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LILEKS (James) The Bleat
Why is it that Kerry scares the holy living bejeebers out of me? Is it the fact that he's claimed, apparently that he was endorsed by unknown foreign leaders? And since that time the they've tried to argue that MORE leaders instead of FOREIGN leaders is what they meant? And told people asking about it that it's none of their business? Thanks to the Volokh Conspiracy for those links
Maybe. Maybe it's the fact that Kerry seems to be joining the press in belittling Bush for expressing a belief in God. A belief in God does not necessarily make you a weak minded fool, nor does it disqualify you to hold executive office. Neither does a disbelief. I think I'm tired of smug people in the press, in politics, and elsewhere trying to make people who believe in God look like idiots, or intellectual lightweights. Heck, read This is True long enough, and you'll see that there are no shortage of idiots on both sides of the religious spectrum.
Anyway, I think that God was on our side in Iraq. Why?
Because if you believe in God, then you have to accept that we would have lost if God wasn't on our side.
I think even people who don't necessarily believe in God should appreciate that people who do should come to that rational conclusion, or admit that God is not omnipotent. Now, I know this opens up several rather large cans of worms. Why would God allow that regime to exist as long as it did? Why would God allow Saddam to do the things he did? Heck, why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? Why do good people get hurt, or paralyzed? Why do puppies get run over by cars? In the final analysis, we have to believe that God knows what He's doing, or reject the belief in God altogether.
It's difficult to hang on to your belief sometimes, in the face of tragedy, in the face of disaster, in the face of heartbreak, in the face of evil. We can look around us at all of the things that are going wrong in our society, at murder, at rape. I think that the popular press makes it easy for us to look at these things, shake our heads, and wonder where we've gone wrong.
What the popular press perhaps isn't very good at saying is ... while these may be the general indicia of a society gone wrong, society is people. Society is us. And what we do changes society for the better or the worse.