Democracy or Theocracy?

Here in America, the line's getting crossed more and more regularly.

As proof, read this Village Voice article ("The Jesus Landing Pad") by Rick Perlstein posted yesterday which says, in part, that the Bush Administration regularly consults with "rapture" Christians regarding the formation of US policy on the Middle East.

This is scary stuff, not just because such Christians don't recognize the right of Palestinians to breathe, not just because their acceptance of Jews amounts to nothing more than a tool in getting such Christians to the Promised Land, but because it's at the forefront of the mess that pits us again and again against the Arab world.