{"id":297,"date":"2007-03-31T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/03\/loss-of-faith.html"},"modified":"2007-03-31T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T20:12:00","slug":"loss-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/03\/loss-of-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"“A loss of faith”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This New York Times <\/span><\/span>story speaks for itself.<\/a> It is about a senior Bush official who is speaking out because of his loss of faith in the president. I know of what he speaks. Even now when I say or write things that are critical of President Bush or the administration it is from a sense of sadness and not from anger. It is the sort of thing I hate doing because it is the sort of thing I simply don’t want to be true. But these things are true and Matthew Dowd deserves nothing but empathy, respect, and credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This New York Times story speaks for itself. It is about a senior Bush official who is speaking out because of his loss of faith in the president. I know of what he speaks. 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