... the president is corrupting his faith by using it as a marketing tool designed to garner support among the over 60 million Americans who identify themselves as evangelical -- particularly the 4 million born-again voters who stayed home in 2000.
Nowhere is this blending of church and campaign more evident than in "George W. Bush: Faith in the White House," a DVD being distributed to tens of thousands of America's churches.
Although not officially the work of the Bush-Cheney campaign, it obviously has its approval, and indeed was screened at a party for Christian conservatives hosted by the campaign at the GOP convention in New York.
In the documentary, President Bush is presented as a man with "the moral clarity of an old-fashioned biblical prophet" -- and is shown sharing a beatific split screen with the Son of God himself. So, in 2004, Jesus is not only the president's favorite philosopher -- he's his surrogate running mate. I'm surprised we haven't seen any "Bush-Christ 2004" bumper stickers yet. It would make for a heck of an October surprise.
Maybe someone with more Biblical knowledge than myself has evidence to the contrary, but I can't remember Christ ever saying anything regarding abortion or homosexuality, two of the GOP's major campaign planks. I do, however, recall a few words regarding men who made ostentatious displays of their faith, and they weren't very complimentary ones. <_<
However, the following puts into words EXACTLY why I can't stand Bush:
Suskind (Ron, in his book The Price of Loyalty) reveals a president who uses his faith to numb himself against reality. It anesthetizes him in the same way a stiff drink -- OK, 20 stiff drinks -- used to, and allows him to drown out the voices of doubt.
The man is a Dry Drunk; someone who no longer consumes alcohol but redirects behavior once channeled into addiction toward another all-consuming obsession. By his own admission he IS an alcoholic, yet he never actively treated his drinking problems - he just "quit drinking and prayed about it." Yet another idiot who treats alcoholism as a moral failing to be "snapped out of" without addressing the underlying causes.
The man needs treatment and counseling, not a position of responsibility.
