Faith-based Presidency
Found a great blog called Marginal Revolution on my friend Mark’s blog. I’ve been meaning to link to them for a while, so surely the article I mention below isn’t prominent anymore.
However, the blog above led me to this article at the New York Times about Bush’s faith-based presidency. Apparently, whether conciously or not, Bush has created an administration that is fearful of questioning its leader, where facts are distorted through a lens of stubbornness and a strong will to not know the truth.
I try to carefully consider my position on most issues and this used to cause me grief that I didn’t have strong opinions about things at my beck and call. I no longer worry about that; a careful consideration of an issue leads to a deeper understanding of that issue, the world at large and me in particular. In turn, this leads to a deeper spiritual growth. Shout it out, Emmerson: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”