Christians,  Did Bush turn his back on us?
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yes, but more importantly he has turned his back on god!!!!!!!!!!  \n\nplus i didn't matter that a christian was killed but more important that it was a human!!!!!!
408984
most definately, yes. god really help us if we were to get another president like bush again.
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Many wish he would be.\nThe reality is , if he does ; then there would be great uproar. The American public would suffer, especially the working middle class and the lower bracket earners. \nThe woes would just be unbearable!!\nThe economy of the USA would be negatively affected or even bought down lower that it already is.\nThe fact is  : Bush is using the "Born again church" to his advantage.\nIs he a Christain - Very much questionable, no signs of it. Hah!\nHe is as much Christian as Bin Laden is Muslim.
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He resigned due to an ACCUSATION.  We do not know at this time whether or not the accusation is true.  Neither are we qualified to judge this man's heart.  Give this some time and I suspect the truth will come out.  If he's a hypocrit, God will punish Him until he repents.  Either way, it's out of our hands and we'd do best to remember that.\n\nPeace.
927503
Oh, yasss!  When I was a'preachin' I didn't want my parishioners to think for themselves, I wanted them to listen to me and do as I told them God expected them to do.  I was an absolute dictator, and they blithely accepted the excrement I fed them and opened their mouths for more.  I got out of the preachin' business, got my head out of my behind and realized what I was doing and that there is no God - and my former parishioners remain as ignorant and unquestioning as before.  If I tried to tell them the ugly truths I learned about religion, they'd not just walk away,  they'd RUN away!  Fear.  It has worked for untold centuries.  It works today.  Just listen to George Bush prattle about the terr'ists about to rain down uponst us with WMDs and musshoom clouds 'n all that wickedness.  Almost half the electorate still falls for his scare tactics - witness how many voted Republican last Tuesday!  Naw, it ain't a natural byproduct, it's deliberately and cynically manufactured, this pervasive fear factor.  Looky there: terrists!  WMDs!  Nukular weapons!  BOO!
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I think he sees himself as someone who is preparing the way for the return of Christ.  The anti-christ will be someone we all love and respect, that's definintely NOT Bush.
248112
Exactly my point, my friend. The thing is, and I'll try to avoid sterotyping Americans as they so carelessly do with Arabs. It is un-"American" to strip so many of their liberty in the name of "freedom". It is un"Christian" to disrespect a fellow human the way that has been done. It is extremely naive to think that the Bush administration is trying to help, knowing that Bush's family has gathered so much wealth through the exploitation of petroleum. I don't see how people don't spend more time on questions like these. Questions that matter. Thank you very much, my friend. (BTW, I'm an American Citizen of a Christian Church)
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Its a myth to sell George Bush to Christian evangelicals. \nWith all due respect to Marvin Olassky (sp?), the author of this doctrine, even the evangelicals are unhappy with Bush's broken promises. Compassionate Conservative really means social Darwinism.  They'll toss a crust of bread to someone if  they will allow some proslytizing up front - but take funds out of secular social safety net programs.  Its the new theocracy.
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Jesus Himself asked Peter, "Do you love me?   ...then feed my sheep!"\n\nLove is not turning our backs to our brothers and sisters who do not know Christ (though it often times involves less conflict and persecution). That is the opposite of love (and it is sad that such apathy toward the calling to share the Gospel often comes under the deceptive banner of "tolerance").
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Yeah he is trying and it is making me turn against my church. I have been Christian all my life but after 2000, I completely stopped going to church. Neocons don't seem to understand what being a Christian is. I believe it is trying to be as Jesus... of which I can't see any actions of this administration being that way.
