Bush, like Job of old, is waiting on God to act

I know what Bush(#43) is thinking.

When I was twelve, I thought the same way. I didn't know any better. Neither does Bush now.

As a child, I firmly, wholeheartedly, without a doubt in my mind, believed that if I stayed the course, did what God wanted me to do—as taught to me from the Protestent Bible by the born-again adults in my life—God would sort everything out for me in the end. Like He did for Job.

I heard the story of Job so many times—in Sunday School, from the pulpit on Sunday mornings, in Wednesday night Bible Study, from evangelists spreading the Word of God and calling on men and women, boys and girls to repent—that it is indelibly engrained in my neurons ... though I no longer believe it.

Bush's logic fits the myth. He believes it—firmly, wholeheartedly, without a doubt in his mind. It is there in the tone of voice, the cut of his jib, the swagger in his walk ... he is God's Chosen.

There are other great myths of the fundamentalist evangelical Christian mindset. One of them is even more troubling than the story of Job when we talk about a leader of the most powerful nation on earth in terms of nuclear weaponry. It is the myth of the coming end times with Jesus returning and the world getting sorted out in the Battle of Armageddon ... which takes place in the Middle East.

Have no doubt, Bush believes this—firmly, wholeheartedly, without a doubt in his mind. It is indelibly engrained in his neurons.