(AP) Aide: Bush Faith Has Been Misunderstood

[DrFunkenstein]

WASHINGTON - President Bush's religious faith is "mainstream America" and no different from previous presidents, the director of his Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives said Friday.

He said of Bush, "He's so mainstream America on matters of faith" and similar to people who pray privately "in restaurants, out on their farms and in their small businesses."

"He does not believe God told him to run, or told him he would win, or that God told him to drop any bombs anywhere in the world. That's not his theology, his philosophy, his ethos," Caldwell said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=1&u=/ap/bush_religion

The most astounding passage in “Plan of Attack” comes in the epilogue, when Woodward is recounting one of his tape-recorded interviews with the President:

I asked about his father in this way: “Here is the one living human being who’s held this office who had to make a decision to go to war. And it would not be credible if you did not at some point ask him, What are the ingredients of doing this right? Or what’s your thought, this is what I’m facing.”

Bush: "You know, he is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to."

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040510crbo_book...

George W. Bush plumbed the deepest place in himself, looking for a simple expression of what the assaults of September 11 required. It was his role to lead the nation, and the very world. The President, at a moment of crisis, defines the communal response. A few days after the assault, George W. Bush did this. Speaking spontaneously, without the aid of advisers or speechwriters, he put a word on the new American purpose that both shaped it and gave it meaning. "This crusade," he said, "this war on terrorism."

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19785



Any comments on the misunderstanding of Bush's faith?

[jimshoes]

1. Why not just have a pemanent halo

attached to his head. Clown.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

4. Bush has misunderstood his faith

Bush thinks declaring you are Christian and born again every five minutes is license to send soldiers to their death in an unjust war, rob from the middle and poor classes to feather his rich friends' pockets, totally lie about how the economy and unemployment is doing, make sure that 45 million Americans aren't afforded decent health care, that all children are left behind, and lie and lie and lie - because God told him to.

His idea of religion is more in the line of Hitler's. Hitler claimed he was devout, too.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. No way is he mainstream Christian

His beliefs aren't even mainstream Methodist-at least they are not anything like the tenets of that faith that I learned in my childhood.

[Warpy]

3. Bingo, there's a reason that man never sets foot in a church

It's because his rich man's bible study bullshit is so far outside the mainstream that he can't handle the cognitive dissonance he'd find within a mainstream church.