{"id":1220,"date":"2004-04-29T11:47:47","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-and-jesus\/"},"modified":"2004-04-29T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T18:47:47","slug":"bush-and-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-and-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush and Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics7.nytimes.com\/images\/2004\/04\/29\/arts\/29STAN.184.jpg\" alt=\"Bush with Jesus\"\/><a title=\"The New York Times  TV Review 'The Jesus Factor': Understanding the President and His God\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/29\/arts\/television\/29STAN.html?th\">The Jesus Factor: Understanding the President and His God<\/a> By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>The question is not, When did George W. Bush accept Jesus as his personal savior? The &#8221;Frontline&#8221; documentary &#8221;The Jesus Factor,&#8221; on PBS tonight, raises a different issue: <b>Do most Americans realize just how fervent the president&#8217;s evangelical faith really is?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[T]he program reminds viewers that <b>this &#8221;faith-based&#8221; president has blurred the line between religion and state more than any of his recent predecessors<\/b>: a vision that affects the Iraq conflict as well as domestic policy. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Once the younger Mr. Bush&#8217;s faith took hold, it spread to his political ambitions. <b>&#8221;I believe that God wants me to be president.&#8221;<\/b> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jesus Factor: Understanding the President and His God By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, NYTimes The question is not, When did George W. Bush accept Jesus as his personal savior? The &#8221;Frontline&#8221; documentary &#8221;The Jesus Factor,&#8221; on PBS tonight, raises a different issue: Do most Americans realize just how fervent the president&#8217;s evangelical faith really is? [T]he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-and-jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush and Jesus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}