Bush’s Faith Fiction Based Policy
First they used the Bible Code to try to track Bin Laden (I can’t remember. Have we caught him yet?). If that wasn’t crazy enough, not the Bush Administration has contacted a prominent minister to advise him about Biblical prophecy :
- Do you think that President Bush, apparently a Christian man, believes and knows he is involved in prophetic events concerning the Middle East and final battle between good and evil?
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I am not sure whether he knows all of the prophecies and how deep of a student he has been in God’s Word, but I was contacted a few weeks ago by the Office of Public Liaison for the White House and by the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to make an outline. And I?ve spent hours preparing it. I will release this information to the public in September, but it?s in his hands.He will know exactly what is going to happen in the Middle East and what part he will have under the leading of the Holy Spirit of God. So, it’s a tremendous time to be alive.
Take a moment to let that sink in. Our president wants to get information about the Bible to help influence his policies in the Middle East. That should scare the hell out of every rational person in this country. The fact that our leader is willing to make life and death descisions based on a bunch of bullshit religious sci-fi should be keeping us all up at night. Just imagine the outrage that would erupt if Bush’s medical policies were based on Frankenstein.
Basing any policy on The Bible is potentially as dangerous as Hitler’s adherence to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or Timothy McVeigh’s love of The Turner Diaries. These are works of fiction. Granted, the Bible has influenced more good than bad, but it doesn’t change the fact that Bush’s role is as a secular leader. As far as I’m concerned, tailoring his foreign policy to help facilitate Biblical prophecies of Armageddon is indicative of a mental illness that makes him completely unfit to hold any elective office.
The fact that fundamentalists actually think the end times are a good thing coupled with Bush’s position as leader of the most powerful country on Earth is a situation as creepy and disturbing as those “doomsday bomb” guys at the end of “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”. In case you never saw it, the movie ended with the world being destroyed. Not exactly a happy ending if you ask me.
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This is going to be petty and cliched, but I think neccesary.
I’m not sure one can argue effectively that more good than Bad has come from the Bible. Sure, a healthy sense of the individual responsibility we all have to be good moral people is one of the good contributions; I’m also in favor of the idea that all people are the same before “God” – after all, it’s one of the cornerstones of modern egalitarian thought.
However, a list of things followers of the bible have created or done, disturbs me indeed (Asterisks indicate that which applies to all “people of the book”):
The Rooting out of heretics/infidels/pagans, with usually violent/murderous results*
opposition to personal hygiene (Ask the Portuguese about their missionaries to Japan)
Censorship*
Christian Rock
Support of Slavery*
Constant violent bickering about interpretations of these fictional texts*
Pograms*
suppression of a healthy view of sexuality*J
constantly used to justify war, no matter who is making the war*
racism*
This is a very short list. I think it’s safe to say that bible worship is foolishness that results in greater foolishness. People who believe in magical fairy tales shouldn’t have their finger on the button. Period.
Comment by Ross Angeles — August 13, 2003 @ 5:26 pm
Ross,
Much more good than bad has come from the bible and religion, from inspiring many of the world’s greatest works of art to giving people a standard on which to base their lives. While many people take their beliefs to ridiculous extremes, blaming the bible is like blaming Kashmir for the tensions surrounding it.
Comment by E-Rock — August 13, 2003 @ 7:09 pm