Andrew Sullivan on Mormonism

Andrew Sullivan, in his never-ending attack on Christianists, attacks “American Exceptionalism,” and recommends that Mormonism is more suited to that version of Christianity…

That’s why, it seems to me, that Mormonism is much more coherent a faith platform for the rightist religious popular front that the GOP increasingly is. Because it places Jesus in America and gives America a unique role in global salvation. Christianity – the actual religion, not its strip-mall bourgeois impostor – is universalist, not nationalist. What the far right means by American exceptionalism is a divinely blessed and guided country, whose enemies are God’s enemies, whose role in the bringing about of the End-Times is unique, and who therefore cannot truly do wrong. That’s how Christianists like George W. Bush can say “damn right!” when asked if he would authorize torture again. Merely because he is the American president, he cannot definitionally commit an absolute evil – placing him on the same moral plane as, say, the Communist Chinese whose torture techniques he cribbed.

via We’re Obsessed With American Exceptionalism, Ctd – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan.