Hubble head

Alternet has an article here by a guy who watched the Bush-Fundy coalition grow from the obscure corners.

wonder working power

Gives a little more insight to some of the more unusual "bushspeak".

"George W. Bush's January State of the Union address was, for the most part, nothing out of the ordinary. But then my former governor (yes, I'm a Texan) dropped an unusual phrase: "...there's power, wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of the American people.

That phrase was not mere wordsmithing. I know it well. I know about polished church pews; I know about dress shoes that blistered my young feet and the smooth heft of the hymnal. As the son of a Baptist minister, I know. I know about the exuberant, saloon-worthy piano, the cat-eye-spectacled old ladies sliding "power" into one syllable, and I know the rest of the phrase: "There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder-working pow'r, in the blood, [men echo] in the blood, of the Lamb, [men echo again] of the Lamb. There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder-working pow'r in the precious blood of the Lamb."


"Another thing is clear to many literal interpreters of the Bible: Israel � all of Israel, even the bits currently underneath the Palestinians � must belong to the Israelis before Jesus can return. "

A part of me used to hope Bush was faking the whole religious thing. I'm not so inclined to that lately.

Jinto

You sound like you still have hope. This is a common problem. Relax, let it go.

Majestyk

The scary thing is that there are many that will vote for him because of his pronouced faith alone.

Machiavelli

I've often wondered if there wasn't a little Constantine in Bush. I mean siding with fundamentalists and christians in general has a lot of political capital.

This subject is extremely depressing to me. It's like were seeing the constitution destroyed right before our very eyes. Non-believers and non-xian faiths have grown used to taking a back seat, but it appears that we get no seat at all with this new administration.

When democracy is used in such a way by the majority to completely squelch a slight minority, it is just another, more peaceful form of oppression. The more that governing borders reflect the idealogies and cultures of the governed, the more succesful and peaceful democracy is.

Godless Dave

I think that describes many of the people in his cabinet, and the behind-the-scenes leaders of the Republican party that put Bush in power. But I'm pretty sure Bush himself really believes that shit.

Hubble head

The other sad thing is that there really aren't that many of them. Seperate the fundies from the believers of convenience and more moderate xians and that group gets very, very small.

That small group, connected to politics by the large sums of money they can siphon off from their sadly gullible and mostly low income flocks, is no better for the world than the Tali-ban or other fundamentalist religions.

The more I look at their versions of reality the more sickened I am too.

Jat

The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. Remember what his father had said about atheists not being real Americans. The way things are going the USA will have to be called TSA (The Theocratic States of America). They already have their moto set up "One Nation Under GOD". They're trying to brainwash the children into believing this by trying to keep it in the Pledge. Let's hope that the Supreme Court doesn't wuss out on that as well.