By Curt Andersen
News-Chronicle
Some folks are so enamored with President George W. Bush that they nearly swoon when he says he is a Christian. Bush is wearing his “Christian” uniform to fool the faithful into believing he is a man of God, when he’s nothing of the kind.
I’m surprised that anyone believes Bush’s claims of religiosity. Imagine if you will, that Satan comes to visit us. Do you think he would appear in the famous red jammies with horns and pointy tail, or as the multi-headed beast described in Dante’s Inferno? Or would he arrive camouflaged in the attire of a failed businessman, a pretender to the faith, saying everything the faithful wanted to hear?
Jesus said to love thy neighbor as thyself (Matthew 19:19), but Bush loves himself and his buddies instead. He has emptied our treasury generations into the future to further gild friends’ holdings, in spite of Jesus saying that we should follow the commandments, as in “Thou shalt not steal.” (Matthew 19:18).
Bush used the Iraq war to steal their oil and at the same time cover up the lousy economy on his watch, mostly due to the theft of our treasury with the transfer of its contents to the wealthiest of us all, and added to by the gross military spending for the war. Jesus said, “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” (Matthew 19:18), but Bush has gone over the top with his distortions of truth regarding the war, the economy, and even about Senator John McCain.
During the 2000 primary campaign, some anonymous Bush supporters used "push-polling" to suggest that McCain's Bangladeshi-born daughter was McCain’s illegitimate black child. (In push-polling, if the pollster determined that the person was a McCain supporter, the pollster asked them, “Would you be more or less likely to vote for McCain if you knew he fathered an illegitimate child who was black?”) Could this get any more smarmy?
Fundamentalist Christians think this is above board?
To say that Bush, himself, never said anything bad about McCain is to overlook that he did not admit that his campaign supporters wrongly suggested that McCain had fathered an illegitimate child. To say this was fair or morally acceptable because pollsters only asked a hypothetical question is to live a lie.
The hypocrisy is abounding these days. When I hear “Christians” screaming that homosexuals are “sinners,” but that they “hate the sin, not the sinner,” it’s obvious they really hate the sinner. So-called Christians have attempted to eliminate numerous jobs based on sexual preference. There are few better ways to persecute someone than to eliminate his or her ability to earn a living.
When I hear Conservatives on shock radio shows rail about minorities, whether other races or just the poor in general, using the worst slurs, they are using Christianity as a cover for their bigotry…their hatred of others; using Christianity as a cudgel instead of a beacon. Christ warned us about this, but those who use his name so often are the worst offenders.
President Harry S Truman’s grandfather told him, “When you see a man praying more fervently than usual, the first thing you should do is put an extra lock on your smokehouse.” That man is having a crisis of conscience and is losing the battle. The loud affirmations of faith by “Christian” fundamentalists are in contrast to Christ’s teachings, i.e., "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.... when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...." (Matthew 6:5-6).
I would guess that nearly everyone has some bigotry in his or her soul, but Christ came here to make us hold back that hatred…to love our neighbors as ourselves. In no way has Bush been able to show true faith. “God is not mocked.” (Galatians 6:7-10.)
For those who believe George W. Bush is the man to lead us out of the mess he has made, I have to wonder where they got the idea that the guy who got us into it would have any clue about getting us out of it.
Curt Andersen is a 4-year Navy veteran (Communications Technician, CTO2), (who, unlike President Bush, served his entire hitch), owns a small business, is vice president of Clean Water Action Council, and is an adjunct instructor at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
News-Chronicle
Some folks are so enamored with President George W. Bush that they nearly swoon when he says he is a Christian. Bush is wearing his “Christian” uniform to fool the faithful into believing he is a man of God, when he’s nothing of the kind.
I’m surprised that anyone believes Bush’s claims of religiosity. Imagine if you will, that Satan comes to visit us. Do you think he would appear in the famous red jammies with horns and pointy tail, or as the multi-headed beast described in Dante’s Inferno? Or would he arrive camouflaged in the attire of a failed businessman, a pretender to the faith, saying everything the faithful wanted to hear?
Jesus said to love thy neighbor as thyself (Matthew 19:19), but Bush loves himself and his buddies instead. He has emptied our treasury generations into the future to further gild friends’ holdings, in spite of Jesus saying that we should follow the commandments, as in “Thou shalt not steal.” (Matthew 19:18).
Bush used the Iraq war to steal their oil and at the same time cover up the lousy economy on his watch, mostly due to the theft of our treasury with the transfer of its contents to the wealthiest of us all, and added to by the gross military spending for the war. Jesus said, “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” (Matthew 19:18), but Bush has gone over the top with his distortions of truth regarding the war, the economy, and even about Senator John McCain.
During the 2000 primary campaign, some anonymous Bush supporters used "push-polling" to suggest that McCain's Bangladeshi-born daughter was McCain’s illegitimate black child. (In push-polling, if the pollster determined that the person was a McCain supporter, the pollster asked them, “Would you be more or less likely to vote for McCain if you knew he fathered an illegitimate child who was black?”) Could this get any more smarmy?
Fundamentalist Christians think this is above board?
