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BUSH AND MOSES
William Edelen
| During the election campaign, the Rev. Mark Craig, Senior Minister of a Dallas, Texas Methodist church, one of the largest in America with a congregation of 12,000, climbed up into the pulpit and in his sermon compared (then) President-elect George W. Bush to Moses "being chosen by God to lead the people." As often happens when preachers get carried away with the sound of their own voice while looking down into all of those upturned faces, he crossed the line from theological ignorance to stupidity. In this case, he even crossed on over into insanity. |
When I read this, I thought..."My gawd....I hope Bush is not Moses!" Moses was the Slobodan Milosevic of the Old Testament who ordered ethnic cleansing...rape...genocide and a scorched earth policy. That brilliant Deist, Thomas Paine, who gave us the words "The United States of America," wrote this about Moses: |
"The character of Moses is the most horrid tale that can be imagined. Moses was a wretch that committed the most horrible atrocities that can be found in the literature of any nation. For Moses said unto them (according to the bible) ‘kill every male among the little ones....and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him....but all of the women that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.'" Among the most detestable villains in history you could not find one worse than Moses. Here is an order, attributed to God, to butcher the boys...massacre the others...and to rape their daughters...." |
If you want to read about this slaughter, blow the dust off your bibles and turn to the book of Numbers, Chapter 31. It will tell you that "God" has been the greatest cosmic hitman in our history as a species. |
Comparing George W. Bush to Moses must be among the most insane statements ever made by a preacher. |
From the clown of the Crystal Cathedral to the nearest bible-pounding church, most preachers just cannot resist pouring forth absolute nonsense to all of those upturned faces. |
Have you ever realized that the typical church service on a typical Sunday morning bears a striking resemblance to a court of law? The minister wears a robe, most often black, like a judge. He is elevated above the audience, like a judge. The pews and pulpit closely resemble the furniture of a courtroom. The minister preaches law from that idol that has replaced God, called the Bible. The audience (subjects) are supposed to symbolically prostrate themselves before all of this. The judge (minister) interprets the law...and then throws the book at them. (law: bible) |
No wonder it is almost impossible to think your way beyond all of these trappings to the enlightenment of a more refined spiritual consciousness if you have been subjected to this kind of authoritarian structure since early childhood. |
The preacher of one of the largest Methodist churches in America said Bush was another Moses. |
It is this kind of insanity from organized religion that stands as a great wall, as the greatest obstacle, to our spiritual evolution as a species. |
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