I just saw a clip of a segment with Charlie Rose and Karl Rove in which Mr. Rove stated some unbelievable items. I just have to wonder what parallel universe Karl is in. Does he think everyone is asleep? Do you remember what was going on five years ago this fall?
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Stark contrast
Today, on Fox News Sunday, George Herbert Walker Bush appeared with Chris Wallace in a segment that really speaks for itself. The senior Mr. Bush gets emotional in discussing the treatment afforded captured Iraqis by U.S. soldiers in 1991. I thought back then that President Bush ’41 showed remarkable restraint in going to war. He really did use military force as the last option. I remember how emotional he became on many occasions when interviewed by the media. Unlike his son and many of today’s war hawks President Bush ’41 actually was in harms way and was very unwilling to put other men and women in the same predicament. I wish his son would have shown the same restraint five years ago.
So unlike your Christ
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.–Gandhi
Earlier in the week I wrote about an archbishop’s decision to withhold a sacramental rite from a politician got me to thinking again about some of the apparent contradictions between the prophetic church and the pathetic church. Continue reading “So unlike your Christ”