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Very engaging response to the place of religion in the US election from . Her new book, only published in the US at the moment, tries to challenge the conventional wisdom that evangelical Christians are all Republicans.

As she says in an , she was inspired by an incident in church when the pastor said his congregation would have to vote Republican "to be in line with God's wishes." As a Democrat, and a believing Christian, she felt hijacked.

Benazir Bhutto felt her Islamic faith was being hijacked by extremists, too, as we heard a few days ago from her co-author.

It would be intriguing to hear from the 'hijackers' how they are getting such precise instructions from their heavenly HQ.

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