Why does this line bother me SO much?

[kpete]

MR. SNOW: The President believes in the forgiveness of sins for all who seek forgiveness.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060801-4.html

[varkam]

1. Because it is quite bothersome.

Proselytizing from the oval office strikes me as frightening, at the least.

[arcane1]

8. that, definitely, and the fact that Bush doesn't believe that shit either

I don't buy his pseudo-christian act for a minute

[kenny blankenship]

2. Because it sounds like it comes right out of the Inquisition?

How much we torture you doesn't matter. What matters is that you make a full confession and ask forgiveness of God, that way your soul will go to Heaven as it rises from the fire that burns your body.

[Gatchaman]

3. Cause it paints bush as the messiah?

bush is the way and the light. All who seek his forgiveness shall be blessed.

[burythehatchet]

6. yep

[Virginia Dare]

4. Delete, read the damn thing for the answer...n/t

[acmejack]

21. What's the problem, Virginia?

Does Polanski just piss you off? Or is it something about Press Conferences in general. Bad day?

[Virginia Dare]

22. No, I was pissed at myself for asking a stupid question..

before reading the link. But it does piss me off that we have an ignorant pea-brained putz with a messiah complex for a President.

Thanks for askin' :hi:

[beyurslf]

5. Because Bush is a rotten lying asshole and who cares what he believes

[ThomCat]

7. Because the president should not be preaching Christianity!

:grr:

[Lerkfish]

9. how deity-like of him to forgive sins.....sheesh!

[Dudley_DUright]

10. So it is not enough for Shrub to be the infallible "decider",

now he has to be the infallible pope as well?

[Bluebear]

11. So. Bush is now the Sacred Decider as well. nt

[lpbk2713]

12. Are we talking about the same asshole

who laughed when executions were carried out when he was governor of Texas?

[OwnedByFerrets]

16. Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.....

'Cause it paints bush as the messiah?
bush is the way and the light. All who seek his forgiveness shall be blessed."
That thought makes me want to
:puke:

[Flying Dream Blues]

24. The very same. Couldn't name the ten commandments but is

G*d's representative on earth.

[Clark2008]

27. Oh, he probably could do that... but he doesn't know jack about

the Sermon on the Mount, which, ultimately, is what's important (if you're Christian).

[Missy M]

13. It is obvious that is how Bush thinks he will be forgiven....

for invading a country under false pretenses and all the death and destruction that resulted. What a pompous ass he is. His statement makes my skin crawl.

[magellan]

14. Because it's so conditional

And clearly reflects Bush**'s sentiment that one's guilt or innocence is a matter for him to decide.

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Bush put himself in the place of god the father

He makes himself the ultimate authority.

He will forgive those who seek forgiveness? Excuse me, but my I tell this asshole to go stick it where the sun don't shine?

[gratuitous]

17. Because it's blasphemous?

After all, my reading of the Bible says God forgives sins (sin being defined as an offense against God), and it's clearly not up to us mortals to decide the terms of forgiveness, which is what Snow says Bush is arrogating to himself.

Or maybe it's because Snow is seeking to wrap Bush's megalomania in a religious cloak designed to fool the gullible?

There's a lot of levels on which this statement is bothersome. That's probably why it bothers you so much.

[GeorgeGist]

18. Before you could seek forgiveness...

you would have to find the victim(s); wouldn't you?

[helderheid]

19. Because * believes he is the 2nd coming as does Snow.

[kentuck]

20. And then he will turn the water to wine...

and the multitudes will eat the loaves and fishes...??

[OwnedByFerrets]

25. Instead his policies turn water into blood

and the world eats stale bread, if that.

[Cobalt-60]

29. Chimpy has been

changing his blood into wine for years now ;)

[titoresque]

23. How does Snow know this?

Did they (Bush and Snow) discuss this over a kitten sacrifice? What a bunch of fucking loons!

[karlrschneider]

26. Did he say it to Karla Fay Tucker?

I don't think so.

[Corgigal]

28. I could understand the local parrish Priest

saying the above but not a political figure. Especially this power hungry, money grubbing, major league asshole.

[Patsy Stone]

30. Because * isn't God?

And that's a really creepy statement?

[Stephanie]

31. Because he hasn't sought forgiveness for any of his own

Not to mention evangelizing from the WH press conference. But it's the bitter irony of the statement. How many THOUSANDS killed under his watch, brutally, needlessly. The nation in ruins, the environment shattered, the Constitution lost. I'd like to hear Geroge Bush say "forgive me," just once.