"What stronger delusion can beguile the mind than
the pretense that you are building on the right foundation and that God
accepts your works, when in reality you are working out many things according
to worldly policy and are sinning against Jehovah? Oh, it is a great
deception, a fascinating delusion, that takes possession of minds when men
who have once known the truth, mistake the form of godliness for the spirit
and power thereof . . .” (8T 249)
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April 7, 2005 - Hillary Clinton
Lauds Adventist Church on Religious Freedom Issues
From Adventist Review Online:
News Notes
(March 2002)
Joe Escobar, a Florida Conference member, had
the opportunity within the last year to personally present both President George
W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush with copies of The Desire of Ages
and The Great Controversy.[1]
[1] This presentation would be laughable if it were not so
tragic. George W. Bush is the President
who has taken a wrecking ball to the U.S. Constitution and the wall of
separation between Church and State.
While this is much clearer at the end of 2007 than in March, 2002, it
was nevertheless clearly discernible then.
One year earlier Roman
Catholic activist Paul Weyrich reported on a call to Karl Rove, "Before I
get to the business of why I've called you," I said to President Bush's
political guru Karl Rove, "I would be grateful if you would give your
President a message from me." Rove was most obliging. "Tell him that he has mastered the art of Catholic
governance," I said. Rove replied: "That's pretty good for a
Methodist."
Weyrich's opinion of Bush's Catholicity
was shared by a then heavyweight in the U.S. Senate, Roman Catholic Rick
Santorum. A report from
In
contemporary Western debates, this idea of unity between faith and political
allegiance often puts Opus Dei-inspired politicians on the right. Santorum was
a forceful champion of this view. He told NCR that a distinction between
private religious conviction and public responsibility, enshrined in John Kennedy’s famous speech in 1960 saying
he would not take orders from the Catholic church if elected president, has
caused “much harm in America.” . . .
Santorum
told NCR that he regards George W. Bush as “the first Catholic president
of the
“From
economic issues focusing on the poor and social justice, to issues of human
life, George Bush is there,” he said. “He has every right to say, ‘I’m where
you are if you’re a believing Catholic.’ ” (Emphasis added)
The President’s brother,
Jeb Bush, was and is a convert to Roman Catholicism, and was the prime
architect of the theft of Florida’s Electoral College vote in the 2000
election.
The presentation was naïve - and pathetic!!