Thanks for answering my question. I don't agree with your answer. Please explain and justify your answer. Obviously, I am a Christian - and don't know of "authentic" Christians who would knowingly lead this nation into a Hitleresque scenario. I do, however, know of people who are authentic Christians who are naive about the evil in the world....either because they have been sheltered from evil or because they have never read and studied about the horrors of totalitarian societies. Even without the latter, authentic Christians - of all people on this planet - should understand about the nature of man - its intrensic fallen state - with the enormous capacity for evil....because for a person to become an "authentic" Christian, that person MUST acknowledge that very fact! (All men/women are sinners. I am a lost, dead in my sins, person who, apart from the salvation offered in Jesus Christ, is just as capable of heinous crimes as Hitler. Redeemed from my sins, however, with the forgiveness and grace of God taking hold in my life to its depths, I could not possibly commit Hitleresque crimes - not knowingly.
It would be as foreign for me or any Christian who has faced the "true nature of man" to become a Hitler or a Stalin as it would be for a leftist to embrace ending governmental abuse of power!
I just don't agree with your basic tenet here.
Now. Whether or not President Bush is an "authentic" Christian - or whether he is unfortunately a Christian in name only - THAT is a matter for discussion. From everything I have learned about him here and elsewhere, I cannot imagine he is anything other than an "authentic Christian."