the rix mix

So now we know someone on John McCain's staff reads Wikipedia; it's highly unlikely the candidate himself could locate it. But what the heck is this piece of history doing in his statement about Georgia:

"Georgia is an ancient country, at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and one of the world’s first nations to adopt Christianity as an official religion."

Is this some freakin' criteria for McCain's foreign policy decisions?

I haven't found anything saying Christianity is the official state religion of Georgia now, but if it is, that religion would specifically be the nationalist Georgian Orthodox Church, an institution that could care less what American Evangelical protestants believe unless Southern Baptist missionaries began over-running their country to keep the pagans Papists Ottomans tsarists commies Ruskies at bay.

Labels: religion, THE election