Why Pagans should support George W. Bush -- Beliefnet.com

Why Pagans should support George W. Bush -- Beliefnet.com

In my last entry, I said that I couldn't understand how people could be pagans and support Bush, but I seem to have missed one important factor... Glaring Inconsistencies! This article is rife with them. Somehow, the author, who claims to be pagan, glosses over the terrible environmental problems Bush has caused, the poor economy, and human rights violations from Bush's former 4 years of the presidency, and focused on the stump speech/talking points that the right wing media spews out. The author has no problem with innocent Iraqis getting killed, but does have a problem with abortions. I'll tell you, I don't like abortions, but I know they're going to happen, so I'd prefer to have them legal, because it will result in less crime and less death. I don't approve of killing innocent people in Iraq just because a small percentage of people might have anti-american and anti-christian ideals. I'm pretty sure most of the people in the country wouldn't approve of my spiritual ideas, but I think they'd be civil enough to have a live and let live policy about it, as long as I don't try to change them. The author seems to really be holding on to a lot of christian ideals. That's fine, there's a good deal of merit in christianity, but to call upon christian ideals is somewhat less-than-pagan. It can be great for a world-religion point-of-view, or from a general moral point of view to bring up the beliefs of another faith, but that's like using something the Buddha said to support something Jesus said... it's more of an interfaith approach than an argument from that faith's ideals... and some people are bound not to take it so well. It also displayed (not surprisingly) some anti-homosexual ideals. The author claims to not have a problem with gays, but doesn't seem to really believe what she says (I think it's a she...). From my point of view, this seems to be a quite distorted view of paganism. I can admit that often, my views on matters political and moral deviate from the party line of most organizations, but I can't really understand how this person can believe that pagan ideals are the same as conservative ideals... This article has some serious issues.