Bush - a man of God?

This is the letter I refer to in my "Cultural Cancers" post - please read that post to understand this letter:


Johann Christoph Arnold writes with considerable grace and graciousness. For this he is to be commended. His call to Bush is rightly focused on repentance.

However, the “man of God” claim is mere words. There is only evidence of anything but. A man of God does not routinely deceive, break the law in so many ways, mismanage the environment/creation, disregard the poor, favour the rich, engage in over-the-top militarism, go to war on false claims whilst arrogantly ignoring all the well-informed warnings that it would set off exactly what has turned out to be the case. A man of God is quick to repent and humble of opinion; willing to take seriously the perspectives of others and not insult them with for-or-against extremist rhetoric. A man of God stands for justice rather than supporting the oppressor; whether Zionist or otherwise. A man of God is characterised by the wisdom of peacefulness.

If he was the leader of a country out of favour with the USA, the USA would be rightly calling for him to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Thanks to his blind and ignorant arrogance, hundreds of thousands have died, a whole country has been trashed, thousands have been given cause to join the ranks of those who think violence and terror are perfectly legitimate (because the USA is so at home with violence and terror in its own practice), and virtually nothing at all has been done to address the actual causes of terrorism, or poverty, or injustice, or ……

This is no man of God.
- Graham Chipps (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)