Dogmatic beliefs.

• Position: Letters to the Editor

Regarding your piece on "Bush's Messiah Complex" (February issue): As fundamentalists, George Bush and Osama bin Laden might say, "It's a god-eat-god world."

James Thom Bloomington, Indiana Your article on Bush seeing himself as a messianic figure was interesting. However, the conclusion that we should be worried that Bush feels "divinely inspired" in his Presidency shows a complete lack of understanding of the role faith plays in a believer's life. As a believer, Bush most definitely should feel that God has him in the Presidency for a purpose, that God is working through him.

That is not to say that the President should believe that God is on his side; President Bush, as all believers, should pray that he is on God's side. This is not a radical fundamentalist notion; it is at the root of mainline Protestantism.

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