[2ndDivisionVet]

Now I think I've seen it all.

[Moonman62]

Jack Schwartz supervised Newsday's book pages and was a longtime editor at several New York dailies.

Well, that explains how he is such a Tea Party expert. Does he have any idea how the Tea Party got started.

[skeeter]

Defining it as a religion would be the first step in excluding anything that could be defined as 'Tea Party' from political discourse in this country, since we have the 'separation of church & state'.

Pretty transparent if not clumsy attempt to avoid having to deal with the whole movement honestly. But thats par for the left.

[Resettozero]

These people...

Jack thinks he's got us pegged but draws multiple erroneous conclusions about us...with sprinkles of insight on top.

[ExCTCitizen]

Really? A religious one? Why is it that I have some non religious friends who are in the Tea Party?

[virgil283]

Good Article 2D

"This religiosity explains the Tea Party’s political zealotry."

All dictators set up a false religion of sorts to worship a dogma or race or fatherland with the leader as messiah. But it is always a false religion that leads to persecutions of "disbelievers" or "deniers".