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p> PERVERSION OF TRUTH br> Re: Mark Tooley's Bush the Bad Christian : /p>

It's always annoying to see the Bible taken out of context. Whether it's done by Iranian president Mahmood Ahmadinejad, the National Council of Churches, or the rest of the religious left hardly matters; the result is the same: perversion of truth.

These self-serving jerks should actually read the Bible someday. If they did they would find passages such as Matthew 10:34 wherein Jesus said, "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."

Is that clear enough to penetrate their thick skulls and hard hearts? If not, I wonder if they could explain to the rest of us how allowing mad dictators to control every aspect of their countrymen's lives or threaten Israel and the rest of the region with an unprovoked nuclear attack somehow provides "justice for the poor and oppressed?" Do they really believe Jesus would turn a blind eye towards rape rooms, putting people into recycling shredders, or of unprovoked nuclear annihilation?

p>And, of course, Christians believe that Jesus is God, not, as Ahmadinejad put it, "one of the great prophets of the Almighty." As C. S. Lewis famously pointed out, since Jesus claimed to be God he either is just that, or else was a liar or a lunatic. Clearly Ahmadinejad wishes it were one or both of the later two, as that would be someone to whom he could relate. br> -- R. Trotter /p>

First, that anyone takes with more than a grain of salt the rantings of Mahmood Ahmadinejad, a non-Christian who believes in Allah--and not the Judeo-Christian deity which we call the LORD God--about George Bush and his relationship with Christ Jesus is absurd.

Second, that the "religious" liberal-left assaults the president, who appears to hold more Biblically traditional -- perhaps, even at times, more anchored in Christ? -- values than them, is predictable and instructive. Remember the Pharisees and Sadducees?

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