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Bush and his religion?
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 -- "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" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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