President Bush & Wiretaps
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December 20th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
It is not about Democracy, rather it about grown children fighting over “My Father is bigger and better than Your Father, uh huh!” and taking any means to prove it to themselves and the rest of the world.
In the World’s case today, however; the World is their ‘Sandbox’. These ‘children’ now have access to bombs and family’s children instead of only plastic sand shovels and pails.
Be it Taliban rule or zealous Christianity taking over rule in America….Is there truly a difference at the Core of either?
They both say, “It’s our way or the Highway!” in their own unique ways. At their core, they both result in the seek the same subjugating rule and governance.
This recent assault by Bush on the Democratic process in America further substantiates this Mis-Spritual leadership by an over aggressive religious follower.
It’s said that these things are done for the sake of National Security, but maybe rather for it’s for the sake of Christian Security?
Which of these two do you think ranks Higher with President Bush? National American ideals or Christian beliefs?
Taliban, or extreme Christianity….are they not just similar gifts packaged in different boxes and simply marketed and sold to different target customers?
May the God of your choice Bless you on this Christmas Holiday,
Free4All
December 22nd, 2005 at 11:13 am
Free4All - One of the humbling realizations that should color the discourse from people of faith is that any theistic religion (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) all have sects within it that, through their allegiance to literalism and fear of modernity, view violence and intolerance as not only necessary but divinely mandated by God. No theistic faith is absent this tendency and graciousness and empowered pluralism should come from religious people’s realiziation that the horrors we now see Islam causing are not without precedent in the shared pasts of each faith.
Is Bush looking to allow zealous Christianity take over the U.S.? Frankly, I don’t think he has any over-arching master plan his own. The people around him are a mixed lot, but they do show a preference for evangelical Christianity. This belief system, when coupled with a crisis like that of 9/11, has bred a brittle “our way or the highway” mindset that is deeply troubling.
You are right that the Taliban has any number of equivalent ideologies in the U.S. which are predicated on Christianity; however, I do not think this is what Bush is guilty of. Rather, I think Bush is acting in a way that is going to accomodate future leaders taking advantage of our fear and the diminished civil liberties we were willing to accomodate, coupled with the likelihood that pre-emptive war will be easily abused in the future. These are all troubling tendencies; this is all the more reason why critics such as us must find voices that are not shrill but based on a solid understanding of human government and the reasons why the safeguards we believe in must be protected. If we can not articulate these underlying reasons, it will be as much our inability as the right’s over-reaching which will be to blame for American intolerance.