He’d rather talk about sex than God

As President Bush winds down his last year in office it is becoming increasingly clear, even to the rose colored glasses crowd, that our "born again" president is seriously lacking in good fruit.

From 9/11, when he held an ecumenical service at the Washington Cathedral, to his last years efforts to force Israel to give up her "covenant land" that God brought her back to, only the unbelieving and rebellious refuse to believe that what we have here is another wolf in sheep's clothing.

He’d rather talk about sex than God

George Bush built his career on his faith. But his key religious adviser tells of a different man behind the born-again image

TimesOnLine
Jacob Weisberg
January 27, 2008

One of the defining aspects of George W Bush’s presidency is his professed belief in God. Yet what really are his religious beliefs? The question, which seems central to understanding his presidency, never receives a satisfactory answer. Indeed, one religious figure close to him soon after his conversion was shocked to find that he talked about sex rather than theology and says that a lot of his faith seemed to be politically calculated.

Bush’s religion has often been described as evangelical. But unlike most other evangelicals, he blithely uses profanity and as governor of Texas he would play poker. He doesn’t pay tithes, he doesn’t try to convert others – one of the central obligations in most evangelical denominations. And he didn’t raise his daughters in the faith.

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