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All conservatives understand that we are in a “culture war” with the left, and that this war has been going on for some time – for the better part of a generation. But it isn’t so much a culture war as it is a spiritual war – and, frankly, I believe that the wider spiritual war going on in our society has allied some on both the left and the right against the influence of faith in God in our society. To wage spiritual warfare requires using the weapons of faith – the recognition that there is a power above and outside of ourselves to whom we all owe allegiance. President Bush is probably the most sincere and public believer in God we’ve had in the White House. We live in dark days, and simple ideology will not get us through them. The light of honest and real faith in God, bringing God back as a foundational value of our society, will, more than any political philosophy, dispel the darkness. This is an important aspect of what President Bush brings to the Presidency. That's why the real issues behind this election (issues which will not be mentioned openly) are spiritual issues, not so much issues of policy, ideology, personality, or party.

Your right. The cultural overtones of the war we are engaged in are merely symptomatic of the underlaying spiritual struggle.

I saw the Lord of the Rings trilogy and thought it pretty much describes what's going on in America and the western world in general, today.