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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (96403)	4/26/2003 4:45:22 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Personally, I have no reason to get into a spitting match with anyone about whether or not they are a good Christian. That's between them and the Creator. I do think it's ironic that you would be challenging Bush on whether or not he rises to your definition of a good Christian. Reason being that many, maybe most, would rather that Presidents not promote their religion. Christ Himself set forth the separation of church and state when He said "render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and to God the things which are God's." Christ advised us to turn the other cheek when we are attacked, but He never discussed what we should do when the people we love most, including our innocent children and our aged parents, are under attack. I derive from the tale of the Gadarene swine and the tale of the money-changers that He didn't think turning your cheek was the proper response all the time. Presidents take an oath, before God, to protect the people of the United States. That oath is sacred, too. I believe that this oath isn't Judaeo-Christian, it's Anglo-Saxon, derived from the Germanic tribes from whence the Anglo-Saxons descend. We are the children of our ancestors. We do as we have been taught to do. Maybe your own world view is that the President should stand by and let the American people be murdered, because as a good Christian, he should turn the other cheek. We'll have to agree to disagree.