Let’s take a trip down memory lane regarding the left and George Bush’s religion background:

Like a born-again Mr. Magoo, Bush seems to have blundered through his first gubernatorial campaign making naive mistakes that he somehow turned to his advantage. While giving an interview to Ken Herman of the Houston Post, Bush casually reflected on a family argument in which he and his mother had differed over a point of religious doctrine: Did a person need to accept Christ as his savior in order to go to heaven? To resolve this question, the Bushes decided to make a quick after-dinner phone call to the Rev. Billy Graham. (Do they call William Safire to settle their Scrabble disputes?) Graham sided with Barbara Bush: Since there was no way of knowing what happened in the afterworld, it was best just to live your life well here on earth and have faith in God. A moderate, fair-minded response—but, as Bush confided to Herman, he still believed that salvation must be a prerequisite for eternal life. Unable to believe his luck, Herman printed this scoop, to great public outcry: Apparently the Muslims, Jews, and nonbelievers of Bush’s constituency were perplexed to learn that their prospective governor had just condemned them to eternal damnation. Bush never apologized or recanted; he simply avoided the subject, and yet still managed to take the state in a landslide.

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Herein lies one of the most illuminating lessons of The Jesus Factor: If you have the conservative Christian vote in an American election, you can dispense with almost everyone else.

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During a televised debate in the 1999 presidential primary in Iowa, the three Republican contenders, Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes, and George Bush, were asked what “political philosopher or thinker” had most influenced them and why. Forbes cited John Locke; Keyes, the Founding Fathers; and Bush, “Christ, because he changed my heart.” In the clip of this moment that appears in The Jesus Factor, Bush’s sincerity is evident; unfortunately, so is his intellectual poverty and lack of historical referents.

The left has been muck-raking Bush’s religion and those religious figures around him for years. So let’s now look at the religious tone surrounding Barack Obama:

In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate president.

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We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,” he began. “Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”

Mr. Wright thundered on: “America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . . We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers . . . We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi . . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”

Bush’s religious views evolve around the evangelical concepts of salvation, responsibility and doing well by your fellow man. Obama’s hate filled religious environment is a totally different animal – at its core anti-American in every way one can conceive. The comparisons are fair – and damning. Our leaders do bring their religious context to the job. Bush tried to bring faith based organizations back into the mainstream and available to federal funds to do service to our nation. One can only imagine what Obama might do. It is plausible his goals would be to promote the anti-American, anti-white goals that seem to underpin his beliefs. And that is something to concern America after we have spent decades trying to end racial strife and paranoia.