delivering a homily. Rosen bets that we can imagine Clinton and Obama in these scenarios, but not McCain and Giuliani. About them, Rosen says, "You somehow imagine them fidgeting during the hymns and checking their watches."

I couldn't agree more with this, though I have to say up front that I couldn't care less whether any of them goes to church or can deliver homilies. Giuliani in particular has used religion to try to destroy our civil liberties--recall his campaigns against art galleries and museums that exhibited art that might offend Catholics. Giuliani also has issues with divorce and an extra-marital affair. Again, I couldn't care less, but the so-called church group says it does. McCain is such a repulsive person, it is hard for me to imagine his being sincere about anything, much less religion.