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ANN 13: God and Country

Irreligiosophy

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2009

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of ANN, we talk about the religious content of President Bush's Iraq war briefings. Separate church and state much?

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0:00.0

All right, hello, and welcome to another episode of Atheist News Network.

0:13.2

This one's interesting because I actually haven't discussed the Iraq war very much with Leighton.

0:18.6

And Leighton actually is a former, well, if you call Coast Guard part of the military.

0:25.0

Hey, we're the bastard child of the military, we still count,

0:29.0

even if we do get the leftovers of all the other military branches.

0:34.0

Awesome. So this article is called War Room is No Place for Bible Study at, was it Boston Globe

0:40.5

or something? Yeah, the Boston Globe and in fact I am still

0:44.7

completely flabbergasted at this article. I mean sadly though the more I think

0:49.2

about it the more I'm not too surprised but it's still flabbergast me. It's not the brightest guy

0:55.0

impressive I always thought that Bush

0:57.0

although not the brightest guy I heard that he doesn't believe in the Bible

1:01.0

literally I know he's really religious but I had heard that they like

1:04.5

Carl Rove and all these guys Rumsfeld kind of laughed at all the evangelicals at the

1:09.6

same time they were using them to drum up votes. Yeah.

1:13.0

And I kind of assumed that Bush was the same way.

1:15.0

Maybe he's not.

1:16.0

Maybe he's just as stupid as he comes off.

1:18.0

Well, I mean, reading this article and if there is any truth to it which obviously there is since there are people

1:25.2

in there downplaying it but with there being some sort of truth it's obvious that he believes

1:30.8

absolutely in everything the Bible says so I mean obviously he believes that we're going to die in rapture or whatever and then God's going to come and obviously he believes that there were a lot of animals on the ark.

1:46.0

Yeah, we should summarize the article for those who haven't read it.

1:50.0

There will be a link on the side as always, but basically what it says during the Bush era they

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