Nobody here but believers
By Suzanne Fields
March 12, 2007

There are no atheists in foxholes, as any dogface soldier could tell you, and neither are there any atheists in presidential politics. Looking death in the face, whether in a foxhole or at the polls, makes a believer of almost everyone. You could ask almost any Democrat. Democratic office-seekers are walking the sawdust trail to the mourner's bench, drenching their campaigns in religiosity if not necessarily authentic religion. Be prepared to hear a lot more about the "Religious Left."

Hillary Clinton has come a long way from her days as first lady, when she held seances with the long-dead Eleanor Roosevelt and praised the squishy "politics of meaning." She speaks now of her personal faith as a way of connecting with "values" voters. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, might not recognize her "do-good" social gospel nostrums to erase poverty, her call for an energy policy to prevent tinkering with "God's creation," but she invokes her Methodist upbringing in nearly every speech. She concluded a sermon at a Baptist church in Selma, Ala., commemorating the Voting Rights Act with a quotation from the Apostle Paul's letter to the Galatians: "Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due seasons we shall reap if we do not lose heart." the rest