George W. Bush’s Crusade and American Fundamentalism By William Marina Mr. Marina is Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA.
In his October 17th New York Times article, “Without a Doubt,” Ron Suskind recounts a conversation with a senior Bush adviser in the summer of 2002, who noted that people such as Suskind were “in what we call the reality-based community.” When Suskind attempted a reply, the adviser replied: “That’s not the way the world really works anymore. . . . We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Found on George Mason University’s History News Network: Because the Past Is the Present and the Future, Too 
It’s not about being Christian or pagan or atheist, deist, dentist, dancer or dork. It’s about the sublimation of logic — the insertion of irrational, mean-spirited, and unkind emotion in the slot meant for compassion and caring. Rational thought be damned. Logic, it follows, has become the sin. For — if logic and rational thought ruled the mind — then one would reason that a piece of extruded plastic molded in the shape of a figurine of a caucasian man (with a 60 watt bulb stuck in the virtual ass of said figurine) would be either 1) a false idol 2) a misrepresentation of a man from the Mid East region of the world or 3) not something Jesus Christ would have thought appropriate to represent his birth. just a thought on this almost New Year day, 2004.