...be sworn in with his hand on a Bible opened to a verse that calls the nation to repentance.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 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.
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.A Masonic bible! (An interesting transcript on a discussion of the Masonic bible is found here.)
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.
Go ahead. Somebody tell me again what a "great christian" George Bush is.
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