George W. Bush: Servant of Satan or Servant of God?

Posted on April 5, 2003 in IRC/Chat Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism Secularism War

False prophets often attract more followers than real ones do.

I had a predictable argument with a young fellow on IRC the other night about the war in Iraq. “I’m glad we have a Christian president,” said big_jizo and I said “We don’t.”

big_jizo is another of those Christians who goes to great lengths to avoid following the teachings of Christ and he even quoted the famous “an eye for an eye” passage in support of the war in Iraq. I observed that Christ was styled as a lamb. How does a lamb fight, I asked? Then I pointed to the Temptation in the Wilderness (here extracted from the Matthew Chapter 4) and bade the self-described Christian to consider what Satan and Christ each represented in that passage:

THEN Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
3 And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,
6 And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,
9 And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me.
10 Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written, The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to him

Consider what George W. Bush, self-professed servant of God (Attilla the Hun called himself the Scourge of God — go figure) has asked Americans to do:

1. He starves the Iraqi people, keeps us out of Iraq, and then proclaims that he is going to feed them because we pacifists “won’t”. (The truth is that he’s set every possible obstacle to prevent us from delivering food to the Iraqi children. We are trying.) Of course, he charges for the food and the water he provides. (Christ, in contrast, advocates giving aid to the poor, the starving, the naked, the sick, and the imprisoned with no expectation of material reward.)
2. He points to those of us who call for a smarter foreign policy approach and says “Stop terrorism. If you’re so good, you can do this.” This is the pinnacle of the temple. “Jump”, he says. “Show us a Miracle.”
3. Finally, he offers Americans rulership of the world — the status of World Peacekeeper — if they will only follow him.

offer? A sword, to be taken against our own consciences. He bids us to “consider the lilies, how they grow.” He warns us not to put stock in worldly things.

George Bush tells us not to worry: we’re right. He pushes our troops into battle as his personal agents of destruction, promising to rid us what has been spawned by similar state violence. And he is rich, very rich, and stands to get richer by this war.

I told big_jizo flat out that George W. Bush was an antichrist, seducing people like him in departing from the way of Christ. (I said in an earlier blog that I felt that I appreciated Christ more by leaving Christianity than by staying in it.) By the example of the Temptation — by looking at what Satan offered and what Jesus refused, we see their true nature. And, as the letter of James suggests, by their works we shall know their followers. George W. Bush makes his satanic discipleship all too clear for anyone who has taken the time to familiarize himself with Christ’s true message.

The real Christian’s slogan for Election 2004: Get thee behind me, George W. Bush. Then we just may see some real angels come out of hiding in America.