Do some right wingers almost worship Bush as a God?

[donheld]

Is it just me or do others notice this too?

To accuse him of any mis-deeds it like accusing the son of God of wrong doing. From the war in Iraq to mis-deeds with voter fraud to Katrina and on and on. It's like they think he's above reproach on every damn thing. Maybe it's due to the fact for years they felt the country was becoming too secular, too muslim, too jewish, too catholic whatever, and they were looking for someone to save the country for Jesus.

This seems to be true especially with the religious crowd. At least that's how it appears to me.

[MnFats]

1. Oh, yeah. They believe God put him in office, regardless of ...

what the voters had to say...Bush uses many phrases in his speeches designed to pander to the Rapture Right...it is deeply troubling, since they expect the end of the world any minute now....

[Chevy]

2. You are correct!

They are kool-aide drinking fundamentalist freepers. :grr:

[donheld]

6. Welcome to DU Chevy

:hi:

[calimary]

52. Welcome to DU!

Glad you're here to help us get RID of some of these bastards. Especially he-who-would-make-himself-God.

IMPEACHMENT NOW!!!!!!!!!

[Montauk6]

3. Hel-loooooo????

Seriously though, abso-friggin-lutely.

Those on the sidelines observing can either laugh their heads off or shake them in disbelief as the freepers try to keep up with a defense for every one of Bushco's lies.

My favorite is the WMD explanation: oh, Saddam shipped them SECRETLY to Syria when no one was looking.

Even if all the smoking guns come out a-blazin', they will be there to make one last ditch attempt to rationalize what amount to criminal behavior--and I'll bet you it'll be feeble attempt to involve Bill or Hillary.

[donheld]

8. "when no one was looking"

I think the last time no one was looking was maybe 1947. I've heard that line soooo many times it's going to drive me postal.

[noahmijo]

4. Yes they do

There's this fellow at the Queensryche forumn (A QUEENSRYCHE FORUMN OF ALL PLACES TO FIND WINGNUTS) who has outright called Bush a complete hero and that he cannot do any wrong.

[Bluebear]

5. "almost"???

[donheld]

7. That picture says at least 1000 words

If that's not a worshipful face I've never seen one.

[Chevy]

9. What happened?

In the last 10 years that created these dangerous folks:wtf:

Oh yes I remember now: Clinton the evil doer.

Glad to be here donheld:toast:

[donheld]

11. Yes dear old Clinton got caught with his pants down

He's soooo immoral. These folks will argue to no end about how wonderfully moral Bushie is. Sex is the only moral they have anymore.



Well i'm off to bed. :boring: Good night all

[Sir Jeffrey]

42. In the late 1970's...

a heavy push was on in the midwest and south to get evangelicals to vote en masse for conservatives. Before that, many religious types refused to take part in the process and were discouraged by their pastor/priest/whatever to get involved...the idea being that politics was a corrupt game and, were you to participate in it, you became tainted by it.

There is a fabulous book about this written by Steve Bruce, "Pray TV". It takes you through the history of America's evangelicism and shows that, as a new medium emerges in American society, the first and generally most effective manipulators of that system have been the nutcases and pseudo-religious hustlers.

So I guess you could say that these "dangerous folks" have been with us since the beginning...they became "dangerous" when they started voting the way they were told to by their religious leaders.

[nine23]

14. No need for a thousand words. Just two: cult member.

[salin]

29. creepy - I heard Clinton speak two times

once in Ann Arbor during the 1992 campaign, and once in San Jose in the lead up to the 1996 campaign. He is a great speaker. Moves the audiences. But never did I see any expression like the one in that picture. Really, really creepy.

[Usrename]

17. What was it he was spewing yesterday?

I swear he said:
"a love greater than death"
it sent shivers up my spine. Should I know what this means? WTF does it mean? Is it a Robertson thing?

[barbaraann]

36. That sounds Satanic to me.

n/t

[Bluebear]

45. "Muddy waters can't quench a love" or something like that

[Usrename]

55. It seems to have been scrubbed, can't find a word of it anywhere,

but I swear when I listened live, he said "love greater than death" and I was so discombobulated that I don't even remember the context. He said it real slow, like it was real important. I'm pretty sure I remember what I heard cause it caused me to meditate on the phrase for a while.

could have been "muddy waters can't quench a love greater than death"

creeps me the fuck out though - bouncing around like a plinko game in my conciousness - just can't get any synapses to fire on it

[NuttyFluffers]

64. from Song of Solomon, but butchered.

what i'm trying to decipher is the "why?" what does that line cryptically say to the apocalyptic death cult? that the dead and drowned are a sign of the end times? i don't get it.

