Last week, I wrote about how the GOP's secret bride, the Religious Right, will be shuffled into the broom closet during next week’s Republican National Convention. And lest you think this is a case of leftist 'religion bashing,' consider this: The National Council of Churches, which represents the country's Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians and 32 other denominations, has, against all tradition, been brushed aside by this President, while evangelicals have enjoyed unparalleled access.
'Bush has shown an ideological commitment to the literalist Christian tradition at the expense of the broader view of the larger religious community,' National Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Bob Edgar told Salon.com, which is just a nice way of saying that the girl next door has been dumped for Tammy Faye Baker. 'He is the first president not to meet with the leadership of mainline Christian traditions since George Washington. We've been able to talk with the prime minister of Britain and the chancellor of Germany, but not our own president.'
The Reverend Fritz Ritsch also questioned this historic snub. 'The president apparently believes that he can talk about theology from the bully pulpit without talking to theologians,' Ritsch wrote in the Washington Post. 'Which begs the question: When did the president become theologian in chief?'
'I trust God speaks through me,' George Bush reportedly told a gathering in Lancaster, PA."
A laundry list of all the reasons we need to be concerned about Bush's theology and the people who benefit from his term in office. And it is scary. Scarier than that last line.
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