Touched by a deity
Thursday, 6. October 2005, 23:50:18
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. - Thomas SzaszGeorge Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq'
George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month.
Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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0bvious # 7. October 2005, 00:57
From wikipedia:
"The primary sign of schizophrenia is considered to be fragmentation of basic thought structure and cognition, and the inability to distinguish between internal and external experience.... The term schizophrenia comes from the Greek words σχίζω (schizo, split or divide) and φρενός (phrenos, mind) and can be translated as "shattered mind."" - link
Sounds about right to me...
Of course God's history of talking to people is well documented in that most violent catalogue of genocide and hatred for other humans: The Bible...
"Go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." (1 Sam. 15:3)...
..."He betook himself to slay the women and the children, and thought he did not act therein either barbarously or inhumanly; first, because they were enemies whom he thus treated, and, in the next place, because it was done by the command of God, whom it was dangerous not to obey." (Flavius Josephus, Antiquites Judicae, Book VI, Chapter 7) - link
Problem is after this little 'incident' King Saul (whom recieved the mission to exterminate the Amalekites directly from God) was to be punished for not carrying out his murderous actions to the letter. God showed no mercy on either side of this bloody exchange.
So let's suppose for a minute that Bush truly believes he was ordered(?) by God to carry out his invasions of Afganistan and Iraq. Did he carry out those orders efficiently enough, and if he didn't, is he now quaking under the uniquely Christian fear that his all loving, all forgiving God is going to smite him down like the failure that he is?
Scary to wonder about these things, isn't it... In this supposedly enlightened age could it still be that the fear of God governs the actions of the most powerful empire the world has ever known?
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