From Altercation:
GEORGE W. BUSH (with Bill O'Reilly in 2000): "Well, I -- yeah, and I'm not so sure he (Jesus) addressed the death penalty itself in the New Testament. Maybe he did."
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN; CHAPTER 8, VERSES 4-7:They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
One element of the essential C-Plus Augustus that few people dare examine is the possibility that he's as ignorant of his professed Christianity as he of so many other important things in this world. I mean, that is one of the most famous passages in Christ's public ministry. Hell (you should pardon the expression), "casting the first stone" has become a famous secular colloquialism.
I think his Christianity is simply a form he found with which to give structure to what was rapidly becoming a wastrel's life. I think it's a set of exercises -- the way some reformed drunks take to jogging or lifting weights to fill up those long, thirsty hours. I think he has some faith-based palaver that he runs through as though it were calisthenics, the same way he tosses around words like "freedom" and "liberty" when he can't think of anything else to say to explain the hash he's made of things in Iraq.
We've had a year in which John Kerry's fitness to receive communion was a topic of extended debate, but the sincerity of his opponent's religiosity was taken on, well, faith. Here's what I think: I don't think this guy knows enough Scripture -- let alone enough theology -- to throw to a cat. And I can't think of an institution less capable of examining this question than the modern mass media.
Amen, brother.
GEORGE W. BUSH (with Bill O'Reilly in 2000): "Well, I -- yeah, and I'm not so sure he (Jesus) addressed the death penalty itself in the New Testament. Maybe he did."
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN; CHAPTER 8, VERSES 4-7:They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
One element of the essential C-Plus Augustus that few people dare examine is the possibility that he's as ignorant of his professed Christianity as he of so many other important things in this world. I mean, that is one of the most famous passages in Christ's public ministry. Hell (you should pardon the expression), "casting the first stone" has become a famous secular colloquialism.
I think his Christianity is simply a form he found with which to give structure to what was rapidly becoming a wastrel's life. I think it's a set of exercises -- the way some reformed drunks take to jogging or lifting weights to fill up those long, thirsty hours. I think he has some faith-based palaver that he runs through as though it were calisthenics, the same way he tosses around words like "freedom" and "liberty" when he can't think of anything else to say to explain the hash he's made of things in Iraq.
We've had a year in which John Kerry's fitness to receive communion was a topic of extended debate, but the sincerity of his opponent's religiosity was taken on, well, faith. Here's what I think: I don't think this guy knows enough Scripture -- let alone enough theology -- to throw to a cat. And I can't think of an institution less capable of examining this question than the modern mass media.
Amen, brother.
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