Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Otto]

<    Michael:
> > No, holy cow, Jbor, I'm not doing anything like that. My sense of
> > tradition is grounded in comparative religion, in Eliade (Allen, Valk,
> > Rennie, Bean). When Ari claims 'traditional authority' for "broad cause"
>
> But he didn't claim this at all. He was saying that the term "crusade" was
> meant in a general way. As in: A crusade against poverty. A crusade
against
> unemployment. A crusade against crime.
>

I absolutely agree to Rob here, his examples are better ones than the one I
had chosen.

>From what I've read & heard (the White House urls I have posted) I'm
absolutely sure that "crusade" has been used here with a colloquial meaning
by Pres. Bush.

Otto