Bachmann via Steve Benen:
We too are at a crucial time today. And I think it is for us to remember, that if we do as Chronicles tells us, if we humble ourselves, and pray and confess our sins, and turn away from our wicked ways, and ask an almighty God to come and protect us and fight the battle for us, we know from his word, his promise is sure. He will come. He will heal our land. And we will have a new day.I am very conscious that between myself and people who believe in the above statement there is an unbridgeable gap in worldviews. It's not just the "America-in-moral-decline" rhetoric, but the belief that change occurs only by praying to an absent-but-immediately-present god that I find truly incredible. It is this kind of displacement of judgment–from the believer to an absent mover–that vacates and absolves the believer from the complexities of moral ambiguity, and thus of judgment itself. The world is tragic. And moral judgment cannot (should not) obscure the inherent complexity of a tragic world.