Sunday, May 04, 2003
And as more Iraqis get killed due to 'misunderstandings' with their new overlords, Tony Blair is sounding ever more like George Bush when it comes to his religion.
The pamphlet, produced by a group called In Touch Ministries, offers a daily prayer to be made for the US president, a born-again Christian who likes to invoke his God in speeches.
Sunday's is "Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding".
Monday's reads "Pray that the President and his advisers will be strong and courageous to do what is right regardless of critics".
God forbid that he should use the gifts God gave him to come to decisions himself then?
And yesterday it was revealed that Tony Blair really does put God at the heart of his politics when he admitted in an interview that he will be judged on the Iraq war not only by the electorate and the pages of history but by 'my Maker'.
It makes me uneasy that world policy is being decided by two such men of 'faith', though I'm aware that such an argument can be made against Islamic heads of state, or atheists. But it suggests an abnegation of responsibility, after all, serial killers often think they're doing God's work too. And considering Blair's craven attempts to make sure that the legal position on the UK involvement of the destruction of Iraq was that it was legal and his desperate attempts to try and get the UN onside suggests that at the time the consequences for his immortal soul weren't top of the list.
And the beauty of the final result being between Blair and his maker is that, as far as we are aware, if such a thing happens it's a private meeting. If such a thing does happen after death and all the people of the world, including those that died under the bombs of the Allies, had a ringside seat to see it, what an event that would be!
The pamphlet, produced by a group called In Touch Ministries, offers a daily prayer to be made for the US president, a born-again Christian who likes to invoke his God in speeches.
Sunday's is "Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding".
Monday's reads "Pray that the President and his advisers will be strong and courageous to do what is right regardless of critics".
God forbid that he should use the gifts God gave him to come to decisions himself then?
And yesterday it was revealed that Tony Blair really does put God at the heart of his politics when he admitted in an interview that he will be judged on the Iraq war not only by the electorate and the pages of history but by 'my Maker'.
It makes me uneasy that world policy is being decided by two such men of 'faith', though I'm aware that such an argument can be made against Islamic heads of state, or atheists. But it suggests an abnegation of responsibility, after all, serial killers often think they're doing God's work too. And considering Blair's craven attempts to make sure that the legal position on the UK involvement of the destruction of Iraq was that it was legal and his desperate attempts to try and get the UN onside suggests that at the time the consequences for his immortal soul weren't top of the list.
And the beauty of the final result being between Blair and his maker is that, as far as we are aware, if such a thing happens it's a private meeting. If such a thing does happen after death and all the people of the world, including those that died under the bombs of the Allies, had a ringside seat to see it, what an event that would be!
