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family member, quoted in the Los Angeles Times. “George sees [the war on terror] as a religious war. His view is that they are trying to kill the Christians. And the Christians will strike back with more force and more ferocity than they will ever know.” Indeed, General William Boykin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, said that “George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.” Discussing the battle against a Muslim warlord in Somalia, Boykin explained, “I knew my God was bigger than his. | knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.” Apparently, religious bigotry runs in the family. Bush’ s father, the former president: “I don’ t know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.” And before him, there was Ronald Reagan: “For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.”. Not to mention Reagan’ s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, responsible for national policy on the environment: “We don't have to protect the environment--the Second Coming is at hand.” In 1966, Lyndon Johnson told the Austrian ambassador that the diety “comes and speaks to me about two o’ clock in the morning when HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015070