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Originally Posted by jaguar
Bush has a fairly extreme view, at least compared to most christians I know. When people start talking about the will of god, the path of god or think they are in any way assisted by god to their position it's time to start worrying. The guy bought in ashcroft for crying out loud, he's expanded government funding of faith based charities.
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Both groups are dipshits, both groups are fairly small, both groups are warped views of their religion. Neither is better than the other.
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i think the difficulty here is that when you say bush has an extreme view you are comparing him to everyone who calls themelves a christian. for a lot of people that simply means "yeah, when i grew up we went to the local church on christmas and easter."
Bush claims to be an active christian, it is an integral part of his everyday life.
when he is compared with other practicing christians; those that actually have a very personal, christ-based faith - he is not an extremist as you assert. i don't see any evidence to indicate that these individuals are out promoting death to all muslims, gays, abortion doctors, or anything like that.
what you are trying to lump bush in with is more similar to a cult. like the branch davidians, or the nut jobs that TS provided the link for. they have taken an idea or a few sentences from the bible and built an entirely new faith from it. that is similar to the wahabbi strain of islam.
to throw evangelical christians into the same bag is pretty ridiculous.
so to answer you Jag - yeah, one is better than the other. the group that doesn't advocate mass extermination of anyone who disagrees wins in my book.