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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: O'Hara who wrote (126894)	2/13/2001 11:26:21 PM
From: E	Respond to of 769667

<<<I trust that God will use you in a mighty way...for His glory†>>> Thank you, shalom. I wonder if the possibility has occurred to you that there is a God whois, in fact, using me, and those like me, for his merciful purposes? A God who hates suffering, and blindness, and cruelty, and ideology's defeat of compassion? I don't believe it is the case, of course. I believe we suffering human beings must help each other, because we have only each other to rely on, and that sometimes it isn't hard to figure out what increases suffering and what decreases it. But what if I'm wrong, and I am one of God's instruments with which He offers the opportunity to His misguided, cruel, smuggest zealot-children to lift from themselves the fog of unreason that insulates their minds from empathy? What if we who pity diseased babies and starving orphans and raped children more than we value Bush's gag order are the instruments by which He lays His warm hand on their pitiless hearts? Nah. God would only work through people like PROLIFE, right? And Neocon, average joe, and you? I almost didn't include you in that sarcastic question, shalom. I can feel you trying to be a good soul. I can feel that your life has not always been easy, and you have triumphed to find joy where others might have foundered. (Can you guess how I know that?) I really did like the Kempis, btw. The last paragraph is not the way we should live with the suffering of little children in 2001, when it can be assuaged, or prevented. But of course he wrote to comfort in a different time.