One or two more points from this piece of 'trash
journalism'
Question: Why would George W. have a home church
in Dallas TX?
When he was the Governor he lived in Austin TX
and his Ranch was then and is now in Crawford TX - not anywhere
near Dallas. And where would she get the idea that John
Wesley abandoned a fortune to live righteously with the poor? (like being
poor makes one righteous and holy or something). John Wesley never had a
fortune. He was the son of a preacher and one of 18 children. But God met
his needs and he wasn't too poor to travel from the UK to Georgia.
Jesus told one person with a problem to sell everything and this lady has
made it a rule for all "real Christians" - Those who don't conform are
then branded "Dalmations" who only keep the spots they like. How
ludicrous, as if the President is supposed to be some preacher or
something. Why put him down for being smart enough to make a
fortune?
I don't believe her charge that Karl Rove
spread filthy stories about Ann Richards either, these would have had the
George W's OK but they are ugly and mean spirited and I don't see
that kind of behavior now. I remember Ann Richards mocking him
when he ran for her job, calling him "the shrub" and saying he was born
with a silver spoon in his mouth but I've yet to see George W. ridicule
anyone's person. Their voting record and their job performance
- yes.
She writes:
If
he is anything at all, Bush is nominally Methodist, the denomination of
his home church in Dallas. John Wesley, Methodism�s founder, emphasized an
emotional �warming of the heart� to Christ as fundamental to conversion.
(That self-help ethos is evident in the resident�s �compassionate
conservatism.�) But Wesley was equal part freedom fighter: As a pastor in
17th-century England, he was barred from the pulpit for crusading against
the abhorrent evils of slavery. Wesley died a poor
man, his life a testament to Christ�s exhortation of charity in the Gospel
of Mark: �Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have
treasure in heaven.� Bush,
on the other hand, is no ascetic firebrand. The
president has a net worth of nearly $20 million, and there is no
indication that he is on the brink of abandoning his fortune to live
righteously with the poor. And unlike Wesley, Bush has never
compromised his political standing to challenge the conservative status
quo -- regardless of its Christian righteousness.
The president is, safe to say, a �Dalmatian�
Methodist.
