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Bush's 'Theological Perspective'

U. S. presence in Iraq is 'allowing for the inevitable to happen.'

Ted Olsen | posted 8/28/2007 08:43AM

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President Bush once said, "Government can pass law and it can hand out money, but it cannot love." But without love, can it still do good, or can it merely avoid doing evil?

Note: This column ran in the September 2007 issue of Christianity Today. An earlier version of this column ran online in July.

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Previous Tidings columns include:

The Freemasonry Threat | Faint echoes remind evangelicals of a nearly forgotten foe. (July 31,2007)

The Quest for the Historical Jerry | You can tell a lot about someone by what he says about Falwell. (June 13, 2007)

Partial Reversal | The Supreme Court's abortion decision shows that the arguments have changed. (May 14, 2007)

Jingo Jangle | Christian tribalism is a renunciation of God's kingdom. (April 18, 2007)

Church Divorce Done Right | Denominational splits just aren't what they used to be. (Mar. 7, 2007)

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David Cockburn

Posted: September 05, 2007 7:46 AM

Where is the Jesus who was prepared to suffer and die for his beliefs - but not to kill - in this? In shock and awe? Love God, neighbours, and ENEMIES. The whole of Jesus life, death and resurrection was the demonstration of God loving his enemies enough to do what it took to transform enemies firstly into friends, then into family. So do GWB's actions reflect the faith and actions of Jesus? it seems to me that the evidence indicates they do not.

Ohlman

Posted: September 05, 2007 6:47 AM


Thank you for your comments. They reflect ground than that of the other commentators. It's about time that people stop demonizing our President. Marv Beukelman

Daniel

Posted: September 04, 2007 11:45 PM

It is one thing to act out his convictions as a professing christian and to totally disregard the entirety of the biblical principles a Christian should and ought to live on - Love God and to love others. To use democracy and freedom as excuses to war, and sending thousands of innocent soldiers on his own agenda on the pretext of Christian faith and some random quotes from the bible is simply unacceptable. How can this president use one small part of what's required of us from the Scripture and so conveniently neglected the overwhelming majority of the scriptures for his own agenda? Can he by all godly conscience testify that he did not bear false witness to the WMD as the reason for war, or that this war has nothing to do with any plots to control the oil flowing under Iraq or the billions of commercial opportunities that are opened as the result of this war?

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