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In a sidebar , a conservative pundit urges the religious right to withdraw from partisan politics, comparing today's Christian politicians to the religious teetotalers who passed Prohibition in a misguided attempt to regulate morality.
Literalist approaches to the Bible/Torah/Koran contend that when reason contradicts the word of God , reason is misguided.
"It is mistaken and misguided to synthesize the distinct symbols of our two traditions," said Dr. Christopher Leighton, executive director of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies and, I'm guessing, not a medical doctor, but a guy who appreciates an honorific.
The roles he picked for himself were Dostoyevskian ones--the doppelgänger, playing unheeded guilty conscience to a modern Mephistopheles; the high-pitched prophet, trying to break what he saw as the "invincible ignorance" of a nation blinded to the "crisis of history" by its prosperity and misguided generous-mindedness.
For Klein, control is always bad--whether it's the evil health-and-fashion industry dictating our ideas about beauty, or the beleaguered dieter struggling to curb his cravings in a spirit of misguided self-hatred.