{"id":1451,"date":"2004-11-10T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-justice-of-our-evil-king\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T18:47:02","slug":"the-justice-of-our-evil-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-justice-of-our-evil-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The Justice Of Our Evil King"},"content":{"rendered":"

God intervened to re-elect President Bush; George W. Bush and evangelicals; divine intervention in elections<\/a> — Beliefnet.com<\/p>\n

Did God Intervene?
\nEvangelicals are crediting God with securing re-election victory for George W. Bush. By Deborah Caldwell<\/p>\n

The Almighty intervened in the U.S. election, these evangelicals believe, to allow Bush to remain president. They say God has \u201cblessed\u201d America with Bush–and had Sen. John Kerry been elected, God would have \u201ccursed\u201d the U.S. By allowing Bush to be re-elected, God has given America \u201cmore time\u201d to stop its slide into evil. …<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was Providence,\u201d evangelical leader and presidential adviser Charles Colson told Beliefnet [Charles Colson<\/a> was chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973…. Known as President Nixon’s hatchet man, Colson could be counted on to break the china – do whatever was necessary – to achieve the desired political ends of his boss.]. \u201cAnybody looking at the 2000 election would have to say it was\u2026a miraculous deliverance, and I think people felt it again this year.\u201d By allowing Bush to stay in office, Colson said, God is \u201cgiving us a chance to repent and to restore some moral sanity to American life.\u201d …<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Paul Weyrich, founder of the Free Congress Foundation and one of the original engineers of the conservative Christian political revolution, wrote an essay claiming that \u201cGod gave this President and this President\u2019s Party one more chance\u2026God heard the fervent prayers of millions of values voters to keep His hand on America one more time despite our national sins of denying the right to life, despite ignoring the Biblical injunction against acts which are \u2018an abomination unto the Lord\u2019 and despite the blatant attempt to remove God from the public square.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jim Rogers of the group Mission America sent out an email the day after the election saying, “Yesterday America cried out and He heard from heaven and answered our prayers. PRAISE GOD!!” …<\/p>\n

Now that God has given America extra time from which to be spared his wrath, evangelicals feel some urgency to buckle down to God\u2019s business. …<\/p>\n

Many evangelicals think America is secular and decadent and in cultural decline. Their role, they believe, is to stem that tide and renew the culture. Many of these Christians seem to believe that God will be angry with them\u2014and with the entire nation\u2014if they don\u2019t make big legislative changes. And so, they put themselves on a short leash with God, and they hope to convince other Americans to do likewise.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod is not going to tolerate a nation that thumbs its nose at Him,\u201d Colson says. …<\/p>\n

It seems clear that the president himself believes that God is orchestrating American history. At the 2003 National Prayer Breakfast, for instance, Bush said, “we can be confident in the ways of Providence… Behind all of life and all of history, there’s a dedication and purpose, set by the hand of a just and faithful God.” …<\/p>\n

The Puritans believed they were establishing the New Israel and that their enterprise was guided by God–that they were God’s chosen people headed for the Promised Land. But that metaphorical idea, that America was a beacon, began to mutate by the early 19th Century into the belief that America was the literal instrument to lead a world transformation to Christian<\/i> democracy<\/b>. …<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen God\u2019s people were idolatrous and rebellious he sent justice–sometimes evil kings<\/b> and sometimes foreign conquerors,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve said on numerous occasions, that if God would allow his chosen people to be taken off into captivity, don\u2019t think he won\u2019t judge the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God intervened to re-elect President Bush; George W. Bush and evangelicals; divine intervention in elections — Beliefnet.com Did God Intervene? Evangelicals are crediting God with securing re-election victory for George W. Bush. By Deborah Caldwell The Almighty intervened in the U.S. election, these evangelicals believe, to allow Bush to remain president. They say God has … Continue reading The Justice Of Our Evil King<\/span> →<\/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-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}