Why do Republicans think Bush was chosen by God?

[Lostmessage]

I have a next door neighbor who keeps arguing me that Bush was chosen by God to be president and I keep asking her what God? She keeps saying God and we keep going in circles.

I can't stand living by this crazy woman but my lease is not up until may and I am not going to move. She has a flag on her door and she wears flag apparel :puke:.

I am so sick of this right wing nut job and I don't have a come back for her when she says that Bush was selected by God. All I can think of to say to her is which God a Deity God. :grr:

[kalian]

1. Because they're low brows....

and they don't really have RATIONAL THOUGHT.
Its peculiar...democrats NEVER had to state that Bill Clinton had
been "chosen" by god...ever. Interesting, no?

[7th_Sephiroth]

10. an image planted into the minds of the stupid by the BFEE

thats why

[Zero Gravitas]

43. Clinton was elected

Bush wasn't... they say Gawd-uh chose Bush to justify the theft of the election.

[jonnyblitz]

2. Because he told them he was. seriously. n/t

[Disandra]

3. Just tell her...

...Dubya wasn't chosen by Gawd, he was chosen by the Supreme Court.

Of course, when I said this to the religious-wrong nut job, it didn't go over to well, but it did shut them up for about two minutes. It was worth it...all that silence! ;-)

[Lostmessage]

13. She keeps telling me

That she will pray for my soul because I have a Gore sign on my door from the stolen election. She told me me that I was going to hell when I die and I said that there wouldn't be anymore room because it would be too filled with Rush listeners by the time that I died.



:argh:

[flama]

16. Too many Rush listeners?

That person is more than confused.

At least there won't be enough room in Hell for us innocent Democrats. ;-)

[forgethell]

24. There's room in Hell

for everybody. Crowd 'em in like sardines. There's no SC to mandate minimum standards for Hell, don't you know?

[forgethell]

23. Yeah, but

the Supreme Court thinks that it is higher than God. Don't you think?

Down with judicial tyranny!

[Lostmessage]

25. Wait until they die

It will be like that movie Tales from the Hood where they are welcomed to hell by the devil himself.

[beawr]

4. Chosen By God, not the American People.

These are the kind of people that would nuke their own country just to fulfill "god's will."

[dweller]

5. B/C they worship

$$

eom.
dp

[Solly Mack]

6. Besides the obvious?

How odd of God to choose the Shrub
But not as odd as those who claim to love America yet support the Shrub

[Cha]

7. Because they can't handle the thought

that bush is the antichrist.

[GURUving]

8. why?

because, as everyone knows, God speaks through the media. Everything you need to know is on one of the major networks. Do not question. It is easier to simply aquiesce.

God is good. god is love.
Now tell me again why I'm supposed to go kill other people for god?

[Bhaisahab]

9. if that's true...

god has a lot to answer for...

[flama]

17. Amen, Prof. Pot (n/t)

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Becuase they think we are God's chosen nation

and all presidents are chosen by God.

So for them, Clinton was chosen by God, but to punish us for our sins.

Shrub was chosen by God, because he's a godly, forthright man, and God felt that america had learned her lesson so gave us a *good, Christian* leader this time.

Pfagh.

I think they have it completely opposite.

I also believe that god does not interfere in the affairs of people very often; certainly not in the choice of leaders of countries.

Nor does God interfere in the outcome of sports games, even if Favre's father had just died and there was a near-miraculous win by AZ to get the Packers in the play-offs. I also abhor that kind of abuse of God. My hometown newspaper actually headlined the paper with "DIVINE INTERVENTION". Cripes.

[lovedems]

12. They need justification. It's not like they can say "He's so smart"

or "He's a brilliant politician", or "He works so hard". When all else fails, turn to God.

[Lindacooks]

14. Just ask her

why God found it necessary to cheat.

[Lostmessage]

15. Perfect answer

But she will block the cheating part of the answer because she only hears what she wants to hear.

[opihimoimoi]

18. Sorry, nothing you can say or do will change her mind. It was STOLEN

Pubs do Mind Theft just as those religious fruitcakes do.

