{"id":1078,"date":"2003-04-05T04:16:29","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/bush-and-religion\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:40:01","slug":"bush-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/bush-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush and religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14919,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&amp;storyID=2509175&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050310044011\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com:80\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 06:37:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 06:37:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14920,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ravensblood.net\\\/mainblog\\\/archives\\\/000582.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Looks like I&#8217;m not the only one concerned about the rapidly disappearing divide between <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/on_your_knees.html\" title=\"On your knees!\">church<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/on_your_knees_p.html\" title=\"On your knees, part 2\">state<\/a> under Bush&#8217;s regime. According to Reuters, a fair amount of Europe is finding this to be <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&amp;storyID=2509175\" title=\"Bush mix of God and War grates on many Europeans\">cause for concern<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  German President Johannes Rau, a Protestant preacher&#8217;s son who makes no secret of his own faith, reacted sharply this week on n-tv television to press reports that Bush believed defeating Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was part of a divine plan.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;George Bush has got a completely one-sided message. I don&#8217;t think a people gets a sign from God to liberate another people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Nowhere does the Bible call for crusades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel, a vocal critic of the war, said before hostilities broke out last month that he saw Christian fundamentalism gaining influence in Washington and added: &#8220;That is, of course, a dangerous point of departure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, asked about a U.S. weekly&#8217;s cover story on Bush and God, told Le Point magazine: &#8220;In no way can God be called on for a vote of confidence.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravensblood.net\/mainblog\/archives\/000582.shtml\" title=\"Questionable seperation of Church and State again\">Chronicle Corvidae<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I&#8217;m not the only one concerned about the rapidly disappearing divide between church and state under Bush&#8217;s regime. According to Reuters, a fair amount of Europe is finding this to be cause for concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}