[Fridays Child]

10. I know a real live freeper (unfortunately), and if B*sh put a...

...flaming bag of dog shit on her front porch, she'd declare it a wonderful thing. She actually said that he was a stud in his flight suit. I didn't know whether to laugh or hurl.

[Chevy]

12. Do both!!

On her fancy shoes:puke:

[ZinZen]

58. She would probably say that the Virgin Mary was in

that flaming dog poo. Bushbots are scary f^cks.

[moobu2]

13. Those types are very prone to personality cults

That's why all the Karl Rove PR works so well with them. All it takes is a few photo's of Bush with some firemen with a flag background and they're drooling...it's very strange but not unheard of. A lot of people are very susceptible to personality cultism.

[Nay]

27. Agreed. Several coworkers (nonreligious) fall into this type of

worship. As I've said before, Bush could kill a baby in front of the cameras and they'd explain it away somehow.

The people who are susceptible to cults of personality IMHO are unreachable until their own lives fall apart, and maybe not even then. The emotional high they seem to get is really unrelated to the person in question, except perhaps in the sense of party affiliation. None of these coworkers, for example, worshipped Clinton just because he was the president -- no, it had to be with a repub. I truly don't see many dems doing "personality cult" stuff with dem candidates. I'm sure there are some, but it is no where near as pervasive as with the pubs. It must have to do with the mix of religion, ignorance, TV, and just general dumbness.

[salin]

32. what is so creepy is that there is no personality

it is staged, managed, and manufactured.

He doesn't write his own speeches - those phrases to pander to the religious right are someone else's phrases. He doesn't just walk into these opportunities for photos because he is out and about working with these folks - they are carefully created.

Can't recall witnessing a "Cult of Personality" where the personality is absent and/or an illusion.

[Murdock]

15. Yes...

And this is why the Republicans in congress won't distance themselves from him..

The "Cult of Personality" is in full effect.

[oblivious]

16. I have relatives in California that see him as a saint if not a god.

They pray for his safekeeping. Everything he does is "wonderful, just wonderful".

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. That's why when I see one of their vehicles

I try to leave one of these under the windshield.



?bnm

I can imagine the dilemma this must cause them, because it is an insult to their fearless leader, yet at the same time if they tear it up they are destroying Jesus.

[Scoots]

19. Are You Kidding??

You've got to be joking. To worship Bush they would have to deny their one true God -- Ronald Reagan. No, they only worship Bush as part of the holy Republican trinity: Reagan, George W, and Lincoln.

[...of J.Temperance]

20. It says in the Bible that you shouldn't worship False Idols, somehow I

Think Junior is a "God" but he's been sent from "the Other place"...if you catch my drift?

I NEVER used to believe in this Anti-Christ stuff, until Junior came along...and low and behold, he's NOW brought about "floods and great disease amongst the people and the animals." Which I believe is mentioned in the last book of the Bible.

Personally, I'm agnostic, however I also think that Junior is the Beast that was spoken of.

[not fooled]

26. funny you should say that...

...there's a fundie guy in my lab (a scientist who doesn't believe in evolution...go figure:eyes: ) but anyway, this guy (who is a real Christian and therefore automatically appalled by *'s warmongering and maltreatment of the poor) believes that * and the admin are agents of Satan i.e. the antichrist on a mission to battle the goodness of Jesus. Makes sense to me!

[Zynx]

30. Whether they are or not, they certainly play the role well.

[cornermouse]

21. Yes, they do.

A lot of them have basically put Bush on the same level of sinlessness and perfection that they put Christ. And the really odd thing is that they don't seem to realize that's what they're doing.

[Robeson]

22. Absolutely. Its an imperial cult. To them, he's God's vicar on earth...

...its not farfetched. Many rulers in history have taken that mantle, and the people followed.

[Lerkfish]

23. yup. Ask them to choose between Jesus and Bush...if you see

even a slight hesitation, they've already chosen.

It would be a fun game to play, because you see their rising anger...for asking a simple question about who they honor more.

NOTE: for right wing christians, that is. I guess for others you have to say "choose between the Torah and Bush, or choose between something something and Bush.

[KG]

24. only slightly more than many DUers worship St. Bill of Clinton.

