He seems to believe that others can undergo the same process of conversion to faith. We have seen this happen, much more openly and powerfully, in other parts of the world, for example, in Iran and Afghanistan. The 20th century was a fertile breeding ground for a variety of cults, some of them religious, some of them, like nazism and communism, political and racial. Faith and prejudice were at their base, rather than intellectual rigour or conviction. They entailed surrender to the faith or the cause rather than freedom for the individual.
Most cults demand blind faith and total obedience.
President Bush has something of the personal appeal of the evangelist. Narcissistic transference is a common, almost universal feature of human behaviour. It is a powerful means of forming close human associations, especially within religious and racial cults. A cult which links religious faith to secular power must have enormous and widespread appeal. The development of a cult linking secular power with religious faith would be a matter of deep concern, not only within the United States itself, but also to people all around the world.