Remember how George W. Bush promised to be a "uniter, not a divider," and then spent eight years bitterly cleaving this nation apart? His brother, presidential aspirant Jeb! Bush, seems ready to follow
precisely in his footsteps:
In times like these, in times of great of national mourning, people of faith, all of us must come together and at least reflect on this and fortify our strength and love of Christ, love of God to be able to continue to go forth.
As a member of a religious minority, there are few things more sickening than being told to worship a deity of another religion. Countless people have died rather than do such a thing.
It also speaks to Jeb!'s cluelessness that he'd even suggest such a thing. In the same way that privilege can place blinders on those who possess it, when you're part of the majority religion, it's all too easy to blithely forget—or never understand in the first place—that not everyone reveres your god.
For Jews, Muslims, atheists, and all other non-Christians, this kind of insult is distressingly commonplace in public life. But we should be able to expect that candidates for president recognize that we live in a religiously pluralistic nation and respect our differences. Of course, expecting that of a Republican—and a Bush—is expecting too much.