Very few escape the clutches of the Evil Pub Mind Masters.

Its a waste of time effort.

Go home and drink, its too late.

[Lostmessage]

19. I wanted to mess with her head so

One day I told her that I was a Satan worshiper and that if she didn't get out of my face I would cast a spell on her flag waving butt.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. Because even the devil can quote scripture

[Solly Mack]

22. Oh now, fundies are always telling me that

and I'm only a minor demon...honest.

:loveya:

[FloridaJudy]

21. These folks have a really simple-minded God

They created Him in their own image.

The rest of us have a more complex and intriguing Diety. He/She/It asks that we think, and not just believe. After all, we humans were given enormous brains, and not to use them would be blasphemy.

[TheMightyFavog]

26. Well..

I think it's because that they think that an absolutist monarchy is preferable to a democracy.

Hey, didin't all the absolutist monarchs claim to be chosen by God?

[Lostmessage]

27. Weren't they killed off

One by one?

[NightTrain]

28. Because they're delusional!

The Republicans can believe anything they want, but that doesn't make it fact.

I could believe that I'm a six-foot, muscular hunk with wavy blond hair, but does that mean I really am?

[neebob]

29. Because they want to

I keep having the same fruitless discussion with my mother, who doesn't consider herself a Republican. It's a wingnut thing.

[hellhathnofury]

30. I was discussing this in my AP English class today...

We were discussing the mention of graven images in TS Eliot's "The Hollow Men" and I brought up Pat Robertson's comments.

I think they devil is talking to the personally. I mean why else would they violate the 1st commandment?

[Draven]

31. Well...if it's the Christian God

that chose Dubya, then God must've changed his mind this year. I prayed to Him the other night, and He replied back, and told me that He picked one of the nine Democratic Presidential Candidates to be the next President. :)

[Cleita]

32. Could it be that Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and

Billy Graham told them so? Also, even if Bush is wrong, God ordained it? You couldn't get righter than that now?

[Kamika]

33. Frankly because he talk about God alot

Something our candidates should start doing too. Would seriously win over alot of ppl

[terrya]

34. Because they're assholes. eom

[Cheswick2.0]

35. If he chose the chimp in 2000, then he chose Clinton twice

and what is she going to think of God when he deselects Bush this year? Was God not omnipotent to see what a failure his choice would turn out to be? Ask her why God chose Saddam?
Seriously, you are not going to convince her there is no God. But ask her why God gave us free will if he was going to chose our leaders for us. Tell her you have a Christian associate (me)who says God is not that petty.

[Kamika]

36. no,no,no

It was satan that got him elected :p


(thinks like a reublican

[FDRrocks]

37. Simple, he didn't win 2000, everyone knows it, soooooo...

Religious Right: "God chose Bush" ("Democracy doesn't matter" - implied)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

38. It wasn't the people. They won't admit it was the SCOTUS.

It had to be SOMEBODY!

[Zero Gravitas]

44. Yup

its a justification for the theft of the election, plus they're buying into all this "Great Leader" bullshit the corporate media began spewing after 9/11 so they think isn't it lucky Gawd-uh (acting through the Supreme Court) overturned the election & appointed Jr. to be president.

[gator_in_Ontario]

39. Tell her you agree that Bush was chosen by God...

as the anti-christ!

[Nihil]

40. It's a nice short word

Most of Bush's supporters can't manage long things like "conspiracy",
"corporations" or "Supreme Court".

"God" however is a conveniently short and easily remembered word that
can be put to any number of different uses. Best of all, anyone who
dares to question it is signing their own warrant as an unbeliever, a
godless sinner and a heretic awaiting the purifying fires of Hell.

(Bring your own marshmallows :-) )

Nihil

[banana republican]

41. God chose Bush to be the Antichrist...

eom

[kmla]

42. Then ask her what precinct God is registered in....

... and then ask her if he voted absentee.

See what she says...

[Zero Gravitas]

45. She thinks Scalia is an invisible old man in a night shirt?

how bizzare ;)

46. Man created God in his own image

that's one reason.