Posted by Bush Cartel on February 21, 2003 at 12:21:08:
Is the Pope Aiding and Abetting Terrorism?
According to the Bush Cartel, the answer is "yes."
John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney and Ari Fleischer have warned us: challenge the Bush
administration's strategy in its war on terror and you are aiding the terrorists.
So, in the Orwellian Bush Cartel world, God's emissary on earth for Catholics --
and the world's most high profile religious leader -- is a dangerous man. What's the
"heresy" the Pope is committing according to the Bush Cartel?
Well, the Pope is aiding and abetting terrorism because he wants a peaceful
solution to the Iraq crisis. To the Bush Cartel, if you don't subscribe to the
peculiarly perverse theory that war IS peace, then you are facilitating terrorism.
Will the Pope be detained for questioning by Italian police? Stay tuned.
But the Pope's advocacy against an Iraq attack as violating the dictates of God's
and Jesus' message of peace presents a more profound challenge to Bush. Just as
the Bush cartel seized control of our democracy through a 5-4 Supreme Court
decision -- despite another man winning the popular vote by more than a half a
million votes -- Bush has seized the mantle of God. In has daily oozing of
religiosity, Bush has claimed, in the most fundamental sense, that God is on his
side, the side of the avenging, wrathful Crusader, the side of unending conflict, the
side of the war with Iraq. Like all things Bush, the Bush family has an alarming
capacity for wrapping their arrogance in a cloak of Godliness and feigned
humility.
This sense of purity comes from their New England WASP background, where entitlement came with birth, allowing the Bushes to pal around with shady business figures and wallow in dirty politics, but claim to be insulted when anyone challenges their integrity or religion.
And the Pope is not alone.
Poppa Bush had no compunction about telling off the Bishop of the Episcopalian Church in America, Frank Griswold, implying that the Bishop is the one who is out of step with God, not the Bushes. The Episcopalian Church is Poppa and Barb's denomination. The Bishop is their religious leader. But no one is closer to God than the Bushes. In fact, George the Junior is always telling White House staff that it was God's will that he became president (which is probably an understandable perception on his part, since he lost the election).
Earlier this year, Griswold, who was Episcopal bishop of Chicago from 1987 to 1997 before being named presiding bishop of the United States in 1998, said, "We are loathed, and I think the world has every right to loathe us because they see us as greedy, self-interested and almost totally unconcerned about poverty, disease and suffering."
Griswold continues: "Listening to Anglican voices in the Middle East, it's very clear to me that they sense a war on the Iraqi people will be a complete destabilization of the entire Middle East. And what may be perceived here as a
focused attack on one particular country is going to erupt into something involving the whole region, if not the whole world. The focus on terrorism and fear and anxiety and heightened alerts make the U.S. populace more and more anxious and means we turn more and more inward and disconnect ourselves from the larger world. Our nation historically has been generous and so open to the rest
of the world, and now it's all turned in on itself.
"If we are a nation under God ... then we have to adopt God's perspectives, which means a superpower must be a super servant. I think this is what we don't see clearly," Griswold said. "The voices that are being raised up now are equivalent to the prophets of old saying, 'Wait a minute; what is justice here rather than retribution and revenge?' How are we being called to be a people of mercy, a people of compassion, a people who see the world as God's world
and that everyone in it is loved by God?"
And Junior, who officially changed from the Episcopalian Church to the Methodist Church when he married Laura, doesn't fare any better in his own denomination, which believes the Iraq attack will not be a "just war."
"Listen to the voice of hundreds of thousands of Americans and citizens of other countries who demonstrate for peace and ask your utmost restraint," Bishop Sharon Brown, president of the House of Bishops of the United Methodist Church -- to which both President Bush and Vice President Cheney belong -- recently appealed to Bush. Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert appeared in a television commercial
sponsored by the National Council of Churches asserting that an attack on Iraq "violates God's law."
But Bush the Junior isn't listening. He believes that, as a "chosen one" of blue blood lineage, he is hot-wired into the Lord. He doesn't need any uppity Bishop to tell him what is on God's mind. God is talking directly to Junior. End of conversation.
In fact, with the exception of the Southern Baptists and Evangelicals (the same people who supported slavery), almost every major denomination in
the United States opposes the war in Iraq
So the next time you hear George talking about God being behind his little war, just remember that Bush hijacked the government -- and now he's hijacking God.
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