By
Larry S. Jones, 8/1/07
The World Can’t Wait Call
states in part that “Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy
where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.” That is increasingly true right now. It would be good to recall that back in 2000,
George W. Bush said: “If this were a dictatorship, it”d be a heck of a
lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”
Reason enough, along with
many others, to DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME, THE WORLD Can’t WAIT!!
To have a president who
believes that he is called by god to carry out what we see as an extremely
dangerous program is only made worse by the fact that he is actually fulfilling
his dictator dream of 2000. On July 17
he issued his Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten
Stabilization Efforts in Iraq, which
gives him the power to seize the property of anyone he designates as even
having innocently donated to a welfare organization he declares is linked to
“terrorism.”
Bush may believe that he is on a divine mission,
but it is clear to us that such actions remind us too much of Hitler in the
early 1930s. Hitler also told the people
that god was on his side.
This self-declared god-appointed president has
placed within his administration scores of “dominionists” like himself. Dominionists are those who believe that the
government should be ruled by their biblical-literalist view of what they
define as god’s laws. He publicly
articulates a more general position, but this is only a cover for his loyalty
to the dominionists, or reconstructionists, as they are sometimes called.
Here‘s
what a major dominionist writer, George Grant wrote: “Christians have an
obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land
for Jesus Christ – to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other
aspect of life and godliness.
“But it is dominion we are
after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest. That’s what Christ has commissioned us to
accomplish.” 1
One of the things these far
right religious fanatics do is divide the world into good and evil, us (the
good) and them (the evil). President Bush,
just as fundamentalist Islamists, has been doing this ever since September 11,
2001. Thinking people don’t want to side
with either of them. Remember last year
when Gen. William Boykin gave speeches in full military regalia across the
country to some 23 evangelical groups declaring that “We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been
raised for such a time as this. [Our] spiritual enemy will on by defeated if we
come against them in the name of Jesus.”
Then Sect. of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld brushed complaints about this by calling on the First Amendment which
guarantees freedom of speech. But that’s
the same Amendment which calls for the
separation of church and state, which Boykin clearly violated. We have to say to these people, You can’t have it
both ways.
People like Bush and his
minions such as Boykin present a clear and present danger to whatever democracy
is left for the masses of people in this country. When Billy Graham’s son, Franklin, Prayed at
Bush’s first inauguration “in the name of Jesus,” he was making it clear that
NOT included in the blessing were Buddhists, Hindus, Moslems, Jews, agnostics,
or atheists. Bush has carried on in that
tradition that people are free to believe as they wish, so long as they don’t
oppose his development of policy based on a theocratic belief system and
carried out of dominionists.
Dr. Dennis Loo said in his
call on this site for the orange campaign that, given the direction of the Bush
regime, there may not even be an election next year. The implications of this should make us all
sit up and think of creative ways to drive out the Bush regime before it’s too
late.
Larry S.
Jones, former United Church of Christ minister, long time political activist,
and supporter of World Can’t Wait
___________
- From The
Changing of the Guard, Biblical Principals for Political Action, pp.
50-51