{"id":845,"date":"2004-11-03T07:35:51","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T12:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=845"},"modified":"2004-11-03T07:35:51","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T12:35:51","slug":"bushs-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God, please help me to love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs4god.com\/linker\/article.php?a=001829\">your people<\/a>, even when I think they&#8217;re being stupid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My impression of Bush&#8217;s faith is that it is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/cgi-bin\/bible?passage=&#038;search=whitewashed+tombs&#038;version=NIV&#038;language=english&#038;optional.x=0&#038;optional.y=0 \">whitewashed tomb<\/a>.  He quotes Scripture and hymn lyrics in his speeches (or attempts to make witty allusions to them and ends up confusing all those who are not well-versed in either) but I have yet to see his actions actually measure up.  Yes&#8230; he&#8217;s pro-life.  He also isn&#8217;t doing squat for the children that weren&#8217;t aborted but are living in poverty.  &#8220;No Child Left Behind&#8221; is the biggest joke in the educational community because the funding isn&#8217;t there to make it work.  If Bush claims to be such a strong Christian, doesn&#8217;t he know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/cgi-bin\/bible?passage=james+2%3A17&#038;search=&#038;version=NIV&#038;language=english&#038;optional.x=0&#038;optional.y=0\">faith without works is dead<\/a> (i.e. he needs to put his money where his big fat mouth is)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, please help me to love your people, even when I think they&#8217;re being stupid&#8230; My impression of Bush&#8217;s faith is that it is a whitewashed tomb. He quotes Scripture and hymn lyrics in his speeches (or attempts to make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=845\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-dD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}