My last post yesterday put me in a somber mood, and one which raises my level of frustration/disgust with what such easy prey the evangelical Church in America was for the PR machine (which included the Right-Wing’s disgusting appropriation of theological language, so that their identification with that part of their “base”; the Christian Right, would be ensured).

Rove talked about how we have this “long road ahead of us but we will prevail”

September 11 changed the nature of war forever. We can go to the American people on winning this war because they trust the Republican party on doing a better job of protecting and strengthening America’s military might , and therebyu protecting America”

James Moore , Author of Bush’s Brain (there is a book from which this DVD was based):

He had taken Septemebr 11 and turned it into a marketing device; He had said ‘It was something we could “run on”‘; that it was something VALUABLE for the Republican party”

Bush often remarked “I’m a War President”. Apparently, he is. Apparently, he needs that ‘image” to bolster his prestige. Apparently, it worked. Apparently, our society values Rambo over Jesus, Might over Right, and Violence as a Major Means of establishing our ‘rightful place”. But, it seems that the BIBLICAL notion of the Kingdom of God is very different.

You have plowed iniquity, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots and in the multitude of your warriors, therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people. . .” (Hos. 10:13-14).

echoed also by

Some trust in chariots, some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God…..Psalms 20:7