Christians and war make odd bed fellows. Theologians of every Christian stripe basically agree on a few things and one of them is that war is something to be undertaken as a last resort and is to be undertaken with great humility and great sadness. War is not something to be celebrated, glamorized, or idealized even when necessary.
This broad theological consensus on how to view war puts President Bush's recent comment to an Australian leader that "We are kicking ass" into even sharper relief.
Moral and spiritual humility is a grand virtue, especially for a Christian president in the midst of a disastrous war that has cost thousands of American lives and scores of thousands of Iraqi lives; a sloppily run war with countless more people wounded and more than two million Iraqi refugees. The words "kicking ass" are two of the more inappropriate words he could have uttered.
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Pride goeth before the fall...
The problem is that this man has taken us all over the cliff and refuses to acknowledge it.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
This is definitely about pride and having a haughty spirit. Personally, it scares me to think about the amount of destruction that will occur, not to mention what has already occurred!
When will american's finally stand up and say we are NOT going to take this ANYMORE ??? I seen yesterday that one site had 8,611 peolpe making comment's on the hurricne that killed many people in hoduras & nicaragua ,but we can't get that many americna's to step up and protect bush's action's & decision's and get some affordable health care for family's, who work so hard to keep the economic's of this country going, or to stand up about the homeless military vet's & homeless families living in our streets is horrendous in my book !! what has happened to WE THE PEOPLE ????
Bushs' Christianity has always struck me as one of title, not deeds. These little "slips" are like finding a roach in the kitchen - you see one, but there are hundreds more in the walls.
Phil
Of course, the Decider-in-Chief is keeping things in the family.
That is the phrase, if you will recall, President Bush 41 used to describe his vice presidential debate with Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
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