Monday, March 24, 2008
Does George know Jesus?
If one will believe the good Vicar of Putney, no he doesn't. Our Dear Embattled Leader's actions have long belied his claims to Christianity but it takes a vicar to contrast those actions to the truth of Christ.
The crucifixion turns this world on its head. For it is the story of a God who deliberately takes the place of the despised and rejected so as to expose the moral degeneracy of a society that purchases its own togetherness at the cost of innocent suffering. The new society he called forth - something he dubbed the kingdom of God - was to be a society without scapegoating, without the blood of the victim. The task of all Christians is to further this kingdom, "on earth as it is in heaven".It can mean that George is telling one more in a very long string of lies.
Yet, for all his years in office, it is hard to think that President Bush has done anything much to make this kingdom more of a reality. Instead he has given us rendition, so-called specialised interrogation procedures, and the blood of many thousand innocent Iraqis. Given all this, what can it possibly mean for George Bush to call himself a Christian?
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