Bush's State of the Union Address in 2003 was in part a promise to fellow evangelicals Christians. He used the words and structure of a Gospel hymn for part of his speech, " Yet there is power, wonder-working power in the goodness and idealism and faith of the American people." The actual hymn goes, " Power, power wonder-working power in the blood of the lamb." The hymn carries the promise of Christ's redemption. Thus Bush framed his personal evangelical mission and by extension brought the rest of us Americans along. Bush beleives in the Bible and little else. The Bible gives saved souls like his a " charge to keep". In return our president must spread Christianity to as many as possible. He came to use nation-building and democracy as his Trojan Horse to that purpose.
Here we all are 3 years later and Bush's delusional evangelical mission faces the blowback of reality from equally fanatical Muslim clerics. Yesterday in Kabul, Afganistan Abdul Rahman was being tried for his life under Islamic Shariah laws. These laws are condoned by the Karzai Afghan government. Rahman's crime was his conversion to Christianity about 15 years ago and only recently revealed in a child custody case. Note that Bush had nothing to do with this man's conversion. The clerics of the religious council called Ulema have the authority and aims to fulfill its own " charge" which is to execute him.
Too bad Bush read and only believed the Bible. If he had the curiosity to read the Koran or even a history book about the region he would have known that he was a loser from the get-go.
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