Was George W. Bush CHOSEN by God for the presidency?

[bluestateguy]

Evidently many conservative (white) Christians seem to think that their president was chosen by God. Therefore, to oppose George W. Bush is to oppose God, and THAT is a sin, all therefore, all opponents of Bush must be evil. It also is a quasi-admission that the American people did not, in fact, choose this president. Rather, he was chosen by God. I suspect that many fundamentalists believed this all along, but 9/11 made their argument more plausible to many more Americans who were easily duped into the post 9/11 culture of fear. The Christian Right has always fantasized about a holy war, led by a "moral" leader like George W. Bush, which explains many conservatives' inability to take any criticism of their Anointed One.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Read "Bush at War"

It seems that Bush Himself thinks that God appointed Him as His special agent on the Earth.

Of course, there's the small problem of blasphemy, but that's for non-"Christians".

--bkl

[opihimoimoi]

7. More like he was chosen to be the annointed PUPPET of the Pub Masters who

bitch slap him whenever he gets out of line.

Brain damaged from something, perhaps meth or ice as its called, he flounders on at the beck and call of those who placed him there.

Poor Bush, he don even know he being used and is the Patsy.

[alexwcovington]

2. Holy Crunching Bits

Talk about "The Imperial Presidency."

You're telling me the f***ing nutters want a return to ABSOLUTE MONARCHY of the olden days.

Ok, really not a shock... they had all the signs. But put bluntly it's scary.

Hehe... King George III of America. And it's really true, only two Georges before him.

[nostamj]

8. if we let them install the chimp again

we'll have Jeb for the next 8... that's the agenda.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. is that bush's pet name for PNAC and Cheney "God"???..like Pooty Poot?

[grytpype]

4. Last spring I wrote a whole blog on the subject...

http://templeofgwbush.blogspot.com

[grytpype]

18. http://templeofgwbush.blogspot.com

[nostamj]

5. the core Rove line for ANYONE who opposes *

is that they are committing treason and blasphemy.

* is entitled to his second term. period.

[Deja Q]

6. Talk about psychosis, anybody else saying they were chosen by God

would be locked up in a padded cell, labeled a nutter for all eternity, with the key melted down - not just thrown away.

* is one lucky bushbastard*.

[Spazito]

9. Hmmmm...

wasn't it Jesus, the SON of God, speaking for God, that forswore the money changers at the temples? If ever there was a "money changer" it is GW Bush! Just to name a few examples of money changes, let's talk Enron, Halliburton, etc. They bear false witness, to quote from the same "scripture" those who bow down to Bush profess to honor.

[morningglory]

10. Well, as Al Franken and others have pointed out,

if God wanted bush for President, he would have gotten the most votes, electoral and otherwise. Now we have an unChristian, thief squatting in our White House. God can not approve of this evil shithead waging war on people for approval ratings. That is, killing innocent people for his own motives. Axis of evil: Ashcroft, Cheney, Bush, Rummy, Wolfie, Perle, etc. Off with their frikkin heads.

[KittyWampus]

11. Tony Scalia Is No God

nnn

[Delarage]

14. I know for a fact

that God voted for Al Gore in 2000. However, he also wrote "Gore" on the ballot and thus disqualified the vote. This mistake has been cited by right-wingers as a vote "for" Bush, just the latest example of their distorted thinking.

Satan voted for Bush, mailed his absentee ballot in late and incomplete, but it was finished for him and counted.

[Boom_cha]

12. If I were God...

and I wanted to select someone to be the leader of a country, I would use my powers to ensure that he or she won by a landslide. That would be my signal of divine annointment. At the very least, I would make sure that my chosen candidate won a legitimate, clearcut electoral victory. By contrast, Bush lost the election to Gore despite his brother's illegal, pre-election purge of the voter rolls.

[Peace_2_Everyone]

13. NO

In Matthew 7:23 Jesus says ,“ I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Thousands of voters were treated inequity when they were purged from the voting rolls. W is “an abomination that maketh desolate” (Daniel 12:11), and was raised to power by Satan.


imho of course

[Octafish]

15. Bush STILL has an approval rating of 49 percent...

So whatever it is, still gives.



Satan to Spearhead Bush Campaign

After recently firing his publicist, George W. Bush searched up and down for a replacement, and today he announced that Satan will accept responsibilities for portraying his public image.

Bush explained, “Satan has a long history dealing with tricky situations, such as that whole battle with God and getting kicked out of heaven. I still say Satan was robbed. Anyway, Satan has developed a niche. He’s seen as the Lord of Darkness. With Satan working as my publicist, I can hopefully develop an equally strong public perception.”