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First off, let me start by quoting Jim Wallis, the author of God's Politics.  He says that God is not a democrat or a republican, and rather than worrying about whether or not God is on our side, we should be concerned about whether or not we are on God's side.\n\nThere are plenty of good Christians who oppose the president, you have over simplified the matter.  There are plenty of Christians that are concerned with maintaining the separation of church and state (anyone who has studied the history of "Christian nations" would support this) and not expanding the power of the president.  Visit the webiste in the sources section to read some more about this.  And the book "God's Politics:  Why the right gets it wrong and the left doesn't get it" is a great read!\n\nAs for prayer in school, student led prayer led by student sponsored groups outside of school hours (either before or after school) are allowed and many are prospering.  The "Meet Me at the Flagpole" groups are a great example.  Also, the Supreme Court has ruled that if a school rents out space, they cannot deny space to religious groups.  So, Christian churches are actually able to rent school auditoriums to have church on Sunday's.  There are dozens of these types of churches in Hillsborough County, Fl (Tampa).\n\nHillsborough County is also a good example of Muslims not getting as much respect as Christians.  Muslims were unable to get any of their religious holidays added to a school calendar that recognizes both Jewish and Christian holidays.\n\n"We haven't bombed any other countries lately have we?"  You are kidding, right?  Just this week we bombed Pakistan hoping to hit terrorist leaders, who it appears were not actually there.\n\nI am also posting an article written by one of my professors on the true state of religous liberty in America.  Its short, and it will help you understand the true state of things.
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APPARENTLY YOUR FIRST THREE RESPONSES WERE MADE BY BUSH CONSERVATIVES....YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL... THEY CHANGE THE SUBJECT TO SUIT THEIR NEEDS...AND THEN ATTEND CHURCH WHILE \nTHEIR LOVERS ARE SITTING IN THE BACK PEWS WITH THEIR WIVES/HUSBANDS...SUCH HYPOCRITES....!!!  YOU REALLY RILLED THEM UP...MAYBE THEY WILL FORGET TO TITHE THE CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY..!!! OR THEY WILL FORGET TO ANSWER ON THE NEXT SURVEY HOW "WONDERFUL" MR.BUSH IS DOING..!!
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One of our biggest problems--and the fastest way of turning others off to faith--is that so many of us believers think our way is the only way to approach God.  We don't allow for differences in the body of believers.  Jesus had dinner with tax collecors, allowed a prostitute to anoint him, and had fellowship with the woman at the well.  In fact, many of the most powerful moments in his ministry involved his encounters with folk who scandalized the establishment.  \n\nWho are we to try to ban someone just because he has a few ideas different than ours if Jesus refused to do that?\n\nPS for David:  I hope your sabbath was all you hoped for.  Blessings!
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I don't agree with this. Ask him what he thinks of Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, and John F. Kennedy. Then ask him what he thinks of Adolf Hitler. Any criticism there? Is Germany any less a Christian nation than the USA? Didn't God choose Hitler to be a leader?\n\nI believe in Jesus as my Savior, not a President. \n\nGod wants us to pray for our leaders and follow them, yes. But we have a responsibility to question them and hold them accountable as thinking people and as law abiding people. They are to be held to even higher standards than we are, according to the Bible. \n\nThis same reasoning of your pastor's is what Hitler used during WWII to brainwash nations to follow him in the name of God. \n\nI think it's blasphemous to send so many soldiers into Iraq in the name of peace. I also think it's lying to say there are weapons of mass destruction where there are none to be found and arrogant not to admit your mistake. \n\nThis kind of thinking irks me. Why was there no talk of this when Monica was in the spotlight? \n\nIf you don't know who Monica is, ask your pastor.\n\nGood for you for talking to your pastor, but don't forget you have the Bible to guide you. God speaks to you as much as He speaks to him.
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Bush is no Christian, if he was he would not allow all these things to happen to our country. I believe that this man was born to destroy America. The first thing he did was to take the surplus, that everyone in this country worked so hard for, and distribute it amongs his round table friends. Thank God he was not given a chance to put our Social security dollars in the stock market, a place where his frinds could make billions more on the hard working class. Given enough time, this man would cause more damage to our country, and the world, than the evil Hitler himself.....KECK
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Geez..Bush is quick to pronounce himself a "good Christian" and good Christians have been murdering people and cultures for centuries all under the belief that they are improving the world.   With Christianity on the rise, why would you think this will stop anytime soon?\n\nBesides Bushbaby and his cronies are making a ton off the "rebuilding" of Iraq, waiting to pounce on IRAN and trying to salvage a presidency and republican control of the houses by masking the fact he's an idiot!
1060422
Yes because most right wing Christians are pussies who worship Bush as opposed to God. They are fine with war as long as it is not their blood being shed. Most of them are wimps who wouldn't fight anyway.