Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, indeed, but isn't the US supposed to be a constitutionally secular society (and hooray for that)? You can't refer to God in a primary school but, hell, it's okay for the President to use religion as a justification for war? Something's a little out of kilter there I think. You might also have thought that given all the Al-Quaida rhetoric about this being some kind of neo-crusade it would have made sense to de-emphasize some the religious conviction stuff during the megaphone diplomacy phase at least. But apparently not. Quite what Islamic radicals will make of what is clearly going to be an occupation of an Arab state by an invading Christian force is enough to give me the heebie-jeebies. I am curious as to exactly WHICH God is on Bush's side, since in England the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster seem to have an altogether different view of the matter, as do the African-American religious leaders who are in Baghdad right now. An appeal to a metaphysical authority is not an argument. If Bush said "I believe we are right" then I could respect him. JB On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 11:31 AM, Douglas Herr wrote: >> an examination of leaders who believe that God was on their >> side would reveal he is in some dubious company. > > I suspect that in time of conflict nearly any political leader will > justify his/her actions to a nervous population by claiming moral > righteousness in whatever way is common in his culture. I'm not > condoning these claims, but it's not unusual. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html