Maybe Bush not quite as "faith-based" as he would have us think?

I've been praying since Nov. 7, 2000.

 

And the Lord said, "Let there be a fucking faith-based something."
And He saw that it was good.

 

Maybe it will be funny the 4th time....go for it.

 

And he will raise you up on eagle's wings ...

 

I think I saw it put best last night at the Conroe Cajun Catfish festival, on a T-shirt as it turned out. "May the God of your choice bless you."

Simple. Non-offensive, and even hard-core Southern Baptist redneck East Texas southerners could appreciate it and not take offense.

 

Now that's what I call a fucking faith-based something.
(Yes, AL. I do have a new favorite Fredo Administration catchphrase. It's hilariously cynical and perfectly illustrative of what these grifters have been up to for six years.)

 

I've always liked Florence King (for her writing more than her politics). This take on faith based funding made me laugh:

Bush's "faith-based initiative" is so unthought-out that it practically screams Arianna Huffington. It's gotten so complicated so fast that they're already tangled up in arguments about how to break down a good deed into its spiritual and temporal components so they can award tax credits for some of the free soup, but not all of it. Let one drunk fail to finish eating before the hymns start, and churches will have to cook the books to save the Constitution. Guaranteeing still more turmoil is the plan to "fund the individual," meaningless buzztalk dreamed up by putative conservatives who have yet to grasp the fact that all vouchers are simply the welfare state in single file.

 

Trying to supress beliefs? Dude, I couldn't shut you guys up with all the duck tape in the world. There isn't anyone, from any faith or belief in the U.S. right now who is able to supress anything. Did I miss something, or did Barbara Streisand get sentenced to life in gulag for bringing the George Bush impersonter on stage, then spewing profanity at someone who had the audacity to ask her to just sing the damn songs.

As I said before, if Christians are in a culture war, we're losing.

 

Well, when you send out the clowns to fight the war, that's what happens.

 

Wait, the Republicans kept telling us Christians -- and yes, I am one -- that if we kept electing them, they would fight the culture war by making Christians' business the nation's business. So what happened?

Ah, yes, back to the very first post on this thread . . .

 

I've got an idea Hondo ... Let me manage my own relationship with God, if I choose to even have one, and stay the fuck out of my business and that of everyone else.

That satisfy you?

 

Never once did I try to get in your business. Never tried to tell you what to do or what God to follow or what to have for lunch.
Merely mentioned that there is an alternative in life. Take it or leave it.
And is telling someone to "stay the fuck out of my business" a code for saying you don't want to hear other points of view, about anything?