What the heck, Bush quoted the Devil in his inaugural speech?

[DoYouEverWonder]

Yes, it's true. In an amazing faux pas, Bush tried to sprinkle his inaugural speech with biblical references, ended up quoting 'The Devils' instead. Just one more sign that Bush is indeed the anti-christ.


Friday January 21, 2005
The Guardian

One of the models of American leadership is that of Moses, leading God's chosen people - then the Jews, now the Americans - towards a promised land, following a pillar of fire. At one point, according to the Bible, Moses was shown a sign: "Behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed."

But the key fire passage in the Burning Bush speech - "We have lit a fire as well; a fire in the minds of men" - actually has its origins in a novel by the 19th century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils, about a group of terrorists' ineffectual struggle to bring down the tyrannical Tsarist regime.

One of the characters declares that it is pointless to try to put out a fire started by terrorists: "The fire is in the minds of men and not in the roofs of houses," he says.

The novel belongs to a period in Dostoevsky's life which the White House might find attractive, after he had been sent by the Tsar to a kind of Russian Guantánamo and emerged a deeply religious conservative.

Nonetheless, it is not clear whether Bush is identifying here with the terrorists - or the tyrants.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1395418,00.html