You're not supposed to deify a bush unless it's burning

by Prometheus 6
September 25, 2004 - 3:15pm.
on Politics | Religion

I think they're going for the burning bush look, though. Ah, to bask in the Presidential Radiance.

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This is the most posed picture I've seen passed off as a news photo in 37 years. Between the backlighting (the whole sky), the wide angle lens distortion (only Bush himself is upright)…I mean, the photographer must lie on the ground to get this perspective.

Look at the expression on Bush's face here. Even he has trouble not laughing. Frankly, if he knew as much as I about what the Bible says, he'd worry:

Isa 14:12-20

12 "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, you who have weakened the nations!

13 "But you said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north.

14 "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

15 "Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.

16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, they will ponder over you, {saying} "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,

17 Who made the world like a wilderness and overthrew its cities, who did not allow his prisoners to {go} home?'

18" All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb.

19" But you have been cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.

20" You will not be united with them in burial, because you have ruined your country, you have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.
(NAU)

And everyone who read that Left Behind series and all its unbelievable spin-offs should worry too:

Isa 5:15-23

15 So the {common} man will be humbled and the man of {importance} abased, the eyes of the proud also will be abased.

16 But the LORD of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the holy God will show himself holy in righteousness.

17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.

18 Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood, and sin as if with cart ropes;

19 Who say, "Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see {it;} and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come to pass, that we may know {it!} "

20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight!

22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!
(NAU)