Bush talks about religion, tones it down

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Originally posted by jaguar
If i was living in america today, i would be very, very scared. This guy has absolutely no idea about diplomacy(missle shield, koyoto, NATO etc) and is merely a puppet for convtive forces, if cherny kicks the bucket there gonna be huge problems, and i mean huge.

Up to now, most don't realize how many bad decisions were made so quickly. From snubbing the German Chancellor. To encouraging the Isrealis to massacre Palestinians (which has the current Norwegian foreign minister so mad), to reviving tensions in Korea, to having Canada walk out of NORAD. To ignoring the Balkans which is right at the crisis point - this is the time that everything will work or fall apart.

Sadat of Egypt was in a hurry to meet with George Jr because he had to find out where this guy was coming from - so a radical change from Clinton who worked so well with everyone in the world.

Suddenly the new president has a new religion - environmentalism. After irrational, politically motivated, and not based on any science advisors - a decision to leave arsenic excessively high in western drinking water and to violate known science on Greenhouse gasses - suddenly the president hears gods rumbling. Suddenly he gets religion - reverses his arsenic decision declaring political half truths so that he does not have to admit he knew nothing about a subject he made decisions about.

Its a good thing that Colin Powell was there for the China crisis because the religious right moralists (Ashcroft, et al) would have us at war with China now over an airplane. That is why early White House statements only aggrevated the situation before Colin Powell could stop the religious extremist footstomping.

Religion is historically the source of the most destructive and deadly wars in the history of mankind. It is just what we don't want in political leaders.

The enemy of religion is scientific knowledge and logical thought. To appreciate that, study great Greek philosophers of the Socrates period - and how they destroyed Greek gods by just thinking logically.

Clinton's first two years were also very rocky. However Clinton did not alienate so many so quickly. But then George Jr's strongest support comes not from the center - but from people who would force their morals down everyone's throat.

Remember this line from a moral supporter of George Jr - "a man who marries outside his religion inherits the devil for a father-in-law". That advocates hate. That is a quote from the mouth of a right wing, Republican, religious leader - one of the George Jr supporters - and a primary example of why religion and religious leaders are so dangerous in politics.