The Church of Bush
By John Steinberg | RAW STORY COLUMNIST
Bush conflates religion and politics not because he wants the religious to see him as one of them. He does so because he knows that if they treat politics as a form of religion, he becomes their God.
Roughly 40 years ago Robert F. Kennedy eloquently argued for idealism in a time of great conflict. He said, “Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not." The growing schism now rending America is far more frightening: it is between those who see things as they are, and those who choose to believe in the objectively false so long as it props up doctrine. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/6x7bz
© Virginia Metze
Bush conflates religion and politics not because he wants the religious to see him as one of them. He does so because he knows that if they treat politics as a form of religion, he becomes their God.
Roughly 40 years ago Robert F. Kennedy eloquently argued for idealism in a time of great conflict. He said, “Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not." The growing schism now rending America is far more frightening: it is between those who see things as they are, and those who choose to believe in the objectively false so long as it props up doctrine. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/6x7bz
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 30. Jul, 11:47
