Bush wins

November 4, 2004 Thursday 2:43pm

Bush Wins

No, I didn’t vote for George W. Bush. I voted against him. The candidate for the other side really mattered little. I don’t know of any democrat I wouldn’t have used as a tool to dismantle the current administration.

Yeah, I’m pissed

What really gets me about this last time was all the subterfuge, and how easily most Americans were duped by it. Yes, Bush calls himself a Christian, and yes he is against gay marriage and abortion, but how on earth do those issues affect the common American?

Real issues, like the war in Iraq and no-bid contracts and an impending draft, pale in comparison to the fear Bush Jr. put into the hearts of common Americans who might witness two men kissing or long lines of teenage girls in front of abortion clinics.

The fact is, same-sex marriage is already illegal, so the ‘defense of marriage’ crap that the republican machine was spewing was nonsense. And making abortions illegal with not make abortions go away, you’ll just start hearing about botched back-alley abortions, again, where young girls will die at the hands untrained abortionists in unsterile conditions.

Killer Christian

So Bush calls himself a Christian. Well, I’ve done a little survey

of those I know who voted for Bush, and I asked them, “What makes

George W. Bush a Christian?”

One person told me, “Well, he goes to church.” The rest cited his stance on gay marriage and abortion. I hate to break it to you folks, but those things do not make you a Christian, or all Muslims would be Christians as well, and we know they ain’t Christians, don’t we?

I would define a Christian as one who lives by the words and works of Jesus; one who tries to be Christ-like.

There is the tale of Jesus coming upon the crowd of people preparing to stone a woman. Jesus did not want the woman to die, so he picked up a rock and offered it to the crowd saying, “Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.”

In fact, what Jesus did was to commute the sentence of a woman condemned to die. No one threw a rock at her after that.

Consider this tale: George W. Bush was the governor of Texas for six years. In that time, 152 people were executed by the state of Texas. Bush had 152 opportunities to do what Jesus would have done, which is to prevent them from dieing, and he chose not to, 152 times.

Doesn’t sound very Christ-like, to me.

So, who was it that became president of the United States of America? His words say ‘Christian’ but his actions say something else entirely.