[Siena Dreaming]

she was his personal legal counsel and she shares his religious zealotry

Oh, here we go. Now Bush is a religious zealot? Sheesh.

[Nameless]

How is he not a zealot? He seems to be saying that unquestioning belief in a Bronze Age religion (Updated in the Iron Age by a charismatic leader) is a qualification for the highest court in the land. Maybe you believe that there is a grandfatherly old gentleman who lives in the sky in a place called "Heaven" and has magical powers, but I don't. What percentage of people scoring two standard deviations above the mean in standardized IQ tests share his and Miers belief system? Back in the Bronze and Iron ages, respectively, both aspects of this religious tradition were cutting edge and represented great advancements in moral reasoning and religious thought, but they don't stand up to the accumulated empirical knowledge we have now.