More Education or More Guns?

Waking this morn I lazily made my way down to the kitchen for breakfast to find the Minneapolis Star Tribune sitting on the table as usual. Turning through the pages I came across a story that caught my attention. Here is a link to the story: Bush vetoes spending bill

This was an unsettling way to start one's day! This just shows what kind of person George W. Bush is. Instead of supporting a bill that would help fund education, labor and health programs within our country, he decides to give our country more guns so that we can send more young people overseas to be killed in an unpopular and unsuccessful war! How can we support a man that does this? This is not wise leadership in my opinion.

Bush claims to be a "born again" Christian, which I cannot judge whether or not that is true. I may have some assumptions, but God is the only one that knows a person's hearts truly. Yet, I cannot possibly conceive someone who desires to live in the ways of Jesus Christ to make many of the decisions that Bush and the leadership in our country have made. This type of "Christian practice" is what has drawn me away from mainstream, conservative, western Christianity. This "health and wealth" gospel is far from what Christ has taught us. Christ called us to be different, to change the world for the better.

Is the image of the war in Iraq portraying this idea of difference? Some say that it is; that we are liberating the Iraqi people. I think it is too hard to distinguish bullshit from truth with our media today, and so one must take what evidence is given them and make their decision based upon what facts they believe to be true. I believe the cries and pleadings of the Iraqi people to end this war is evidence enough to get our troops out and establish some type of peace. PEACE. What a wonderful concept--what a complex concept--what an almost impossible concept. We must try, though! Otherwise, who will?