Apart from his shocking disingenuousness (if there's a more blatant Christ parable than The Shawshank Redemption, I don't know what it is), Darabont obviously doesn't understand that for the reborn mind, the longer the climb, the better the proselytizing — hence the
desertion, the nepotism, and the DUIs actually augmenting Dubya's holiness instead of
casting suspicion on it.