Has anyone told you Bush was chosen by God?

[ButterflyBlood]

This is apparentely something fundies use to justify his lack of being elected, he wasn't elected, but chosen by God. I'd be interested in seeing their evidence.

However, I have thankfully yet to meet a single person spewing anything resembling this idiocy. But then again I don't live in the Bible Belt.

[Fenris]

1. No, however Bush told Paul Martin he believes he was chosen by G-d

:scared::nuke:

[Catch22Dem]

2. No

I'm afraid that would result in 2 hits; me hittin' them, and them hittin' the floor. HAHAHAHAHA

[lovedems]

12. LOL! I like that one! n/t

[Catch22Dem]

23. Thanks

I stole it. :) It was from The Breakfast Club

[tom_paine]

3. No, if they did I guarantee a bellicose barrage of fact and derision

in response.

And of course, "So how is that different than a Sucidie Bomber saying God chose Bin Laden?"

is always a good reply.

THAT should make the smoke come out of their programmed automaton's ears!

"That does not compute, that does not compute!" ZZT!

[cubsfan6969]

8. Mel

[Sophree]

22. Or it can also mean that God chose Clinton.

:D That would have almost the same effect, methinks.

In a way, I understand this religious view- to a point. I believe that all this is part of God's plan- that we were meant to go through this as a nation. The lesson is there, although I'm not exactly sure what it is and I'm as upset as anyone else by the state of our democracy. And just to clarify, that does NOT mean that I, or many other Christians, believe that God approves of *. There is a distinction there.

[sleipnir]

4. No, but I've heard that Kerry is the Second Comming

So vote for Kerry! Why not, if some tells you to, you should do what they say.

Don't question anything, just vote for Kerry!

[lancdem]

19. But nobody ever said he was God's chosen one

Big difference.

[flakey_foont]

5. No, but

2 billion people on the planet and this is the best God can come up with? methinks not!

[wuushew]

6. There is no inconsistency

Antonin Scalia = God

God appoints * POTUS

[Homer12]

7. My brother new a Born Again who did

Not surprisenly she was also anti-semetic and hated muslims; thought Judaism and Muslims whorshiped satan.

[cubsfan6969]

9. Mel Gibson thinks he's Jesus

[cubsfan6969]

11. I think Satan gets a bad rap

[Fenris]

15. So Jesus worshipped Satan?

:shrug:

[ChickMagic]

10. Yup

I have had fundie coworkers tell me that God had his hand in the election. I always ask, "So Scalia is God?" They always look at me like a German Shepard trying to absorb calculus.

[MASSAFRA]

13. No one yet

One person thought that we had to kill Muslims before they kill us, because he read the Koran. Just another mis-use of religion.

[MissMarple]

14. It sounds a lot like the old "Divine Right of Kings" and l'Etat ce mois.

God likes him so he can do no wrong. That just throws the Constitution out the window along with centuries of liberal political thought. I'm hearing grave spinning.

[flakey_foont]

17. I believed it's mentioned in the Bible...

right after the part that explains that Paul is dead

[WolverineDG]

24. Someone needs to brush up

on their history then & find out what happened to the last few monarchs who strutted claiming "divine right of kings" & stuff like that....

:think:

DG

[diamond14]

16. yes, many fundies here in Virginia have told me exactly that....

since I ride the Metro train that goes past the pentagon....I've heard it from a wide-ranging diverse group of religiously-insane people, including soldiers, military officers, scientists, and other Federal and Federal-contracting personnel....it's really frightening...and very difficult to respond to....mostly, I just get up and move to a different seat on the Metro-Train...or get off and wait for the next train...


many people who participate in shrub's KILLING CAMPAIGN are real dissociated from reality and on heavy prescription drugs....you can hear the pill bottles snap during the early morning train ride...and those in my Church have a difficult time making the old commandment work "THOU SHALL NOT KILL", when they make a living out of KILLING innocent women and children....and somewhere in their subconscious, they are truly aware that their pentagon work is really contributing to the KILLING....

[DrWeird]

18. I hope somebody does.

Because then I can tell them that's just what they say about Osama bin Laden.

