Sermon Bush heard today: Katrina gives new generation a reason to vote

[Rose Siding]

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The Bushes, the Cheneys, and several Cabinet members began the day at a prayer service at St. John's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Park across from the White House. They joined the congregation in reciting prayers for the victims and survivors of Sept. 11 and the hurricane.

The Rev. Luis Leon preached that the anniversary was a time for healing and forgiveness and said the attacks have inspired a new generation to become more politically active. ''If they ever wondered why they should bother to vote, then 9-11 and certainly now Katrina gave them an answer,'' Leon said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush.html

Since everyone KNOWS there is NOTHING about Katrina that recommends Bush, isn't the preacher getting a dig in here?

I think that's why the paper picked it up.

[Kolesar]

1. Love it. NYTimes has been ripping * apart on the hurricane...eom

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. bout bloody time

[RevCheesehead]

3. I got my digs in today's sermon, too.

The text is on forgiveness, where we are told to forgive not 7 times, but 77 times.. in other words, without counting.

I brought up 9/11, and said "Now, we are, according to some, 'a Christian Nation.' Considering our response was to strike back, to get involved in another war totally unrelated to the attack, with countless dead and wounded, I ask you: Did this supposedly Christian nation act like Christ wants us to? And, I might add, as long as this nation supports the death penalty, we have no business even pretending we are a Christian anything."

Sometimes ya gotta strike when you can.

[AnnieBW]

4. Rev...

If you were a priest in my parish, I'd still be a Christian. ;)

[RevCheesehead]

6. If I were a priest in your parish, hell would have frozen over.

The current leadership doesn't look to fondly on my, er, breasts. :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Funny, I heard about some long-haired hippy jew who had similar

troubles with the establishment. ;)

[RevCheesehead]

9. Yeah - those damned liberals are everywhere!

Hi, GPV! :hi:

I ordered a bunch of CafePress bumperstickers to get the message out in my in-your-face, biblical way. :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Cool! *hugs*

[wellstone dem]

5. Good job

keep fighting the good fight. Fortunately, Christ gives you lots of good material to use to move people to do what is right.

[wellstone_democrat]

7. He spends more time in my church than his own

He rarely goes to church---two weeks in a row? Wow, damage control is still ongoing!

Everytime I have seen him in a church setting (story or pic) its an Episcopal church. If he expected to hear anything else in an EC than what he did, he's either delusional or profoundly unacquainted with our stands (Personally, I don't think he cares, he's there for the photogs...). I'd be interested to know if there has ever been an actual sighting of him in a Methodist service (that isn't a wedding or a funeral).

Well, there is always the hope that God will send him a lightning bolt...I didn't say I was a *good* Episcopalian, just that I am. I wish he'd use someone else's church for a change---particularly his own.

[RevCheesehead]

12. Only when he's back in Texas.

methodists in DC are very, very liberal - he would be, um, "out of place" there.

[wellstone_democrat]

13. They sure aren't the Methodists I knew at home (Boston) in Midland

where bush claims to come from---they aren't like any Methodists I've ever run into as a matter of fact. I find them frightening.

Does "conservative" Methodism generally run toward the constant public condemning to hell or death (or, one would suspect: both!)? That's all I ever hear from my several Methodist colleagues---they outdo the Baptists here in condemnation and that is certainly saying something. My Boston suburban hometown did not have any of that variety. I wondered if there was some sort of different group or off shoot of the Methodists here---they use all the same logo/titles though....

[RevCheesehead]

14. Well, I call them Bapto-Methodists.

Does that answer your question? :evilgrin:

Methodist are the great chameleon religion - we tend to take on the characteristics of the dominant religion in the area. So Southern Methodists are more Baptist-leaning, here in WI we're more Lutheran/Catholic (the liberal side), and so on.

[wellstone_democrat]

16. ah, makes sense! "mine" were Congre-Episco-Methodist

But, they do "out-Baptist" the southern baptists down in my "happy" little corner of the world!!!

[johnaries]

10. LOL! Was the preacher placing a dig? Yes! Did Bush get it?

He probably thought it was a compliment.

[Rose Siding]

15. I weighed that myself

But he's so petty and thin skinned, he just might have picked up on it.