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Headlines : IraqBush's Own Church Wants Iraq Withdrawal
Bush is a man of God, this much we know. Some say he even told a Palestinian official that God told him to invade Iraq, so he did. Various churches and religious orders have denounced the war. But now his church is telling him to jump ship. Will this change anything? If not, does that mean all his God talk is really just B.S?
[Posted By atrain]Republished from United Methodist News Service
WASHINGTON (UMNS) — On a day when officials at the State Department were monitoring the results of a constitutional referendum in Iraq, a couple of miles away in a local hotel the United Methodist Board of Church and Society passed a resolution calling on the United States to withdraw its troops from the country.
“As people of faith, we raise our voice in protest against the tragedy of the unjust war in Iraq,” the resolution stated. “We urge the United States government to develop and implement a plan for the withdrawal of its troops. The U.S. invasion has set in motion a sequence of events which may plunge Iraq into civil war.”
Criticizing a war “waged on false premises,” the resolution went on to state, “Thousands of lives have been lost and hundreds of billions of dollars wasted in a war the United States initiated and should never have fought. ...We grieve for all those whose lives have been lost or destroyed in this needless and avoidable tragedy. Military families have suffered undue hardship from prolonged troop rotations in Iraq and loss of loved ones. It is time to bring them home.”
The resolution passed easily on the last day of the board’s…
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Ari Paul has written for The American Prospect, In These Times, Tikkun, Z, Punk Planet, openDemocracy.net, Reason and other newspapers and magazines. He is also a reporter for The Chief-Leader, a New York weekly covering labor in the city.
ATRAIN — Bush is (a) a Southern Baptist, not a Methodist; (b) attends an Episcopal church in Washington.
So the postion of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society is unlikely to reflect the POV of “Bush’s Own Church,” unless by this you mean Christianity in general, which is too diverse to summarize or be spoken for by one body of one denomination.
Nevertheless as a Christian and an American I agree with the Methodists, naturally, and fault Bush for his stupid and immoral war which is based on a flimsy pretext of “war on terror.”
We have started a new religion here in the Mile High City. We are called “NUTS”. We wear large nuts (the mechanical kind) around our necks and are quite proud of being “NUTS”. Our pride comes from the fact we are not extremists. We are just plain “NUTS”. Extremists are known as “Wingnuts” and we have nothing to do with them.
disgruntled,
can you source that…pbs, sojornors, and the nation as well had him down as a methodist…i did read one thing that said he was born into the epsicopial church but switched to methodism…
thanks,
ari p.
“Bush’s Own Church Wants Iraq Withdrawal”
Wow that is a compelling statement. That clinches it I think. I think I am going to change sides against the US and back terror because some Jesus freaks have decided the liberation for Iraq is not worth it.