SOMEONE PLEASE RESCUE PRES BUSH FROM HIS TIME WARP

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Jesus said: "In the past it was an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth. Now I tell you it is love your enemies, do good to those who despite you."
Jesus rescued His own from the Old Testament time warp. There are sorts of interesting, complex reasons for that twist from Old to New; but this is not the time for that biblical study. However, Jesus had the wisdom to instruct His followers concerning moving on.

Someone has to move the President along.

For instance, in the past it was believed from some not religiously in-the-know that all religions are the same. All roads lead to the same God. All paths lead to heaven. Just be religious. It doesn’t matter which one you choose, just be something.

Now we know for certain that we can’t put all religions in the same category. There are world religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Hinduism and so forth. But when it comes to Islam, that is not one that fits into the others’ category. It falls on its own. Indeed it is not so much a world religion as a killing and maiming cult. It has all the marks of a dictatorial theologically demented cult.

In the past it was believed by Westerners that Middle East personages — particularly the masses — were just like us. But some were less fortunate in that despots controlled them. Therefore, what they yearned for was personal freedom, a democracy, liberties and a lifestyle like ours.

Now we know that those innocent looking personages are not like us in many ways. That does not mean that some are not like us — appreciating personal freedoms and the like. But there is a vast majority that is a totally different mortal category.

They are the ones who feast on killing, yearn to murder, live to hate and wake up to stab, pull the trigger, or light the bomb.

In the past it was pictured that if the whole world were just a free loving populace we could enjoy one another’s company. We would sit at one another’s table. We would put our arms around one another’s shoulders to bear life’s burdens. It just meant that we needed to build more kind bridges and give a little more, that is, be less selfish and more selfless.

Now we know that there is a whole company of monsters out there. We would not want their knives under our tables nor their rifles flashed under our noses. We would not want our children playing with their sons and daughters. Why?

Because we are prejudicial?

No.

Because their children are brought up to despise certain people, like the Jews, for instance. And their children are taught to kill themselves for Allah. Their offspring are even sent to torture schools were adult instructors show them how to cut off another’s head.

In the past it was thought that if only the free world would bend more we would find neighbors in nations that were somewhat mysterious to us but alluring once we got to know them. We just needed to crawl out of our cocoons long enough to come upon the riches of theier culture. We would then open our minds to fresh vistas.

Now we know that a culture, so-called, like Iraq was not so much filled with sophisticated treasures of mind, art, and literature. It was filled with cages filled with citizens shoved inside them by a dictator. They were a society where secret police whisked away pretty girls in the night to rape and kill them, some of them giving pleasures to Hussein and his grown sons.

There was a country where people poked swords into their stomachs at Hussein’s evening banquets in order to prove their prowess. He drank his wine while foolish males stabbed their bodies.

In the past it was decreed that all gods wished the same for mankind. All we needed to do was have more worldwide conferences for peace and love, then we would come upon the true religion that yielded its fruits of spiritual excellence.

Therefore, theologues from various theologically liberal seminaries mailed out their invitations to various religious leaders asking them to meet in some far off place for meditations and incantations. That would bring down the dove-like spirits.

Now we realize that many of those spirits are demonic. And not all gods are in the same league. There are gods with the small "g" who come from hell. Then they have their emissaries by which they move darkly through societies to inflict pain and confusion. In other words, melting all gods into one pot and calling it peace and love doesn’t work.

Now back to Mr. Bush. I thought I figured him out theologically.

I thought he gave enough witness to being an evangelical Christian that I could fill in the blanks concerning his relationship to Christ. He was Episcopalian. His wife is Methodist. They get along amicably with that twosome, apparently.

Mr. Bush has numerous friends in the evangelical camp, some very close to him in spiritual counsel. He has read his Bible, prays and knows various verses to quote. He has not kept his Christian testimony a secret. He has not tried at the same time to influence others to bow down to his faith, but instead has made it clear repeatedly that in a free society each citizen chooses for himself to be theist or atheist.

Now I have concluded that Mr. Bush is still all that. But what can go along with all that is this: naivete.

He has been particularly naïve about other religions, particularly the cult called "Islam." He has not been astute regarding biblical data regarding "gods" and "God." He has taken for granted a Pollyanna approach to faith that is quite accepting of others’ testimonies, even when they are lying to him.

Now to be fair to Mr. Bush I must state that most Americans are just like him. They are open to others’ opinions. They are accepting of others’ theologies. Some are convinced of their own convictions as Mr. Bush is so as to state them if asked. And so forth and so forth.

In all this we have come upon a huge mistake.

And it would not be so awful if it did not influence our very existence. The mistake is taking for granted that Islam is a peace religion, and that Islamics are people "like us."

They are not.

True Muslims are far from like us.

Muslims committed to the Koran, and that includes not just terrorists who make the news, are into horrific lifestyles.

I have enumerated these specifics in many prior articles; but for those who have not taken in the list, here it goes one more time: "honor killing," beating women for no reason, demoralizing females, razor-cutting girls’ genitals to keep them from sexual desires, believing in male dominance — much of it cruel, lashing youths at public poles for minor crimes, beheading innocent persons, beheading those who convert to another religion, stashing adultery-accused persons in earth piles so that their heads are bashed in with stones, the size prescribed by the Koran.

And one could on and on. Read the Koran’s maiming and murdering verses for yourself to get the full hellish picture.

Now with Mr. Bush going into Iraq, for instance, he thought he was lining up with a peace religion. He figured it would be companionable to Judeo-Christianity. Of course, it is anything but that.

He thought that Muslims were persons who prayed sincerely to the same "god" as the Christian God. Not so. Their "god" is Lucifer. He thought their "holy writ," the Koran, was acceptable and devotionally wise, so much so that he put a copy of it in the White House library. It is of course religious pornography scribed by demons.

Now one could one to other dimensions of present-day mistakes formed by analyzing incorrectly the cult, "Islam," but this much should suffice. The bottom line in all this is that the misreading of another’s theology has brought us to the planet’s possible demise. We are now waking mornings to Islamics out to cut our heads off.

Do you see what I mean by someone having to rescue Mr. Bush, and many more Americans, from his time warp?


Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
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ALLAH: "Fight, slay Unbelievers wherever ye find them.Seize them, beleaguer them, lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
Qur'an, Sura 9:5

CHRIST: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16

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