George W. Bush has stated that God told him to invade Iraq and that he didn't consult his father George Herbert Walker Bush. Reason he didn't consult the former President Bush was mostly likely due to the fact he knew that he would not hear what he wanted. God is always going to tell people who have the attitude that if it isn't what they want to hear they will not accept it, exactly what they want to hear.

Problem with such a person is that God speaks in their mind and exactly the same things That person is thinking. Pretty hard for God not to tell them to do something when the only thoughts are those of that person assigned to God to rationalize an act that is anything but legitimate.

A good story is about the young boy who had a test coming the next day, but that night he wanted to do something else that would keep him from studying for the test. The boy prays before going to bed for help on the test and a good results, and convincing himself God was going to make it come out a sparkling good grade, he went to sleep.

The next morning the boy gets up and goes off to school ready to tackle that test he had not studied for. The boy goes home after telling the teacher he had prayed about the test and would have a great score and leaves, totally believing he would see a passing grade. However, the next day he got the test back with a big large zero in red, but under the zero was another grade. The grade also had a note which read, God 100.

George W. Bush may or may not have believed that God told him to invade Iraq, but like our little boy in the story, he didn't do the study he should. No weapons of mass destruction, no Saddam connection with Osama bin Laden, and worse of all he didn't liberate the people, but stole from them, abused them, and even killed them. Folks, that surely doesn't seem to be the God that is talked about in the Bible. He never sent a nation to war with lies, deceit, and exploitation of those who were the liberated.

It seems rather strange that in a time when a president uses God as an excuse for an illegitimate war, that his brother's state gets hit by 3 different hurricanes,and a 4th likely, sparing no section of it from the fury of these monsters. It is really hard to not draw the conclusion that maybe God was letting the people know that George W. Bush had blamed him for an act that God never sanctioned. There of course is no way to find out for sure, but when people see such fury as a hurricane once it remains with them. The fury of 3 does stay with those hit by them no matter how much it is tried to rationalize.

George W. Bush has tempted God, with his vile invasion, his hypocricy shown in a visit to a Canadian Leader, and his policies of stealing both from the government and the average and poor that he is suppose to serve. He has created such a division between "christians" that it has lead to many turning away from the religions in disgust and anger, which the Bible does clearly say that it would be better that a millstone was hung around their neck. The resentment of those who see churches being asked to mobilize political actions within the church to help win Bush the election, and the actual following through of those churches reminds the thinking person, that the one act of anger from Jesus recorded in the Bible, was when Jesus afterwards stated that they had made the house of pray, a den of theives.

Looking at the record of deception, lies, and manipulations of this administration, as well as the illegal war and abuse of funds for personal usage, a thinking person has to wonder what God must think of his churches, which for the sake of the point we will concede they really are his, being used to gain four more years of this type of people. It is hard to think Jesus would enter these churches today without doing some more house cleaning.

The Bible speaks of cold and luke warm churches in the Book of Revalations. It also speaks of false prophets, and of those who claim to be of God, but who God tells to depart from him. Well, George W. Bush might be one of those, and one would have to say his actions haven't been anything other than chaos and confusion. It does say in the Bible, that God is not the author of confusion, but the prince of peace. Well, maybe George W. Bush should show us why we have such confusion and peace is more of a stranger than it has been in a long time.

Bush puts God on his side

By Tom Carver

BBC Washington correspondent

Before September 11, President George W Bush kept his evangelical Christian beliefs largely to himself.

Bush convinced God wants him to engage the forces of evil He had turned to God at the age of 40 as a way of kicking alcoholism, and his faith had kept him on the straight and narrow ever since, giving him the drive to reach the White House.

But all that changed on the day of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

Those close to Mr Bush say that day he discovered his life's mission.

He became convinced that God was calling him to engage the forces of evil in battle, and this one time baseball-team owner from Texas did not shrink from the task.

'Angels' country'

"We are in a conflict between good and evil. And America will call evil by its name," Mr Bush told West Point graduates in a speech last year.

In this battle, he placed his country firmly on the side of the angels.

"There is wonder-working power in the goodness and idealism of the American people," he said in this year's State of the Union address.

This concept of placing America in God's camp sticks in the throat of a lot of American clergy.

"It is by no means certain that we are as pure as the driven snow or that our international policy is so pure," says Fritz Ritsch, Presbyterian minister in Bethesda, Maryland.

The Reverend Ritsch says it also makes their job as clerics harder by giving Christians in America an easy way out.

They do not need to examine their souls because their president has told them they are on the side of good.

"There is an opportunity here for spiritual enrichment in this country that is just getting missed."

Battle with anti-Christ

In fact, nearly all the mainline churches in America oppose this war, including Mr Bush's own church, the United Methodists.

Does Bush believe he fights a titanic battle with the anti-Christ? Mr Bush is certainly not the first president to invoke God in time of war, but his approach is markedly different from his predecessors.

During America's Civil War, Abraham Lincoln did not claim that God was on his side.

In fact, in his famous second inaugural address, he said the war was a curse on both armies: "He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came."

Yet Mr Bush's rhetoric does have a huge audience.

One in three American Christians call themselves evangelicals and many evangelicals believe the second coming of Christ will occur in the Middle East after a titanic battle with the anti-Christ.

Does the president believe he is playing a part in the final events of Armageddon?

If true, it is an alarming thought.

But he would not be alone, as 59% of all Americans believe that what is written in the Bible's Book of Revelation will come to pass.

Winning formula

Tim LaHaye is an evangelical minister who has written 10 best-selling novels based on the Book of Revelations.

With exquisite timing, his 11th, called Armageddon, will be published next week.

By combining the apocalypse with a Tom Clancy style, Mr LaHaye has found a winning formula.

After the attacks on the World Trade Center, the minister became America's best-selling novelist in 2001, beating even John Grisham.

In his latest novel we see the anti-Christ, armed with nuclear weapons, setting up camp at New Babylon in Iraq.

The millions of Americans who believe in the biblical prophecies see this war in a very particular way and among them, George Bush's stark talk of good versus evil plays very well.

If America prevails, millions will say it was divinely ordained.

But many others will suspect that it had more to do with the power of American weaponry than the active intervention of the Almighty.