On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:49:18 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > > It is nationalistic idolatry. We are not the good. > > Actually, that's not what Bush is saying.
But right below, you say he *is* saying it, don't you? > ...what > one does to bad guys is OK because we know who are the good guys and > the bad guys. Perhaps you don't see it as nationalistic because he allows for the existence of "good guys" who aren't Americans. But the definition of a good guy is anybody who agrees with our national policies. Everybody else is working against us, for the forces of evil. > I sincerely think > that Bush thinks God's will for the world is a prosperous world > filled with people living in peace and freedom everywhere. I can't see that, since he seems to clearly want some people dead, by which I mean he seeks peace at the barrel of a gun. I see an enormous conflict between "wipe out the evil-doers" and "blessed are the peacemakers." > If we are only faithful, God will ensure that we will succeed. I > don't think this is sound. There was no such hubris in the six-point plan -- it was based on faith, not might. Nobody was selling it as a guaranteed solution; it was a faith-based initiative. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
