I'd always thought that George W. Bush was a religious phony. He was just the typical Republican, throwing bones to the religious right to score political points. In my defense, he played the game like the rest of them, talking the talking while not walking the walk. He'd make a big deal out of how similar he was to the GOP base -- hating the right people and holding the religiously correct positions -- while doing very little for that base. They wanted abortion to be illegal, they got a capital gains tax cut. They wanted evolution out of schools, they got No Child Left Behind. They wanted a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, they got an attempt to privatize Social Security. The religiously-based changes Bush made were mostly temporary, policies set by executive order that could easily be changed by following presidents. The zealots got very little in terms of lasting change. The evidence points to Bush being only an ordinary madman, not a lunatic of the religious type. Looking at what he left behind, you'd assume he was just a talentless ideologue who took a job beyond his ability and found the ideology he relied on to fill in the gaps wanting. In no way have two terms of George W. Bush left the world any better. In many ways, he left it worse. But, in any case, there's nothing especially Christian about any of it, other than the language and the propaganda.But what if Bush was that very special type of religious fanatic -- the truest of true believers? What if Bush was an "End Times" nut and his politics were based on the belief that the Apocalypse was just around the corner? What would abortion and gay marriage and evolution matter then? If Jesus is coming back tomorrow, which would be more important; saving people who were already damned or cashing out as quickly as possible?
There can be no real doubt that Bush policies allowed the already wealthy to make themselves even wealthier. New evidence shows that he thought it was one last party before the end... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
