"Is God an American Voter?"

Conservative Pundits Question Bush's Religious Appeals

By Jefferson Morley
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer

"George Bush did what God wanted him to do," one U.S. voter told a reporter. "Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?" That kind of religious fervor among President Bush's supporters, reported yesterday by the Sydney Morning Herald, is provoking a broad and deep backlash in the international online media. Even in news sites that supported President Bush's invasion of Iraq, pundits assert that the president's religiosity is a menace.

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Nicolson says that Bush, in laying claim "to the robe of righteousness," was articulating a "vision of establishing the Christian God's dominion on earth" via war. The implications for Iraq are disturbing, he says.

"To those who see war as an occasional and necessary evil, the developing situation in Iraq is a disaster. Violence is feeding violence. The Abu Ghraib pictures, the rounding up and detaining of thousands of civilians and the cockpit-shot film of an American pilot firing missiles into the streets of Fallujah: all of that has fuelled and will fuel decades of future rage and resentment," he writes.

"But for any Christian who is driven by an apocalyptic and millennial vision, these events are exactly what should be happening. Terrible and desperate violence, blood and grief are all, for them, mileposts on the road to God's dominion," Nicolson says.

In this view, Bush's refusal to admit any mistakes in Iraq reflects not arrogance nor evasiveness but divinely inspired confidence that all is going according to His plan. For the formerly pro-Bush press, it's a scary thought.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63813-2004Oct26_2.html

What part of the Bible have these Right wing nuts been reading?

I dunno. It ain't the Bible I been readin', I can tell you that!

Sometimes I think they skip the New Testiment entirely. I just can't see Jesus being down with this stuff.

I can still remember right after 9/11 a few of the Catholic Churches that we print weekly bulletins for asking that a clipart picture of Jesus to be replaced with something else because he looked too "arabic." Newsflash people -- Jesus was not caucasian.

Probably Pat Boone too

The God in there can be a pretty mean, psycho bastard.

With the whole great flood that created the Grand Canyon

and the best thing for the Republicans right now is to hope they lose, because if Bush gets another four years with a Republican Congress God is going to be getting His squirrel rifle.

It is a travesty that religion is being abused in this manner. And it makes me all the more happier that I just put another "Catholics for Kerry" sticker on my car. Today, I'm going to put "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" Kind of funny, I drive a boring little, housewifish minivan...plastered with Bumper stickers, and not a soccerball sticker in sight. :hi:

Just like my vote for Kerry is rather meaningless here in Washington.