{"id":8748,"date":"2006-04-25T19:57:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/04\/25\/almighty-alrighty.html"},"modified":"2006-04-25T19:57:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:57:43","slug":"almighty_alrigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/almighty_alrigh.html","title":{"rendered":"Almighty, alrighty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of moans<\/a> and snarks<\/a> over Dubya’s latest foreign policy comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Bush also explained, in unusually stark terms, how his belief in God influences his foreign policy. “I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true,” he said. “One, I believe there’s an Almighty. And, secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody’s soul, regardless of what you look like or where you live, to be free.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The idea being that Bush-as-God-believer is a sign of either his uber-cynical manipulation of the electorate (which may well be true — piety is the first refuge of a scoundrel) or, more pointedly, a sign that he’s just a crack-pot lunatic who’s obviously incompetent to lead this country because he believes in Big Sky Heaven Father.<\/p>\n

Wanna bet I could pretty quickly find quotes by FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and JFK that said pretty much the same thing? At what point did belief in God or even expressing a faith in what someone believes God wants suddenly become a symptom of idiocy?<\/p>\n

Bush may be a lot of undesirable things as a president — and I’m not necessarily sold on his being as devout and God-fearing as he makes himself out to be — but … belief in God is not, per se,<\/em> a sign of incompetence to be Commander-in-Chief or Head of State, regardless of, say, sentiments like this:<\/p>\n

His brain has been so corrupted with his silly God beliefs that it\u2019s become reality immune. A better example of the crippling effects of religious belief is hard to find.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hell, I think it would make a lot more sense for folks to criticize the efforts of Bush, the GOP, and their religious right supporters to suppress <\/em>in this country the very freedom the desire for which he touts as one of the Almighty’s great gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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