To say that Bush, himself, never said anything bad about McCain is to overlook that he did not admit that his campaign supporters wrongly suggested that McCain had fathered an illegitimate child. To say this was fair or morally acceptable because pollsters only asked a hypothetical question is to live a lie.
The hypocrisy is abounding these days. When I hear “Christians” screaming that homosexuals are “sinners,” but that they “hate the sin, not the sinner,” it’s obvious they really hate the sinner. So-called Christians have attempted to eliminate numerous jobs based on sexual preference. There are few better ways to persecute someone than to eliminate his or her ability to earn a living.
When I hear Conservatives on shock radio shows rail about minorities, whether other races or just the poor in general, using the worst slurs, they are using Christianity as a cover for their bigotry…their hatred of others; using Christianity as a cudgel instead of a beacon. Christ warned us about this, but those who use his name so often are the worst offenders.
President Harry S Truman’s grandfather told him, “When you see a man praying more fervently than usual, the first thing you should do is put an extra lock on your smokehouse.” That man is having a crisis of conscience and is losing the battle. The loud affirmations of faith by “Christian” fundamentalists are in contrast to Christ’s teachings, i.e., "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.... when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...." (Matthew 6:5-6).
I would guess that nearly everyone has some bigotry in his or her soul, but Christ came here to make us hold back that hatred…to love our neighbors as ourselves. In no way has Bush been able to show true faith. “God is not mocked.” (Galatians 6:7-10.)
For those who believe George W. Bush is the man to lead us out of the mess he has made, I have to wonder where they got the idea that the guy who got us into it would have any clue about getting us out of it.
Curt Andersen is a 4-year Navy veteran (Communications Technician, CTO2), (who, unlike President Bush, served his entire hitch), owns a small business, is vice president of Clean Water Action Council, and is an adjunct instructor at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Any Word Yet on Whether God has Told Bush to Attack Iran ?
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I hope to fxck he tells em shortly before they have nuclear weapons that the UN is currentley fxckin up trying to extract playing nicey,nicey with the radical ragheads.
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I hope to fxck he tells em shortly before they have nuclear weapons that the UN is currentley fxckin up trying to extract playing nicey,nicey with the radical ragheads.
I think that the UN is getting a bit fed up of dealing with the religious whackos that exist on both sides.
With Clinton around, at least one side was not a God is on our side whack-job.
Now that both sides are taking advice from God theres not much point in trying to mediate.
More a case of let the whackos get on with it.
Iran has to get nukes if she's going to be safe from invasion, because there is no way that the Whitehouse whackos can be trusted, they are too extreme.
So the US will have to invade to stop this.
If I was an Iranian whacko, I would be looking to get my hands on short range tactical nukes, to defend my borders.
Even if I was a moderate Iranian I would be looking for this solution.
The alternative, if you let the Americans in, is a shattered infrastructure and drinking your own sewerage, like what the Iraqis have wound up with.
With Clinton around, at least one side was not a God is on our side whack-job.
Now that both sides are taking advice from God theres not much point in trying to mediate.
More a case of let the whackos get on with it.
Iran has to get nukes if she's going to be safe from invasion, because there is no way that the Whitehouse whackos can be trusted, they are too extreme.
So the US will have to invade to stop this.
If I was an Iranian whacko, I would be looking to get my hands on short range tactical nukes, to defend my borders.
Even if I was a moderate Iranian I would be looking for this solution.
The alternative, if you let the Americans in, is a shattered infrastructure and drinking your own sewerage, like what the Iraqis have wound up with.
I hope God not only tells Bush to defend this countries freedom from terrorism, but tells him how to do it.
Wait a second...
God did tell a king in the OT to go to war and that he'd make sure he would be victorious. God then demanded the king to show how much he wanted to win this war. The king picked up his bow and pulled a couple arrows from the holder and shot them into the floor. Arrows at that time took much time and skill to make, it wasn't like the king or soldiers could go down to the sporting goods store and replace them. God saw that the King had faith and desire to win but God allowed his army to recieve many casualities in the process, why? Because God knew the King did not want to shoot the rest of his arrows into the floor as it would have been burdensome making new arrows.
Hope Bush gets the message that if you go into war, go all the way next time. Big bombs and trumpets baby!
Wait a second...
God did tell a king in the OT to go to war and that he'd make sure he would be victorious. God then demanded the king to show how much he wanted to win this war. The king picked up his bow and pulled a couple arrows from the holder and shot them into the floor. Arrows at that time took much time and skill to make, it wasn't like the king or soldiers could go down to the sporting goods store and replace them. God saw that the King had faith and desire to win but God allowed his army to recieve many casualities in the process, why? Because God knew the King did not want to shoot the rest of his arrows into the floor as it would have been burdensome making new arrows.
Hope Bush gets the message that if you go into war, go all the way next time. Big bombs and trumpets baby!
Bush is the antichrist
http://www.geocities.com/trebor_92627/Bush.htm
or if it's down
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:-s3sR4aBbb8J:www.geocities.com/trebor_92627/Bush.htm+&hl=en
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http://www.geocities.com/trebor_92627/Bush.htm
or if it's down
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:-s3sR4aBbb8J:www.geocities.com/trebor_92627/Bush.htm+&hl=en
(no pics but text is there)
