Letters to the Editor
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Christianity's Two Path System
Christianity has two paths: One path, you recognize God, and you decide to work hard to improve God's world and make it a better place. It's a struggle of hard work, probing questions, and constant progress.
President Carter is an excellent example of this path. When he was in the Navy, he refused shore leave in Jamaica because his black crew mates weren't allowed on shore. When he was running his agricultural business, he refused to join the White Citizen League even though it cost him quite a bit of business and sold seed peanuts to everyone including a black-owned co-op. When he was president, he did his best to lead in a moral manner. After he left office, he started the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity. It's a life of constant reflection, contemplation, and action.
Path #2 is much simpler: You accept Jesus, and everything is all okay-dokey. You're saved. You can go home and watch TV for the rest of your life because you've got a guaranteed seat in heaven. President G.W. Bush is an excellent example of the second path. He's always right, never questions his own motives, and has no intellectual curiosity.
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Also,..
There mere fact that there is no God should be enough evidence that Bush is being ultimately disingenuous when he orders the illegal murder of nearly a million people in the name of a Jew zombie who preached poverty and charity. Whether or not Bush actually believes this particular fairy tale, I may never know. But I suspect that, to some extent, he believes in it -- or at least his peculiarly twisted, blasphemous self-serving prophetic version of him. After all, its easier to sleep when you are a put-upon martyr, toiling for Christ, instead of just another asshole frat-boy who got God long enough to stay out of the drunk tank or worse.
Gott mit uns!
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ETA
If he does believe the fairy, if he has truly drunk the Kool-Aid, then that makes him much more dangerous than he is given credit for already.
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Put this together with the TXANG
That's when you get a portrait of the guy. Unresolved Oedipal drives.
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Talking about religion at Salon
Is like talking about strippers with the Mennonites.
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It's Sad, But I Don't Trust People Who Flaunt Religion
I was raised as a Catholic and left because of a priest telling me that the Commandment about Honoring My Father and Mother trumped me be physically abused (beaten). I figured that any God who condoned children being beaten was not a God that I wished in my life.
I tried being Protestant, but got tired of what I perceived as hypocrisy by successful businessmen having questionable ethics in their daily lives, but donating a lot of money to the church and showing up once a week and that supposedly kept them in good standing with God. To me God is more of a concept in which we live daily lives as good people and don't need a formal church to intervene to make our lives more explainable to anyone perhaps waiting to judge us when we pass on from this life.
In my mind George W. Bush is a great example of someone who used religion to manipulate how he was perceived by others and worked franticly to somehow make himself more attractive to people because of religion. In short, he played them all.
In my world one does not need to tell me of one's great deeds, just simply be an honorable person in how you deal with others. George W. Bush repeatedly failed that test with me.
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@Anonymous
Speaking of Mennonites, I know a few who went on to *become* strippers (you will invariably encounter this if you grow up in Pennsylvania or Ohio). Also, they are famous, famous drunks. Terrible, moonshine blind, fighting, fucking and puking drunks. Them and the Amish.
What was your point? Go back to LGF.
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W. Bush's Religion Is Not Our Big Worry..
Our big worry is the American population of fundamentalists, the Religious Right, christianism, call them what you will. No matter whether Bush himself is sincere or devout, I guarantee you that many of fundamentalists really are deadly serious. And they are whacky at best, but often raving, murderous lunatics.
We need to learn how they think, figure out the best ways to deal with them, and thwart them.
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Why not print the real story?
Why not publish the "real" story, then? The fact that they'd publish some fable involving Billy Graham makes me doubt the supposedly "true" story of Bush's conversion as well.
Has he ever done one thing in his life that any reasonable person could point to as admirable? Or even merely adequate? He's consistently taken the low road and because we live in a culture that rewards mediocrity, this most mediocre of men was elected to the highest and most powerful office in the world. George Bush as born-again Christian makes one helluva poster boy for atheism.
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is anyone suprised....
that bush tells more lies? all the christian talk is just another con game to tweak the uninformed voters....
This BS, aided by the Diebold voting machines, -with an assist from the Supremes, gave us the most dishonorable prez that ever served in the White House.
christian? not a chance.
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For people of all religions,
there are disciplines which, if followed, can lead to a transcendent experience. Those disciplines and experiences are chronicled in a vast array of books. What one notices about all of them is that the search for that transcendence is long and hard. It does not come easily and to some people it doesn't come at all despite years of trying.
So it's odd, to say the least, to hear Bush and others proclaim that in some relatively effortless way, and virtually overnight, they've "found Jesus." According to all reputable accounts and the facts of, for example, Buddhist teaching and meditation, Bush's "faith" is nothing but a comfortable (for him) illusion.
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As Max Von Sydow said...
...in "Hannah and Her Sisters," by Woody Allen: "If Christ could come back and see everything that's being done in his name, he would never stop throwing up."
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Nonsense!
Everyone knows that the lizard folk are members of his imperial satanic majesty's entourage and ther only interest in christianity are for the footstools and the blood of innocents which flows freely when they honor Cthulu in the pale moonlight when the stars are not quite right.