Re: Bush and G*d

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:23:29 -0600
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"Joann Evans" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> Silverwingrider wrote:
> >
> > Talk about the divine right of kings. This is a bit scary.
> >
> > http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/living/MGBHFV0L6CD.html
> > "A month after the World Trade Center attack, World Magazine, a
> > conservative Christian publication, quoted Tim Goeglein, the deputy
> > director of White House public liaison, as saying, "I think President
> > Bush is God's man at this hour, and I say this with a great sense of
> > humility." Time magazine reported, "Privately, Bush even talked of
> > being chosen by the grace of God to lead at that moment." The net
> > effect is a theology that seems to imply that God is intervening in
> > events, is on America's side, and has chosen Bush to be in the White
> > House at this critical moment."
>
>
> Has this asshole stopped to think that some people are saying almost
> *exactly* the same thing about Osama Bin Laden??
>
>
> This sort of logical problem is what pushed me to agnosticism. God
> can't be on everyone's side, and maybe not on *anyone's* side....
Personally, I found myself thinking of a song lyric:
"The morning will come when the world is mine/Tomorrow belongs to me."
Or is that far-fetched?
--
I'm simple in my sadness
Resourceful in remorse
--Jethro Tull