gwb thinks God has annointed him. Two statements yesterday that prove it.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

These were both from his address and Q & A yesterday at the National Newspaper Association.

His "me" statement:

I believe liberty is universally desired. And I know it's in our interest to help democracy spread. (referencing Iraq, of course)

Followed shortly thereafter by his "God's plan" statement:

I do believe there's an Almighty God that has spread freedom -- making freedom available for everybody.

So, who is doing all this freedom spreading? Well, God is, using his handy dandy right hand guy, gwb himself.

Messianic complex, anyone? :scared: MKJ

on edit, link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060310-2.html

[Fridays Child]

1. I feel sick...

...and it's true. He thinks he's divine.

[Warpy]

5. I feel sicker

...his halfwit followers think he is, too.

[havocmom]

2. Just another example of his refusal to accept responsibility for ANYTHING

Now it's 'God made me do it'.

Only thing worse than a drunk is a dry drunk using God as an addictive substance.

[boobooday]

3. Almighty God spread freedom?

Actually, his version of the Almighty God spread to many areas of the world through imperialist conquerers.

It all just depends on what your definition of freedom is. If you're Orwellian George, it will naturally look a lot like slavery.

His messianic delusions should be giving everyone the willies.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Actually, if I had my druthers...

I'd rather God pass out some food in Darfur, blankets in the mountains of Pakistan, or pick up a hammer in NOLA.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. He likes to throw out statements like this to convince his base

that he really is a Christian, just like them, even though there is nothing about his actions that prove this to be true. In other words, Rove et.al. decided that this help keep the base in line.

[TaleWgnDg]

7. Indeed. "messianic complex" . . . how about a government

.

Indeed. "messianic complex" . . . how about a government of one, i.e., a dictatorship together with a messianic complex?

For example, here's retired SCOTUS Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's take on neo-con George and Company:

"But, (Justice O'Connor . . . said about congress ), if we don’t make them mad some of the time we probably aren’t doing our jobs as judges, and our effectiveness, she said, is premised on the notion that we won’t be subject to retaliation for our judicial acts. The nation’s founders wrote repeatedly, she said, that without an independent judiciary to protect individual rights from the other branches of government those rights and privileges would amount to nothing. But, said O’Connor, as the founding fathers knew statutes and constitutions don’t protect judicial independence, people do."

"It gets worse, . . . said (Justice Sandra Day O'Connor), noting that death threats against judges are increasing. It doesn’t help, she said, when a high-profile senator (U.S. Senator John Cornyn, Texas) suggests there may be a connection between violence against judges and decisions that the senator disagrees with."

"I, said (Justice) O’Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."

(bold-faced type emphasis added by TaleWgnDg)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5255712
(as visited Saturday, March 11, 2006)

http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ME&showDate=10-Mar-2006&segNum=5&NPRMediaPref=WM&getAd=1 (MicrosoftMediaPlayer, 3:17 minutes, O’Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts, NPR, Morning Edition, Friday, March 10, 2006, Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs, correspondent)

http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ME&showDate=10-Mar-2006&segNum=5&NPRMediaPref=RM&getAd=1 (RealPlayer, 3:17 minutes, O’Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts, NPR, Morning Edition, Friday, March 10, 2006, Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs, correspondent)

King George, The Christian

.

[Warchild]

8. He's just flapping his lips cuz he digs the breeze...

that twitching little scuzzball hasn't the intellectual capacity to generate any faith or the understanding of it.


He just references the "God" word, cuz Rove told him it lights up the Jesus freaks.....ot as they like to call themselves, "his base"

Yeah, Bush, he digs God. He's one of us!

[laheina]

25. Well, when all of the facts go against you,

go to the group that ignores all the facts.

He's in deep doodie these days.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. I've read the bible a few times over the years... and I don't recall

the words "freedom" or 'democracy' in there at all. :shrug:

as a matter of fact, they owned slaves right?

[lovuian]

10. I don't think he's talking about the same God as us...

and yes he wants to make himself as a saintly man in a quest for freedom... when he is a morally sterile man whose god is money and greed...

[sam sarrha]

11. i hated that anointing Bull Shit in the Free HollyAss Pentecostal Church

when i was a kid..

[sam sarrha]

12. this has got to really piss of the other followers of another false god

[Disturbed]

13. The OT God was a Brutal Dictator.

Old Testament


Slave Quotes

Psalm 123:2
As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy.

Ephesians 6:5
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

Ephesians 6:9
And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Colossians 3:22
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.

