On the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks:
"Our prayer tonight is that God will see us through and keep us worthy," Bush said. "Hope still lights our way, and the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome it."
In the State of the Union speech:
"There is power -- wonder-working power -- in the goodness and idealism and faith of the American people."
Each of those quotes uses words that describe Jesus Christ instead to describe our country and its war. This is terrible, I believe. The United States is NOT the light in the darkness and the "wonder-working power" in the hymn "There is Power in the Blood" (http://members.tripod.com/~Synergy_2/lyrics/power.html) is not the American people, it is Christ.
To me, it is a far different thing for a vice-presidential candidate to make foolishly hyperbolic campaign remark than for the president of the United States to give major speeches in which he all but says straight out that his political agenda is God's mission and his chosen enemies are demons.
Jesus calls us to be peace-makers, not dividers of the world into "good" nations and "evil-doers."
Nick
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