hypocrite-in-chief

(Jesus) responded,(to the Pharisees)
"Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites,
as it is written:
This people honors Me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from Me;
in vain do they worship Me,
teaching as doctrines human precepts.

Mark 1: 6-7

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/020805.htm

 

Who could be more hypocritical than Bush?  He says he is a Christian, but he hardly ever goes to church.  He refused to even meet with the elders of the church he belongs to- the Methodists- when they endeavored to persuade him not to invade Iraq.  Last week the Pope, who thought he might be dying, felt impelled to warn the world that Bush might well be the antiChrist.

 

Bush promises freedom to everyone, yet abroad he sets up prisons like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, and fills them with "terrorists" who are held indefinitely without due process.  Most of these are eventually found to be innocent and released, but only after undergoing years of terror and torture.  Bush refuses to fire Rumsfeld, and has elevated the legal architect of the torture doctrine, Gonzales, to Attorney General.

 

At home, he has wiped out our constitutional freedoms with the little-notice Homeland Security Act, and is putting in place a secret police:

This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units on American soil for what the author claims are "extra-legal missions."

In other words, using U.S. soldiers to kill or arrest Americans, acts that have been illegal since the U.S. Civil War. - quoted from:  http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2005/02/06/922316.htmlSun, February 6, 2005

Paranoia grips the U.S. capital

By Eric Margolis -- Contributing Foreign Editor

 

Bush claims to oppose abortion, yet he authorizes the use of depleted uranium weaponry, which greatly increases the abortion rate among US military personnel and among the civilian population of countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia. 

 

Bush claims to be working for Jesus, yet his policies impoverish the people and enrich his cronies.  He serves mammon, not God.

 

The list of hypocritical doctrines goes on and on. I'm sure all readers can add their own examples. 

 

Jesus never tolerated hypocrites, why should we?

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,   Carol Wolman