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IHT: The twisted religion of Blair and Bush

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Saturday March 11, 2006 17:34author by Eoin


The twisted religion of Blair and Bush
Phillip Blond and Adrian Pabst International Herald Tribune

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2006
Secular Britain was shocked last weekend when Prime Minister Tony Blair said that God would be his judge over the war in Iraq. Similarly, President George W. Bush has often used God to justify the war on terror as a religiously blessed and righteous campaign against "evil doers." Predictably, those who oppose the war view themselves as secular progressives untainted by religious fundamentalism and the madness it produces.

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Unfortunately for liberals, the origins of Bush's and Blair's religious convictions lie not within Christianity but rather within the history of Western modernization and, most important, within contemporary liberalism itself.
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Religious bigotry does not exist i the west alone
author by Paulpublication date Sun Mar 12, 2006 04:13author address author phone

I believe the new iranian PM also hears the voice of god,

at least somebody does pity it is the blairs, bushs, and any other freak who does the same

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