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The Bible

By on 11.28.07 @ 9:25PM

Didn't Augustine give Giuliani's answer a long time ago? Except the part about "a modern context," of course. He should've stopped before nitpicking about Jonah. Romney's answer avoids such pitfalls, tripping through the tall daisies of pre-evangelical Protestantism. Mormonism successfully elided. Huckabee, here, as he must, excels, confirms that God is by definition not ever completely comprehensible to Man.

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James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.

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