Laughter Of The Gods
BY SHEILA SAMPLES
REPUBLISHED AS PART OF OUR CLASSIC ESSAYS SERIES.
James Inhofe, GOP senator for the benighted state of Oklahoma, former real estate developer, climate change denier extraordinaire, typifies the repugnant combination of profound ignorance, jingoism, corruption, and fanaticism that characterizes so much of the political class in America today. With corporats like these around who needs Bin Laden to do us in?
The more I look at the chaotic mess George W. Bush is making in every blessed corner of the world, the more I am inclined to take a closer look at the God in whose name he claims to be making it.
Just who IS this God that chats up brazen hypocrites and zealots in our midst — whipping them into a frenzy of pharisaic attempts to strangle democracy at home and abroad? This awesome creature is on a murderous rampage in the Middle East, Africa, South America and — as Donald Rumsfeld would say — east, west, north and south somewhat. Armed and jackbooted, Bush’s flinty-hearted Diety bears no resemblance to the compassionate and forgiving God in whom Christians have put their faith for more than two millenia. [Read more →]
