Posted on 05/22/2006 8:36:25 AM PDT by pissant
U.S. President George W. Bush has alienated Muslims around the world by using absolutist Christian rhetoric to discuss foreign policy issues, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.
"I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy," she said, referring to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both Democrats and Christians.
"President Bush's certitude about what he believes in, and the division between good and evil, is, I think, different," said Albright, who has just published a book on religion and world affairs. "The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying to some of us."
Bush, a Republican, has openly acknowledged his Christian faith informs his decisions as president. He says, for example, that he prayed to God for guidance before invading Iraq.
Some Muslims have accused him of waging a crusade against Islam, comparable with those of the Middle Ages. The White House says it has nothing against Islam, but against those who commit terrorist atrocities in its name.
But Albright says Bush's religious absolutism has made U.S. foreign policy "more rigid and more difficult for other countries to accept."
In her book, "The Mighty and the Almighty," Albright recalls how Bush, while he was governor of Texas, told Christians he believed God wanted him to be president.
She quotes from his speech to his party convention of 2004, when he told Republicans: "We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom."
"Some of his language is really quite over the top," Albright told Reuters on Sunday during a trip to London to promote her book. "When he says 'God is on our side', it's very different from (former U.S. President Abraham) Lincoln saying 'We have to be on God's side.'"
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"President Bush's certitude about what he believes in, and the division between good and evil, is, I think, different," said Albright, who has just published a book on religion and world affairs. "The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying to some of us."
So thinking Al Qaeda and Saddam are evil is somehow a religious thing? Oh I see, so what does this dyke call them, "poor miunderstood rogues?" Good gosh, I get so sick of this liberal conceit that Bush is some sort of religious nut. The only time he brings up religion is when some media puke tries to bait him with religious questions. I'm not sure how thinking it's evil for North Korea to throw entire families into slave labor gulags is somehow a sign someone is a religious nut. I guess unless you see "shades of gray" in North Koreans being slaughtered in death camps or Al Qaeda decapitating hostages, you're just some sort of religious fanatic.
By the way, I love this b-tch claiming Clinton was a "religious man." LOL, please, this is this witch's idea of a religious man, a serial philanderer, liar and a felon. Go away hag, why the hell is this never-was (as opposed to a has-been) still getting print space for her utterly braindead and ugly partisan remarks as if she's an expert in anything?
Bill's so religious that women get on their knees in his presence.
The ridiculous kindergaretn teacher again reminds us why she was such an embarrasment.
Incompetence on display.
God wants Madeline Albright to shutup and go away.
Oops, forgot the "all men are created equal part".
My public school didn't teach the declaration, so don't hold it against me! LOL.
DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT THING?
(great movie reference)
Klinton a man of faith? Faith in his erection maybe.
Oh, Clinton and Maddie had the perfect formula for not alienating Moslems LOL
"I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy,"
...And these two dolts exhibited the worst foreign policy of the last century. Your point is well taken.
What was Albright's background?
Her "qualification" for UN rep?
Here's a good one from the good book:
Proverbs 26:7
7Like a lame man's legs which hang useless; is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
I concur.
Madeleine Albright is forgetting she and Klinton bombed the Christian Serbs while siding and appeasing with the moslem kla islamofacists
I, too, believe God chose President Bush to lead our nation in these times. And his faith is what causes democrats and liberals to hate him so. It's spiritual warfare.
First, the term faith certainly implies faith in something specific. Call it absolute, but anything called faith that is not absolute is not real faith. May I introduce Ms. Albright to the term doubt.
"Some of his language is really quite over the top," Albright told Reuters on Sunday during a trip to London to promote her book. "When he says 'God is on our side', it's very different from (former U.S. President Abraham) Lincoln saying 'We have to be on God's side.'"
Well, I agree with that. Though I think Bush said there is a difference between good and evil and God is not neutral between them. The rest is an obvious implication. It is evil to murder 3,000 people. It is good to try and stop them from doing it again.
If the Dems pull off the redefinition of faith as something ambiguous, then they are true marketing geniuses. It is possible, sadly, as exampled by the gay lobby's redefinition of basic and obvious truths. So who knows. And if faith is ambiguous and good and evil are indistinguishable, then Christianity is nothing at all. I suppose that is their ultimate aim.
Back to her Lincoln quote...that really is a great quote. We should ask ourselves if we are on God's side. I see no evidence that Ms. Albright is seeking any such knowledge.
Someone goofed; she was originally intended to CLEAN Clinton's cabinets;)
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