In article , "John A. Keslick, Jr."
wrote:

What BIBLE has BUSH read?

His adult religious understanding is entirely filtered through his
semi-illiteracy & alcoholism. I doubt his knowledge of scripture has
matured since he drew outside the lines of his favorite version, The
Children's Bible Coloring Book.

Still, he claims that he reads a little bit of Oswald Chambers every
morning (if he lives long enough, maybe he'll finish it someday) because
"If you can figure out everything he's saying, then you have a depth of
understanding of the gospel."

A sales-pitch review of Bush's favorite book can be found he
http://prayerfoundation.org/books/bo...is_highest.htm

Chambers' Scottish Baptist sermons constitute the sort of writings one
finds in the cast-off bin of religious bookstores. Still, if Bush actually
has any capacity to learn from what he reads, he should have learned
something from Chambers' assertion: "One of the biggest traps we fall into
is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in
the world." That pretty much states that the whole of Bush's philosophy is
wrong, because he definitely does believe he's led by God therefore can do
no wrong. Bush regards himself more of an infallible Pope than a
President, & Chambers would be horrified.

Bush also believes the ends justifies the means, & so convinces himself
that lying to the American public about Weapons & Mass Production & all
sorts of other things is godly & good, because the outcome (in his
ridiculous estimation) is a good one. If the "outcome" stops at finding a
dictator filthy & alone ina spider-hole, then sure, the only thing equally
great would be if Bush ends up pretty much in the same pickle someday. But
Chambers taught: "War is the most damnably bad thing. [Even if] God
overrules a thing & brings good out of it does not mean that the thing
itself is a good thing." He said this having served as a chaplain in the
British Commonwealth Forces in the mid east, the turmoils of which were
the same in his lifetime as in ours.

Chambers lived a humble life & would be totally unknown today if his
sermons hadn't been posthumously published more than a decade after his
death in 1917. His sermons embodied a belief in the Fall from Grace that
has led to tragedy in peoples' lives, distortion of truth, frustration of
dreams, & waste of human life -- these being the hallmarks of the world
humanity was left with after the Fall. Certainly George W. Bush as a
distorter of truth, destroyer of dreams, & layer of waste bringing tragedy
into peoples' lives, fits well into Chambers' view of what happens because
of that Great Fal. So I can only imagine that Bush reads Chambers with a
Satanic glee of having His Dark Majesty's successes acknowledged.

On the other hand, Chambers does also eschew Reason in favor of seeking
redemption in Belief. So maybe Bush feels any damned thing he makes up to
justify further enriching the top 2% of the American population on the
broken backs of the rest of us is well & good, so long as he continues to
believes in himself, & doesn't let reason or compassion interfer. And
Chambers further teaches that Fear is good & is proof of God's grace still
in the world -- so the more danger & fear Bush drums up in the whole
world, the more godly he can mistake himself for being.

Nice webpages:

"The Religiosity of George W. Bush"
http://www.secularhumanism.org/libra...cohen_24_4.htm

"Is the Antichrist an Alcoholic Born-again Christian?"
http://www.reallyweirdstuff.com/antichrist.htm
Real Quote: "It's amazing I won.* I was running against peace, prosperity,
and incumbency"*-George W. Bush, 14 June 2001

"Dangerous Religion"
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action... ticle=030910

-paghat the ratgirl

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"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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