Thursday, December 23, 2004

More From the Mis-led

I was reading an article on WND about the Jerusalem Prayer Team. This organization, led by Mike Evans, wants George Bush to
...be sworn in with his hand on a Bible opened to a verse that calls the nation to repentance.
Evans has asked more than 300 national leaders, including James Dobson, T. D. Jakes and Tim LaHaye, to back a petition asking Bush to declare a II Chronicles 7:14 National Day of Prayer, Repentance, and Fasting.
As I read through this theologic and practical silliness (which I don't want to discuss here; that's not the point of this post), I came upon two of the most incredible, revealing paragraphs that I have seen in a long time.
Evans said he is asking Bush to use his family Bible, opened to II Chronicles 7:14, because for his first inauguration in 2001, the president requested the use of George Washington's Masonic Bible.

Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, had used the Washington Bible during his inauguration in 1989. But in 2001, due to a snowstorm, the Bible could not be delivered in time for the ceremony, and the 43rd president was sworn in with a closed family Bible.
A Masonic bible! (An interesting transcript on a discussion of the Masonic bible is found here.)

Go ahead. Somebody tell me again what a "great christian" George Bush is.

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