Bush added, “Personally, I believe that Satan has qualities of integrity and honesty that I can only strive for.”

Bush further explained his choice of Satan by saying that he has not worshipped the devil in the past twenty-five years.

CONTINUED...

http://sci.villanova.edu/litterbox/f1999/

[Booberdawg]

16. GOD chose Gore. bush* was selected by felonious five on USSC

[pocoloco]

17. Not

If that were so he would be doing Christian Things!

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

19. George Bush was chosen by Satan

obviously. He's the anti-christ.

[PurityOfEssence]

20. If, on the extreme outside chance that there's a god, there's ample proof

that he/she/it is a total creep. So, if there is one, it's a fair bet that this is just another of its endearing bits of sadism.

[Lisa]

21. that would be logically inconsistent ...

If one believes that God must be good AND omnipotent (as all the Christians I've talked to seem to believe), either of those assumptions would be invalidated if one also believed that God had put George W. Bush in that job.


An omnipotent being would have forseen that Bush would be so incompetent, getting thousands of innocent people killed and messing up not just his own country, but a bunch of others. (Heck, if you look at the archives of DU and other political websites, a LOT of people had serious misgivings about Bush even before the end of the campaign -- and if someone like me, say, could see disaster looming, for sure a divine power would be way ahead of that.)

And a good being would not want people to be harmed ... let alone for such self-serving and fundamentally unjust reasons.

I'm not a logician, but the three options I came up with would be that a) God isn't good (or at least not just then ... as in the old Irish saying, "The Devil is actually God when he's drunk"); b) God really didn't think it would get this bad; or c) God didn't do it, cheating/apathy did.

[CarlBallard]

24. Republicans must think

God hates america. Of course that's what Falwell thinks isn't it?

[gulliver]

22. A strong case can be made for it.

Just for the sake of argument, Bush could easily have been chosen by God -- as a lesson. Bush has taught us how bad a president can be, how much damage a president can do. It is a valuable (if painful) lesson.

Times could get really, really rough fifty years from now. Maybe God saw Bush as the best way to discredit greed, spite, stupidity, and inhumanity. Bush is God's counter-example.

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Anyone who thinks Junior was "chosen by god"...

is a brain-damaged fuckwit who ought to be euthanised for his own good. These swine seem to forget (or possibly never to have known) that part of the theory behind the Republic of the United States was to do away with the noxious bullshit known as the divine right of rulers once and for all.

[gate of the sun]

25. NO and I can't believe people are so

ignorant.

[Jack Rabbit]

26. Only if the god is Moloch

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!

Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgement! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!

Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovas! Moloch whose factories dream and choke in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!

Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!

Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream angels! Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!

Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!

Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisable suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!

They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstacies! gone down the American river!

Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years' animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time!

Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!

-- from Howl by Allen Ginsberg

[leesa]

27. This is one of Karl Rove's greatest successes, scamming the foolish

born-agains. This was planned down to the smallest detail, including a fake year-long retreat by Dubya to "study the bible". Billy Graham was in on this con job.

[Nikia]

28. No

George plays the evil villain character that must be defeated in order for good to reign again. If the true religion were Star Wars, he would be with the dark side.

[SaintLouisBlues]

29. Chosen by DOG

Got the whole damn thing ass backwards.

[quaker bill]

30. No

His ideas and policies are precisely anti-christian. I do not mean anti-church, I mean against the actual message attributed to Christ.

You know, the "That which you do for the least among you...." stuff.

[eileen_d]

31. it's the other way around

George W. Bush and some of his supporters have chosen God to justify his presidency. Meanwhile, God is all:

[einsteins stein]

32. Was George W. Bush chosen, by god, for the presidency?

Just add a few commas, and you can easily answer yes. Chosen by the SCOTUS, by god!

Get it? Get it?

You see, I added that comma...and then that one... and now it seems like...like I'm saying "He was, by God!" you know?....and thats funny...and, maybe ironic, I guess...and...and...

oh fergedit...

[Liberator_Rev]

33. So long as people don't know that Christ was a Liberal

So long as Christians are allowed to operate on the illusion created by phoney Christians that people can follow Christ and NOT be Liberals, then people like Bush, Delay, Helms, etc., etc., will be able to get away with calling themselves "Christians".

IMHO, the obvious answer is to mount a campaign to promote nationwide in every way open to us :
http://www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org .

See what Christ might say about the "Christian Coalition" & "Religious Right" imposters.