Bush’s own church, the United Methodist Church,
By on Sep 25th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Bush’s own church, the United Methodist Church,
has launched “a week of protest and civil disobedience against the war in Iraq by signing a declaration of peace urging President Bush to pull U.S. troops out of the country.”
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Don’t they know that god speaks through Bush?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:37 pmThose ChristianIslamoFascists!
September 25th, 2006 at 2:41 pmExcellent. This is what religion should be doing, promoting peace instead of the war making policies of a religious hypocrite such as George W. Bush.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:42 pm*KNOCK* *KNOCK* Hi, I am with the IRS and we are here to investigate…….
Homeland Security = Bush’s secret police.
Gotta love the clarity that has been brought to the interegation laws. Anyone know what is in or out?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:43 pmWhy does the United Methodist Church hate our freedom?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:45 pmI’m a (former) Methodist, and while I no longer attend church regularly, I’ve always been pleased with the UMC’s relatively liberal stances on many issues compared to other denominations. Seeing this today makes me proud of the church.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:47 pmOdds that a member of the press asks him about this?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:48 pmExcellent. This is what religion should be doing, promoting peace instead of the war making policies of a religious hypocrite such as George W. Bush.
Comment by Erroll
Old habits are hard to break. I think religions have been promoting wars since….well…the beginning of religions. “Our god is better than yours” can be pretty convincing to most.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:48 pmUncle Karl is gonna sic the IRS and them Methodist radicals.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:49 pmI would like to read the debate/sermon that the church in LA had that is creating the big issue with churches supporting politics. My inital thought is that the sermon promoted peace…I doubt I am wrong.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:49 pmSo what about all of the other right wing politically active churches (Falwell etc) and their strong political rantings…why are they not investigated?
Ok, no more pretending bush has a church. He’s broken way too many commandments for that.
Pretend Christians really piss me off.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:01 pmBush calls himself a Christian, but he got into the game quite late.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:02 pm(Actually, late, drunk & stoned.)
He had to affiliate with someone. Truth be told, he’s just the head cheerleader for the Church of the Poison Mind & keeper of the Holy Potato.
Bill Clinton is a leader.
Chris Wallace is a talking point dunce.
Paging the IRS — better pull their tax-free status ala All Saints in Pasadena.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:02 pmthat is a really good site… i bookmarked it weeks ago when the owner was a guest on sam seder’s evening show…
September 25th, 2006 at 3:07 pmhttp://www.evangelicalright.com
hahahahahahahahahaha
September 25th, 2006 at 3:13 pmGeorge is only a closet Methodist so this will have no lasting effect on him.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:14 pmUnited Methodist Church supports terrorism ????
dont really have a ring to it
September 25th, 2006 at 3:19 pmJohn Wesley, founder of the Methodist Movement, described the four pillars for Christian decision making: Scripture, tradition, personal experience, and reason. Bush does not appear to use anything other than his personal experience of getting rich off his neocon enablers.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:21 pmI wonder if we’ll see any more Laura-George photo-ops…
…from the pews of THAT church?
September 25th, 2006 at 3:26 pmHmm…I can smell burning bush.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:32 pmHis own church is turning against him….small wonder!
September 25th, 2006 at 3:34 pmBring the troops home in time for Christmas. Pull out the Johnny Mathis tunes and let the healing begin is what I say.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:41 pmThose silly Methodists, don’t they know that God has to get permission for Cheny and Rove before He can speak to Bush?
September 25th, 2006 at 3:55 pmHmm…I can smell burning bush.
Comment by Markie C
Heh….heh…heh….you said bush.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:57 pmSatan knows what he’s doing Bush is an appointee of Satan sitting in God’s church to get more followers. Chavez was right and now true Christians are seeing the Devil aka Bush for who he really is. Oh and the bloggers that follow the Prince of Darkness.
September 25th, 2006 at 4:00 pmI shall ask Mummy & Daddy if they will be turning off Fox “News” in order to join their church’s protest. :)
September 25th, 2006 at 4:04 pm[...] In the fallout of the weekend’s intel report clarifying yet again that the Iraq War has made the world less safe, President Bush’s own church, the United Methodist Church, has launched “a week of protest and civil disobedience against the war in Iraq by signing a declaration of peace urging President Bush to pull U.S. troops out of the country.†[...]
September 25th, 2006 at 4:08 pm[...] Also, this story has been wrongly interpreted as The United Methodist Church calling for the withdrawal of troops. Yes, these clergy represent The United Methodist Church, but they don’t speak on behalf of The United Methodist Church. It’s an important distinction. Plenty of other clergy have other opinions on the war. The United Methodist Church has official statements on war in general (though, like all of the UMC’s other teachings on hot-button issues, they are rather ambiguous), but I think it would be wrong to say that the church recognizes one particular UMC stance on the Iraq War. [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 4:58 pmKarma is coming to your house of warship EL DIABLOCO.
September 25th, 2006 at 5:33 pmAmerica please save your own asses and IMPEACH-PROSECUTE-EXECUTE, the international war criminals,traitors,profiteers,liars,etc, occupying your whitehouse before you are a pariah and no one will have anything to do with you, even for money.
U.S. is already considered a rogue nation with BOMBS enough to annhilate the world many times over,controlled by CRAZY NEO-FASCISTS that care nothing for it’s own citizens., never mind dissenters all on a list for secret camps made by HALIBURTON.
AND the BIGGEST threat in the world to peace.
Gee wiz golly gosh,why ?
Wait a minute. Bush claims to be a Methodist?
President George Bush converted from the Episcopal to the Methodist faith in 1986. Laura has always been a Methodist. …
marriage.about.com/od/celebritymarriages/p/georgewbush.htm
I don’t recall the date of George being Reborn..
September 25th, 2006 at 5:41 pmEveryone’s on the right track, great comments – - except that the United Methodist DOES have an official stance FOR peace. And… George W. refused to see a selected delegation of three United Methodist Bishops BEFORE he started “George’s War.” He wouldn’t let them in to talk or pray with him. I wasn’t aware he ever went to church these. His current spiritual advisors are Jerry Falwell and others like him, who also speak for God.
September 25th, 2006 at 10:25 pmThis post misrepresents the artice that Evangelical Right is linking to. Only the Council of Bishops or the General Conference can speak for the entire United Methodist Church, and neither has demanded a withdraw from Iraq. 100 United Methodists assembled in a rally to call for a US withdraw. This by no means can be asserted to be a governing authority of a denomination that numbers 11 million.
September 25th, 2006 at 11:09 pmAION #31
Bush is reborn…
EVERYDAY…
…don’t you watch his speeches…
…and the corporate controlled media’s coverage of him…
…and Tony Snowjob’s briefings?
September 26th, 2006 at 2:36 pm