For posters who know the Bible ...

xpanda · Oct 1, 2004

Last night Bush made the following statement:

"We have climbed the highest mountaintop, and have looked into the valley. And it is the valley of peace."

I am assuming this is a bibilical quote or reference, so my questions are: Who wrote this? Who are they quoting? What were the circumstances?

Merci beaucoup.

Marco · Oct 1, 2004

I'm no biblical scholar but I'm quite sure the valley being looked into isn't anywhere near Israel and it won't be any valley in Iraq anytime soon.....could be in Iran until the election, then after the election dubya moves into that valley also....

"Mission Accomplished" :biglaugh:

Illini · Oct 1, 2004

It's not a biblical reference at all.

blueedwards · Oct 1, 2004

unless he mentioned the valley of the cannanites, it was not from the bible.:toothless

xpanda · Oct 1, 2004

Illini said:
It's not a biblical reference at all.

Well, that would surprise me. Sounded very ministerial to me.

Illini · Oct 1, 2004

I guess he was just trying to be poetic. Must have worked if some think it was a biblical passage.

xpanda · Oct 1, 2004

It's like when he says the term 'evildoers' ... he's speaking the language of the Evangelicals who hold the same "good vs. evil" worldview that Bush embraces. The statement I quoted above is no doubt directed at these same people ... it had 'witness' written all over it. Sounded to me like he likens himself to a prophet.

Thanks for the responses, guys.

Jointpleasure · Oct 1, 2004

x,

annoint yourself good and you may become less worried about the verbage GW used. Catholic girls in America liked that statement, I'm sure.

Illini · Oct 1, 2004

Xpanda- I think you're being a little too critical of him. I don't see anything that would cause me to think that Bush thinks of himself as a prophet. And he's also used words like thugs to describe those a-holes.

xpanda · Oct 1, 2004

Guys, don't get too wrapped up in my asking this question -- I'm writing a very big paper on this admin and the 'religion factor' is part of it. Sometimes asking a question here (or elsewhere) saves me a lot of research. It created an impression on me so I was looking to see if I could validate it.

By the way, the Rapture nutters on a different board DO think it's an Evangelical statement.

JP: on Catholicism; been there, done that, got the rug burns to prove it.