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The Bishop’s Unchristian Prayer
Even though he is a bishop in the Episcopal Church, Gene Robinson promised that he would not offer a Christian prayer at the inaugural celebration. Today he lived up to his word. At the opening inaugural festivities, not only did the Bishop fail to offer a Christian prayer, he began his supplication by addressing a false god—one that he called the “God of our many understandings.” In one sentence, he endorsed the idolatry that is endemic to the human condition—the idea that god is whoever we imagine him to be. There’s no question that the warnings of Romans 1:18-31 apply here. The rest of the prayer is filled with liberal…
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Washington Post Editorial on Bush’s Legacy
Yesterday’s Washington Post editorial about President Bush’s legacy has a surprisingly positive assessment of his efforts in Iraq. In short, the editors conclude that history will render a more favorable judgment than current surveys of popular opinion: “As matters in Iraq now stand, there is a decent chance of a reasonably pro-American incipient democracy in the heart of the Arab Middle East. This would be a major accomplishment, and one that would cast the invasion, the failures of the early years of occupation and the painful loss of more than 4,000 American lives and many thousand more Iraqi lives in a different light than the one in which they are…
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Bush 41’s Inauguration (1989)
President Bush opened his speech with a prayer.
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Reagan’s First Inauguration (1981)
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Nixon’s 2nd Inauguration (1973)
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JFK’s Inauguration (1961)
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Eisenhower’s First Inauguration (1953)
Eisenhower opened his address with prayer.
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Harry Truman’s Inaugural (1945)
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FDR’s First Inaugural Address (1933)