Judy, Bush is not a member of any church
regardless of location. Your lack of knowledge of Karl Rove is rather
astounding. No one currently in politics is considered to be dirtier. Do some
google searches. You will be amazed at what you find out. I can guarantee you
it won’t be Christian.
JBH
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Muir
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004
7:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Bush and
Christianity
It's the title of a documentary. It suggests that Bush's
brain is in reality Karl Rove.
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Sent: October 29, 2004
07:00
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk]
Bush and Christianity
Judyt: What's wrong with Bush's
Brain? Doesn't he meet your intellectual standards Lance?
Please see/hear 'Bush's Brain'.
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.
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.
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