More from the Middle Eastern tour of our indomitable Secretary for Wishful Thinking.

From [1] Breitbart:

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prayed at the Biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ on Wednesday, promoting religion in the quest for Middle East peace during intense diplomacy.

"Being here at the birthplace of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ has been a very special and moving experience," said the top US diplomat, a devout Christian whose father and grandfather were Presbyterian ministers.

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Wearing a light green trouser suit, Rice spent about half an hour inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, visiting its Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Catholic chapels and the exact spot where Christians believe Christ was born.

She prayed and later emerged, saying her visit had been a personal reminder of the power of religion to heal and reconcile those who live in the Holy Land -- where Rice has said it is time for a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

The Almighty was not available for comment.

"These great monotheist religions that have inhabited this land together have an opportunity to overcome differences, to put aside grievances, to make the power of religion a power of healing and a power of reconciliation.

"What these great holy sites remind us of is that the three great religions indeed share a common vision of peace and a common vision of our humanity. That is what I will ultimately take away from this visit," she said.

As bad as US policy is, it is compounded immeasurably by these soapy attempts at theological diplomacy. What on earth do a Galilean Carpenter, who explicitly rejected violence and voluntarily went to His death, and a conquering warlord responsible for the massacre of between 600 and 900 men (the Jewish Bani Quraiza, according to the canonical Islamic sources) and numerous other deaths and atrocities have in common? "A common vision for humanity"? Are you kidding me?