Surprised by a mid-day, 20-degree temperature drop at Disney
World last month, my daughter and I took shelter in the Hall of Presidents, an
exhibit we probably would have skipped otherwise. The show consisted of a film,
narrated by Morgan Freeman, and animatronic figures of all 44 presidents, of
whom only Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama had memorable speaking parts. The
overall presentation was short on overt religious references—I caught a few
mentions of God by Lincoln, a photo (not commented upon) of LBJ with Billy
Graham, and a chorus of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in the finale—but it instead
provided an interesting perspective on the president as, in the recently
controversial words of Atlanta pastor Andy Stanley, the nation’s “pastor
in chief.”
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