God Runs My Foreign Policy

Clearly we have a bunch of terrorists running around doing what they do because they believe "God" commanded them to do it.

It seems to me that claiming "God told me to" is a great antidote for "the buck stops here"!

I think he has responded with an honest answer. Certainly, our foreign policy is not based on intelligence.

And the voices, most likely a malfunctioning ipod. Or is it an igod?

iGod! LOL. Actually that would be Dick Cheney.

echo bill and carl. yikes!!

Biblical foreign policy
I am without the ability to comment on this
Religious free zone I am

Thanks for the post Sean, I think, but than any explanation . . .

Sandy was here.

Nothing else I have to say on this topic would be appropriate.

....when a bible becomes a weopon to hurt with, it`s user has gone mad......

Sean-Paul, forgive me for dissenting, but what I just read were words like "think," "believe," "and believe, "again . . . Seems to be quite foundational for any politician, or anyone else for that matter. Ummm if you "believe" in God, don't you think He'd want people to be free?

The article is titled, God shapes . . . did NOT say anywhere that God runs it. I think that is a mischaracterization, and whether Dem/Rep . . . . that kind of rhetoric kind of inflames. Maybe it is just me, who knows. To me the shaping of policy can come from anywhere and everywere. The decisions come from men and women. Where am I wrong? Thanks?

Ernie, when the voice of God becomes that which animates the policy of man, man can justify any deed, no matter how wretched, horrid or incompetent.

That's fact.

Look at the 30 years war. Look at the Inquisition. Look at Darfur. All in the name of God. If you don't think it can't happen here, well, it can.

We had a thing called the 'enlightenment' a few centuries ago that I believed had settled the question of God in western politics.

I guess the enlightenment was too French.

Ernie, when people believe that they're acting on divine mandate, as Bush has suggested on other occasions, they become difficult to reach by reason and logic. Or facts. Bush has shown himself to be so impervious to argument and disagreement that frankly, a distorted religious motive is one of the least bad possible explanations.

The voices in his head were Rove's walky-talky instructions. We've heard Bush lately ad-libbing, and it's ugly for different reasons!

No one wanted Bush to be a good president (not even 'great'--good would've been ok) for America any more than I did, though I didn't vote for the faker. I had a bad feeling about him as a lot of people did--and sometimes you just don't want to be righ--correct.

As a reluctant astrologer, I had studied his chart in 1999--and I said, God help us. Now according to Bush He's helping him, but if so, why do I feel adrift in a sea of Constitution-undermining, rights-invading, corruption- exalting, and pocket-lining?

And whose pocket would Jesus be lining? His kingdom was not of this world, but Bush is wallowing in his own earthly kingdom at the people's expense, with our borders dissolving and secret laws passing in the dark of night.

And the cheeky monkey pretends there's nothing wrong with this picture!!

Look at what terrorists do! They run around killing people saying that God intended it! It makes me sick!

Building off of the author's most recent point, it is not just that the armies of god (European, Islamic or otherwise) are responsible for great acts of inhumanity. The same, of course, can be said of secular governments. The real issue is that the religionist embraces an ethic of belief which defies testing. Whatever he or she declares, as a believer, cannot be questioned; their god cannot be put to the test.

Whatever we might say of the communists or fascists programs of the 20th century, their economic and political models were not so opaque.