The words "challenge" and "extending" refer to their willingness to overthrow regimes that violate American "principles" and "values," or regimes that threaten American "interests" and "prosperity."(3) From a religious point of view, the neocon vision is pagan, understanding the world in terms of power politics.

The Rev. James Massa, executive director for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, said Pope Benedict XVI made the changes over Jewish concerns on anti-Semitism. "What is important is that he's chosen to omit any language that's been associated with negative images of Jews," he said.

But the top U.S. Jewish groups were not mollified.

Scorning people for their faith is intrinsically repugnant, and in this case it also betrays a profound misunderstanding of how far evangelicals have moved over the last decade. Today, conservative Christian churches do superb work on poverty, AIDS, sex trafficking, climate change, prison abuses, malaria and genocide in Darfur.

Skipping happily down the church hater's version of Memory Lane, the graphic shows Adam and Eve kicked out of the Garden of Eden, and various dark moments in church history such as witch burnings, Galileo getting jailed for heresy and Joan of Arc's martyrdom. It finishes with the 20th century example of California pastor David Hocking losing his ministry in 1992 over a relationship with a married woman.