:eyes:

[Lars39]

25. Yes.

Had that confirmed recently by SB fundy missionary BIL who only watches Fox news. Batshit crazy.

[mmonk]

28. Those

willingly blind are the most adamant in their blindness.

[donco6]

31. Absolutely.

Freaky, ain't it?

[Poiuyt]

33. The New American Religion: George Bush as a Cult Figure.

This is a GREAT article:

http://eternal-hope.mydd.com/story/2005/8/21/165238/262

A reader on my blog comments that George Bush is like God to the right-wingers. She makes a very good point; the new American religion is the belief that George Bush is the most infallible person since the Bible was completed 2000 years ago.

This religion, which I will call Bushism, is a logical extension of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalist Christianity is a belief system in which the Bible is infallible and the final authority by which to determine right from wrong. Derived from the Bible is a set of beliefs by which fundamentalists determine who is really Christian and who is not:

more-

[leftofthedial]

34. "almost"?

ha ha ha ha! That's a good one! ROFLMAO!

[Mark E. Smith]

35. I think Kenny Bunkport's whole Marlboro Man routine ...

... arouses something sexual in the repressed little buggers.

[barbaraann]

37. You get a lot of interesting results when you Google: cowboy homosexuality

For example:

http://www.hackcanada.com/homegrown/redneckhomoconspiracy.html

http://www.seacoastonline.com/2003news/10_14elliott.htm

[suegeo]

38. There is something not right with these people

Nothing, no wrong doing, no blunder, gets through to them.

9.11 was a horrible disaster, yet they think of it as a Bush success.

They lied about WMDs to get the country into a war where billions of dollars vanish and many people are killed.

They allow people to die in a predicted flood after a predicted hurricane.

Those are just the top three crimes committed.

Yet they still stand by their man.

Psychologists must have an explanation for this. This isn't the first time in human history that people have so blindly followed such a horrible leader.

[donheld]

56. Yet with Clinton it was just the opposite

The US was loved home and abroad, the economy was going like a wildfire. The environment was getting attention, but in their eyes, nothing he did could possibly please them.

[Stuckinthebush]

39. My take on this...

Many fundamentalist Christians (and I distinguish them from conservatives) honestly believed that Bush was delivered from on high. They believe that he is the servant of the Lord and that being the servant of god, he can do no wrong.

They have bought into this idea, hook, line and sinker. So, when GW does stupid and immoral things, cognitive dissonance takes over. They know deep down that he is a terribly flawed person who is the farthest thing from divinely inspired, but they have bought the package and now can't bear to say, "Oops".

If they admit mistake, that perhaps Bush isn't provided by God, then their whole world view crumbles. The fundamentalist's base of existences is rather shaky anyway. It doesn't take much for it to be toppled.

The dangerous part about this is that they will defend their inaccuracies until death to avoid the ultimate re-thinking of their philosophies. This means, that Bush will never do wrong.

[Robeson]

43. Excellent summary of this disorder....

...you've stated the phenomenon nicely. The scariest aspect is described in your last paragraph, especially the last sentence.

[Sir Jeffrey]

40. "Pray for President Bush Day 1823"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485272/posts

"Pray for President Bush Day 1823"

snip

"When he was inaugurated the minister who prayed with him prayed this passage from Isaiah 54:11-17:

11 O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, I am about to set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires. 12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of jewels, and all your wall of precious stones. 13All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the prosperity of your children. 14In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. 15If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you. 16See it is I who have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and produces a weapon fit for its purpose; I have also created the ravager to destroy. 17No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, says the LORD.

As we can see from the very beginning of his presidency this has been proven true. This Word is more powerful than any weapon on earth. The left are like the horsemen of Pharoah being led by the nose to their eventual slaughter and annihilation by Almighty God. Their attacks are only provoking the Lord to judge them. And judge them He will."

These people are fucking lunatics.

[liberalitch]

41. take a look at this..... that partnership may be on the wane.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/09/17/god/ind...

[donheld]

48. File not found

:shrug:

[liberalitch]

61. Where'd it go?

That's fucked up

[Az]

44. The two main arms of the repugs are faith based

The religious right is obviously faith based. But the economic side is based on faith as well. Specifically faith in the Free Market and the myths surrounding it.

[Seansky]

46. a friend of mine who traveled all over and works

for one of the largest banks in the country repeated to me the entire list of RW talking point with one 100% conviction that they were the truth, facts and honest reasons...I almost lost it when I learned of his willingness to believe anything the RW were saying, even though he disagree with the financial disaster they created and with their religious fanatism...