Colossians 4:1
Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

1 Timothy 6:1
All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered.

Titus 2:9
Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,

1 Peter 2:18
Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

[believerinchrist]

14. One very important thing to remember in quoting these verses

is that the writers were talking about societies where slavery already existed. The New Testament verses were written to new believers in Christ in countries where there had not been an understanding of God at all. I guess you might say the writers were accomodating the accepted societal value systems and encouraging people to look for God in their circumstances. It is also important to understand that many of those new Christians suffered greatly for their faith and that may have influenced some of what they wrote about slavery. Also, I would be willing to bet that the Bible has played a big part of the turning away from slavery found in many societies through the years.

[immoderate]

17. Bush has his delusions. You've got yours.

Bible was around for a few thousand years and had no effect on slavery. Industrial revolution, age of enlightenment coincided with the end of that type of slavery. However, slavery in other forms continues to this day. It is propagated by people who think of themselves as religious.

--IMM

[Swamp Rat]

33. LOL!

Yeah you rite!

[tlsmith1963]

15. Yes...

Bush has a messianic complex. Someone needs to set him straight. Hey, Bush, you're just an ordinary guy who became President because of your family connections. You have no talent of your own, & you are incredibly dumb. If you weren't from the Bush family, you would be working at Mc Donald's. And if there is a God, I doubt he would pick someone as stupid as you to do his work.

There--I said it.:evilgrin:

Tammy

[believerinchrist]

16. What Bush doesn't understand is the freedom that God

has for people comes with truth--Jesus said "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." Any freedom that is based on deception is not true freedom, and it can evaporate rapidly leaving people worse off than they were before. The freedom God is talking about is not a political freedom--Jesus also said "My kingdom is not of this world." The freedom God is talking about takes place in the hearts of humans and leads to freedom from evil. We have not yet seen the fullness of true freedom. America's democracy is wonderful, but it is a mere shadow of the freedom that is to found in the completed manifestation of the love of God.

BTW, I believe that it is okay for a Christian to be involved in politics if he/she wants to, but that his/her faith should be the underpining of their political work, not the focus of it. For example, my faith makes me a better teacher, but I don't talk about my faith in the classroom--I try to live it.

[Wafture]

18. Jesus would like to respond ...

[laheina]

26. Awesome. :) nt

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

28. LOL, nice :) n/t

MKJ

[Neil Lisst]

19. translation: God is using me to spread freedom through war

[Deja Q]

20. HOW does he define "freedom"?

Selectively crimping and overriding Constitutional guarantees is hardly spreading freedom. It's removing it...

[jbnow]

23. Silly Hypnotoad

He's spreading freedom there so we don't have to have it here.

[laheina]

27. Bwah ha ha !!

That puts a whole new spin on his "fighting terra abroad" tag-line. :)

[Booster]

21. "I didn't want to invade Iraq; God made me do it."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. I was in a mall bookstore this afternoon

and they had a book on display with a title something like The Faith of a President, and it had Guess Who's face on the front.

The subtitle was something like, "How George W. Bush's faith guides him in leading the nation."

I couldn't bear to keep looking.

[helderheid]

24. this thread needs serious recommending

[spacelady]

29. When I hear * bloviate about "spreadin' freedom" I can't help but

picture those manure spreading bio-fertilizer trucks that spew sewage over the fields.

[alfredo]

30. He also calls it "my government." I think he has never really grasped

the job description. Maybe he fell asleep during orientation.

[Tinksrival]

31. OK...I just have to ask.........

On DU a while back I read some threads on a group that holds prayer groups and recruits upcoming republican politicians. They have sabbaticals in which they play basketball (for Jesus?) I remember reading about the group and reaching for my tin foil. It read very cult like. I thought I remember reading that this group held "prayer groups" in the mornings at the Whitehouse and the senate. It seems this would explain alot if any of it were true. G.W. strikes me as a stupid and gullible shell of a man whom would be susceptible to a cult like religious group filling his empty head with all kinds of "Gods word".

Anybody know what this group is?

I totally freaked when I read up on it. Had some big names and heavy hitters in the group but for the life of me I can't remember the names to google.

[Tinksrival]

32. Hey I found it! The "family"

http://www.alternet.org/story/16167

[Swamp Rat]

34. More like a 'maniac complex'

[Raydawg1234]

35. good old GWB spreading the freedom to start a civil war.

[cassiepriam]

36. Will someone PLEASE increase this man's meds, he is still psychotic.

[Wafture]

37. Pick One

[Wafture]

38. How freeps see him ...

[newspeak]

39. so using words like "freedom" and "liberty"

makes it so---what kind of freedom and liberty? Is freedom like freeing a dove out of a cage, then shooting it? Or the freedom to choose life or death? Believe the way I do or I'll set you free. And liberty must be the new word for liberating a person from employment or those responsibilities of putting food on the table, supporting your family---see how liberating? Don't have to worry about the wellbeing of your family, your country or your infrastructure. We've liberated you away from those horrendous responsibilities--now just do what we say and enjoy the freedom and liberty we have bestowed upon you.