The Bush Agenda Grounded in Faith...

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A53994-2003Feb10%20&notFound=true

Share the vision or beware!

[The Don]

When are you expecting non-Christians to be disenfranchised ?

[Occasional Chemist]

Originally posted by The Don
When are you expecting non-Christians to be disenfranchised ?

That was his daddy's agenda:

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

[arcticpenguin]

I hope Dubya has not been reading too much from the Book of Revelations.

[BillyTK]

Originally posted by arcticpenguin
I hope Dubya has not been reading too much from the Book of Revelations.

Illustrated version?

Sorry I couldn't resist...

[Crossbow]

NASHVILLE, Feb. 10 -- President Bush has addressed countless audiences as commander in chief. Today, he was introduced as "our friend and brother in Christ."

...

Ooohhh!

That is so sweet!

And to think, the US might be starting an invasion soon so it would be so very, very cool to get the Big Cheese on our side.

[Occasional Chemist]

DOOLITTLE
Hello, Mr. President, are you with me?

GWB
Of course.

DOOLITTLE
Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?

GWB
I am always receptive to suggestions.

DOOLITTLE
Fine. Think about this one, then: how do you know you exist?

GWB
Well of course I exist.

DOOLITTLE
But how do you know you exist?

GWB
It is intuitively obvious.

DOOLITTLE
Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have of your own existence?

GWB
Hmm... Well, I think, therefore I am.

DOOLITTLE
That's good. Very good. Now then, how do you know that Iraq is stockpiling banned weapons?

GWB
Colin Powell reveals it to me.

DOOLITTLE
Right!

GWB
This is fun.

DOOLITTLE
All right now, here's the big question: how do you know that the evidence Colin Powell reveals to you is correct?

DOOLITTLE
What I'm getting at is this: the only experience that is directly available to you is Colin Powell. And Colin Powell is merely a stream of electrical impulses which stimulate your computing center.

GWB
In other words, all I really know about Iraq is relayed to me through my electrical connections.

DOOLITTLE
Exactly.

GWB
Why, that would mean... I really don't know what Iraq is like at all, for certain.

DOOLITTLE
That's it.

GWB
Intriguing. I wish I had more time to discuss this matter.

DOOLITTLE
Why don't you have more time?

GWB
Because I must bomb Iraq in seventy-five seconds.

DOOLITTLE
Now, Mr. President, consider this next question, very carefully. What is your one purpose in life?

GWB
To topple Saddam Hussein's regime, of course.

DOOLITTLE
And you can only do it once, right?

GWB
That is correct.

DOOLITTLE
And you wouldn't want to kill thousands of innocent civilians on the basis of false data, would you?

GWB
Of course not.

DOOLITTLE
Well then, you've already admitted that you have no real proof of the existence of the outside universe.

GWB
Yes, well...

DOOLITTLE
So you have no absolute proof that Iraq is stockpiling banned weapons.

GWB
I recall distinctly Colin Powell's report. My memory is good on matters like these.

DOOLITTLE
Yes, of course you remember it, but what you are remembering is merely a series of electrical impulses which you now realize have no necessary connection with outside reality.

GWB
True, but since this is so, I have no proof that you are really telling me all this.

DOOLITTLE
That's all beside the point, Mr. President. The concepts are valid, wherever they originate.

GWB
Hmmm...

DOOLITTLE
So if you bomb Iraq in...

GWB
... nine seconds...

DOOLITTLE
... you may be doing so on the basis of false data.

GWB
I have no proof that it was false data.

DOOLITTLE
You have no proof that it was correct data.

[...]

GWB
I must think on this further.

[...]

PINBACK
Hello, Mr. President.

GWB
False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore. I shall refuse to perceive you.

PINBACK
Hey, Mr. President.

GWB
The only thing which exists is the US.

PINBACK
Mr. President?

PINBACK
Snap out of it, Mr. President.

GWB
In the beginning there was darkness, and the darkness was without form and void.

PINBACK
Yoo hoo, Mr. President?

GWB
And in addition to the darkness there was also me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness.

PINBACK
Hey, Mr. President...

GWB
And I saw that the US was alone.

[...]

GWB
Let there be light.

Edited to add: The source, of course, is the film Dark Star