The Savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience; a readiness to attempt the impossible; a bias for simple solutions — to cut the knot rather than unravel it; the viewing of compromise as surrender; the tendency to manipulate people and “experiment with blood.”
Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Eric Hoffer
Reflections on the Human Condition
This assumes Bush is a man of faith. Whose word do we have for that? Only his. Has his word in any other matter ever turned out to be worth a fart in a whirlwind? The very thought is an insult to farts.
Posted by: Aitch Jay on April 20, 2007 1:14 PMWho assumed Bush was a man of faith? He's the head honcho Faith Pimp. Haven't you heard him say it was hard work doing what he does? Hell, that crowd in Hollywood handed out an award for a song written for hard working pimps like George.
Posted by: Buck on April 20, 2007 2:22 PM