True Believers
5 December 2006
Editor, The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
E.J. Dionne is correct that Senator Barack Obama and evangelical pastor Rick Warren are surprisingly alike ("Message from a Megachurch," Dec. 5). But I find this similarity disturbing, not uplifting.
Both men believe in magic. Both believe that problems can be solved by ritual - Rev. Warren puts faith in prayers uttered to god while Sen. Obama puts faith in words inscribed on paper by secular priests who preach beneath marble domes. And both men believe that responsibility for solving problems belongs ultimately to a higher conscious power, one who cares deeply for ordinary people and asks in return for its help only that people worship it.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
E.J. Dionne is correct that Senator Barack Obama and evangelical pastor Rick Warren are surprisingly alike ("Message from a Megachurch," Dec. 5). But I find this similarity disturbing, not uplifting.
Both men believe in magic. Both believe that problems can be solved by ritual - Rev. Warren puts faith in prayers uttered to god while Sen. Obama puts faith in words inscribed on paper by secular priests who preach beneath marble domes. And both men believe that responsibility for solving problems belongs ultimately to a higher conscious power, one who cares deeply for ordinary people and asks in return for its help only that people worship it.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Friday August 17, 2007 at 2:51pm