[MisterP]

47. 2002: "God put me in office" 2003: "I asked God over Iraq"

2004: "God speaks through me"
2005: ...
There's now only one step left. If Octavian could do it, President Satan can too!

[sakabatou]

49. Like the Bush prayer team...

[insanity]

50. Theological dilema

They think God himself appointed Bush and advises him on who to screw over next. I once asked a Freeper if Kerry won, would God have also appointed him? His response was that it was the influence of the Devil. My next question is, who do you think is stronger God or the Devil. Naturally he answered God. So I asked him if everything that happened on Earth was in God's willing. He answered yes. I pointed out to him that if God could will everything and was stronger then the Devil, then Kerry would also be apointed by God. The answer to this was astounding, "No, the devil played tricks on the weak to get them to vote for his candidate." I ended the conversation pointing out the theological dilema that maybe the devil actually played tricks on the weak and appointed Bush, or maybe he just stole the election, because God gave us free will, and thats how Bush used it. Suffice to say, he didn't have a valid retort.

[calimary]

51. Yes, they do. A friend and former newsroom colleague of mine

told me that he's seen proof of it.

He has roots in the Bible belt. He went home on vacation recently, and ran into a childhood friend and onetime neighbor of his. A nice enough guy, he recalled. But, the minute my friend made a single comment against bush, he told me his friend turned white as a sheet, eyes bugged out, and gasped. "You CAN'T talk that way about bush! You DARE NOT QUESTION HIM!!! Don't you know he's Jesus? He's been anointed - sent to us by GOD!"

The guy was dead serious. I've knowm my friend for more than two decades and worked alongside him for at least half that time. He is not given to exaggerations or tall tales. He told me this story while STILL shaking his head in disbelief. He said it was scary because he truly believed his pal was completely serious.

Yes, there are people especially in the Bible belt (or is that the Buy-BULL belt?) who have been forcefed this shit almost exclusively, the "Old Time Gospel Hour" crap, and they've completely surrendered their brains and their better judgment and their critical thinking, because the demons operating these outfits mix and serve a deadly cocktail of mind-control and God.

This guy was dead serious. My friend said he didn't know whether to laugh or cry, because he knew this guy was absolutely serious in his unquestioning about this belief, and meant every word of it.

[Bluerthanblue]

53. Idolitry... and the breaking of the first and most important

commandment. Not just you- and it's not just bush- many other 'idols' have been held up and revered- all go against the God of the Old Testament.

[donheld]

59. Of course it's idolitry - and the bible beaters should know better

But the very ones who preach the loudest about paganism are the ones doing it. My mother who gets upset if she goes to a chinese restaurant that has a picture or image of Buddha, worships Bushie like he's the most saintly figure alive. How can we wake them from there idol worship?

[mitchum]

54. As long as he says grace before eating that baby on TV...

those idiots will continue to believe so

[xxqqqzme]

57. careful there podner

you're talkin' 'bout my momma, daddy, sisters & brother.

I have no conversations w/ any of them anymore unless it is about the weather or my dad'a bypass surgery.

[marions ghost]

60. "God is in the White House"

remember...? That was the line they fed the Sheeple when Chimpy "won" the election.

People really wish that God would show up on earth again in human form, even though he came once before according to Christanity, as a hippie liberal. These are scary times and people want to be reassured, anesthetized, told everything is OK--Dubby will do that much for them...but he won't do anything else for them. So God sent The Truth Goddess Katrina to blow their minds and wash them clean of false idols.

[kestrel91316]

62. The Christofascists sure treat him like the Second Coming of Christ,

alright. I happen to think (like Pope John Paul II) that he's the Antichrist.

Ye shall know them by their fruits.

[Fescue4u]

63. Yes but many Left wingers think he is Satan

and doesnt take a crap unless its to pollute the environment.

Both extreme just need to realize that hes just a man with many many flaws

[DemGirl7]

65. I've notice this too

All you have to do is watch or listen to any one of those fundie programs and all they do is worship Bush. They seem think that Bush can't do any wrong, and he as prefect as they are, which we all know complete bullshit.

[IN-dem]

66. You are 100% Right n/t

[Freedomfried]

67. Bushbot cultists remind me of the zombies in "Night of the Living Dead"

dangerous to try to reason with, best remedy is to just shoot em in the head.