[Justitia]

20. yup, my invisible friend -eom

[no_arbusto]

21. Yes

A friend and I tag-teamed some fundies in LTTE in our local paper about a year ago. We both received the "Bush was chosen by God" responses to our letters and then our responses to those responses were not printed in the local rightwing rag. Go figure. We've both since left town and have established ourselves in our respective communities. I'm not usually one to gloat but, in this instance, I think it's warranted.

[mike1963]

25. No, but if they do I'll say "No way. God isn't an asshole."

:evilgrin:

[snippy]

26. Bush tells people this all the time.

Bush has told friends, foreign leaders and members of his Cabinet that Bush was chosen by his god to be president so that Bush would be in charge when 9/11 took place. Bush claims that his god told him to "go after" (I think he meant "smite") Osama and Saddam.

My favorite Bush quote on this was from the Aqaba summit when Bush also said that his god wanted him to work on peace in the Middle East but only if it did not interfere with Bush's 2004 election campaign. Like Bush himself, Bush's god apparently has some fucked up values.

[Old and In the Way]

27. Someone inferre that to me once......more like a man chosen to

lead us in these trying times BS.

But I said that if God chose Dimson, he has a wicked sense of humor.

[Cat Atomic]

28. A guy told me- now get this- I'm serious:

"All leaders are annointed by God. We have the responsibility to trust them. We should not question them."

I kid you not- he said "we should not question them".

I asked him if Clinton was annointed by God, and he paused for a second and said, "no".

I told him it must be nice to know exactly what God thinks.

*edit* for multiple typos

[Sophree]

32. I thought that would be the response!

lol- Bush was annointed by God and Clinton wasn't- I wonder if they even see the irony.

I was also just reminded of that B*sh appearance last week at Central Dauphin High School. You guys probably talked about it- he was standing right under the word "Dauphin" as he was speaking. Was this intentional? Doesn't "dauphin" have a negative connotation???? I thought it referred to a self- important person who BELIEVES himself to be appointed by God. :shrug:

[Cat Atomic]

33. Dauphin? lmao- it's even worse than that.

It's a French word for the eldest son of the King... the inheritor of the throne. Pretty f'ing appropriate, though not very democratic. :P

I'd LOVE to have that picture if someone here has it. :D

[Sophree]

34. I'll say.

"Pretty f'ing appropriate"

And I second that- if anyone here has that picture.

[laruemtt]

29. Yes! it was a doctor i did

transcription for. she was THE most disorganized person i've ever worked with. she tried to explain to me after 9/11 how god had chosen * to lead the world through the darkness and what a tremendous solemn honor it was for him that god chose him. i tell you the truth - a medical doctor! be afraid...be very afraid......

[pop goes the weasel]

30. my brother

We avoid talking politics. And religion. In fact, we pretty much avoid talking to each other at all.

[Darranar]

31. No, I suppose I'm lucky.

[leesa]

35. Yes, several people have said that to me both directly and in a cagey

way, " I belive the leader of this country was chosen by God" When you remind these folks (two of whom were my brothers) of the heaps of disrespect they had heaped on the last leader presumably also chosen by God, the subject quickly changes. They are members of the GOP Fundies fake christian hate church.

[markus]

36. Then tell them god has chosen us to take him out

and give them the stare for a count of ten.

Then tell them She's really pissed at how he's f--ked the job up.

[Solomon]

37. Yes. Not directly chosen by God, but a part of God's plan. All

earthly authority is by divine appointment. This issue is the cause of a current blow-up between me and my fundy family.

They are very very confused because their pastor preaches that Bush is like David, who God told to go and smite the elamites, or some other, because the elamites were dissing the samorites or some such.

They say God works in mysterious ways, his wondrous works to perform.

There are a lot of spooked people in this country.

[rhino47]

38. That was a big turning point for a few repub friends of mine

Especially my hubby.He thought it was blasphemous to claim
to be appointed by god.This was voiced also by other christian
republican friends.

[stevedeshazer]

39. Yes.

Heard it in a restaurant recently, from a nearby table.

It's repeated, or at least inferred, on right-wing hate radio often.

[drdigi420]

40. evidence? fundies dont need evidence

they have 'faith'

they'll ignore piles of evidence if it doesnt support their 'faith'