"But, being the ultimate pragmatists, the Neocons survey the land and do the math. Why invent a God when, in the hearts and minds of so many Americans, he's never died? ‘Let's take a poll,' you could almost hear them say, ‘to find out what religion is most popular in America.' Well, there are more fundamentalist, evangelical Christians — if you lump some of the more passionate Protestant denominations together — than there are Catholics or Jews or hopelessly permissive Episcopalians and Unitarians.
"Remember this: The Neocons are not committed to any God, not in the same sense the Muslims are. True, the Neocons would welcome a state religion, but only as an effective means to their political ends. They are doing a good job of selling God as a popular product. But their god is worldly powe
