Doing The Right Thing?

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Bush's defence of his invasion and killings in Iraq, that he was "doing the right thing" was in essence the same as that of Paul Hill, the pro-life preacher terminated last night in Florida for murdering an abortionist doctor.

How ironic, then, that it was his brother Jeb, who dismissed the defence as "hogwash".

The same messianic vision of a better society (a total mirage in Iraq as in America under Bush). The same righteous faith in his avenging role. The same conviction that the deaths of others are worthy in his cause. Some might think zealot land-grabber George (White House, Afghanistan, Iraq) is in need of an urgent macrocephalectomy (a new addition to the language?).

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What's occurred to me, re Hill, is how he believes he was doing God's will when he shot the doctor and his escort. And welcomed death and believed he would go to heaven as a result. What group do we know of who believes in that kind of theology?

As for "doing the right thing," who among us doesn't think he or she isn't "doing the right thing"? What kind of justification is that for anything?

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The Bush "doing the right thing" and "supported by God" is extremly troublesome, especially with his two slips of the tongue with the word crusade. He always seems tongue-tied anyway, why not tie up his tongue like a pretzel?

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D'artagnan wrote:

What's occurred to me, re Hill, is how he believes he was doing God's will when he shot the doctor and his escort. And welcomed death and believed he would go to heaven as a result. What group do we know of who believes in that kind of theology?

Several:
First Century Sicarri in Palestine
12th Century Hasshishim Islam
12th-17th Century Catholicism
16th and 17th Century Anabaptists
20th and 21st Century Radical Islam
2oth and 21st Century Evangelical Christianity.
Sad

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The world needs fewer people doing "God's" will.

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Certainly fewer people appointing themselves as the oficial translators of God's Will.

The Ten Commandments tablet down south - this was the decision of one man to decide on something that wasn't his. It's sort of ironic that he should have chosen a totem sacred to the Hebrews, whose major commandment is "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

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And Bush never said a word.

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He wouldn't dare. The True Believers are among his core supporters. If he loses them, he can kiss 2004 goodbye...

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I've just started reading a terrific bio of John Wesley Powell -- The River Runs West. It reminded me that the fundamentalists who came to this country from the west of England were of a very different stripe: against the slaughter and ill treatment of the Indians, often pacifists, etc. etc. Very ramrod backed, courageous people, unlike the puff-lipped and coiffed fancies of our day.

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I often marvel at those "puff-lipped and coiffed" characters on fundamentalist TV channels. I was never in this particular loop, but when did this become the appropriate look for religious folk?

That one with all the grey hair looks like a nighmare image of the Whore of Babylon...

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I think they have a serious case of Mary Kay envy. Rolling Eyes

In all seriousness, I think it is overcompensation to try and apear "normal" and "wealthy." Instead they become grotesques. The mix of southern prom queen and new money vulgar leades to the Stepford Harridan look.