President outlines role of his faith
President outlines role of his faith

President Bush said yesterday that he doesn't "see how you can be president without a relationship with the Lord..."

"I think people attack me because they are fearful that I will then say that you're not equally as patriotic if you're not a religious person"

Can someone tell me how these two statements fit together? No GOD no president... but that doesn't mean you aren't patriotic? The president feels comfortable alienating large parts of the country that don't believe in God, or don't believe in HIS god, and yet he doesn't even attend church.

Why do I bring up the no church thing? Well the President claims to strongly believe in "Faith Based Organizations" (churches). So much so that he has "funneled "about $1.2 billion" (OF YOUR MONEY) to religious groups so far." Additionally:

"What we are going to do in the second term is to make sure that the grant money is available for faith communities to bid on, to make sure these faith-based offices are staffed and open," Mr. Bush said. "But the key thing is, is that we do have the capacity to allow faith programs to access enormous sums of social service money, which I think is important."

And yet on a personal level he can't even take the time to attend. Interesting.

- posted by Anonymous @ Friday, January 14, 2005