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I don't think you're being dramatic, Kooka.
This is a very scary time. We don't even know which god Bush thinks he's hearing, because there seem to be many around. The God I am familiar with wouldn't kill innocent people without a reason (not since the New Testament). I don't think He would look at Social Security and say, "Hmm, there's going to be a shortfall in about 20 years. I think we should yank another $2 trillion out of the Trust Fund."
Let's hope God doesn't tell dubya to destroy all bloggers. 
posted by
Witchflower
on November 11, 2004 at 3:29 PM
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Kooka - what I find scary about a political leader
making decisions about war based on what his God told him is the precedence it sets. Once you start legitimising this method of setting government policy where does it end? Isn't this precisely the style of government that we criticise in the Middle East? What is worse is that it legitimises the concept of a religious war. How can we now condemn any other nation that chooses to go to war based on what the leader of that country was told by his God?
It isn't just the war in Iraq that is based on a religious decision. Increasingly governments in both America and Australia (where are am from) are basing social policy on the religious values of their leaders. Again, this is just the sort of thing we criticise Middle Eastern Islamic governments about. My post We Condemn Islamic Fundamentalist Governments expands on this issue. We seem to be becoming more like those religious fundamentalist governments that we find so scary.
posted by
Parris
on November 11, 2004 at 1:23 PM
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sheesh ylf
did God tell the pres to invade Iraq you think?
did god tell him to privatize social security?
or to push for school vouchers (well, maybe, since many ARE religious schools)?
posted by
Xeno-x
on November 10, 2004 at 2:45 PM
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kooka we are fighting a Holy war now Iraq
it is not the reason we went there but as we near the second year there we have to all wonder how much longer, how many more lives, and how much more money into a country that hates us?
posted by
scoop
on November 10, 2004 at 2:32 PM
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Well, I don't think it's scary that the President has listened to God. That's what Christians do. I find it refreshing that the President behaves like an actual Christian rather than someone who simply gives the church lip service. I have a great deal of respect for Bush.
Now, as for whether or not God told him to do those things for purposes that you can understand... that is between you and God.
posted by
TARZANA
on November 10, 2004 at 1:43 PM
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