What code words?

[drmom]

From the homepage of DU today, the first article says

"Bush often uses code words familiar to his critical evangelical base that fly under the radar of mainstream, moderate Christians. Still, it does not seem to be too cynical to believe that Bush's supposed religion is simply a ploy to gain votes from the rubes among fundamentalist Christians. Or if he is a religious man, few genuine Christians would believe that his God was the one they pray to."

I'm definitely one of those who's radar is being flown under (hey...I'm finally mainstream!)...anyone know what "code words" to listen for?

[oldhat]

1. "Code" words from the Bible

This is a good article from last week's New Yorker. There's a little bit about the "code" words. Read the rest of it, it's good.

Also, do you read the New York Review of Books (not the New York Times Book Review)? There are a couple of good articles about Bush and Christian evangelism that touched on this topic.

Anyway, here's the link and the quote:

http://newyorker.com/critics/books/?040712crbo_books

Bush has not been shy about displaying his faith. Shortly after September 11, 2001, the President came across Proverbs 21:15: “When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.” Soon, “evildoers” became his favorite term for Al Qaeda. Bush’s speechwriter, Michael Gerson, himself an evangelical, laces the President’s addresses with seemingly innocuous terms that the devout recognize as laden with meaning: “whirlwind,” “work of mercy,” “safely home,” “wonder-working power.” Phillips refers to a study by the religion scholar Bruce Lincoln, who identified, in Bush’s speech to Congress announcing the invasion of Afghanistan, allusions to Revelation, Isaiah, Job, Matthew, and Jeremiah. In private, Bush has been even more explicit. “George sees this as a religious war,” a family member told the Schweizers. “He doesn’t have a p.c. view of this war. His view of this is that they are trying to kill the Christians. And we the Christians will strike back with more force and more ferocity than they will ever know.” Phillips says that Bush has spoken of himself as an instrument of divine will.

[oldhat]

2. Kick

This is important -- a way to gain understanding about how the Bushies operate.

[kat21]

3. No, but I'm sure they only contain one syllable

[Bluebear]

4. "Family values"

Last week he assured a West Virginia group that the "Senator from Massachusetts doesn't share their heartland values." Conjuring up all sorts of liberal depravity.

[T Bone]

5. A Servant's Heart ??

and other short phrases with 'heart' in them.

I think that is fundie code of some sort, from what I am seing in a local campaign. It seems to be very subtle. Keep in mind we were never bombarded with 'Heartland' until Junior and the Bionic Dick hit the whitehouse, too.

[Bluebear]

6. "They know his heart."

Cheney just got off some gobbledegook about some group or the other "knowing Bush's heart"....good catch.

[yardwork]

7. I strongly recommend that everyone read Revelation in the Bible

It's the last book in the New Testament. Read it and I think you will see where Bush* is getting most of his ideas and language. Yes, it sounds like the writer must have been on drugs. There are various scholarly explanations for Revelation, but the fundamentalists certainly haven't read them. They react in a lizard-brain sort of way. A quick read through will give you everything you need to know to understand their point of view. And it ain't pretty.

Continue your research with a read through some early books in the Old Testament - perhaps Genesis (later sections) and Leviticus. That's where the fundies get their notions about homosexuality, women's role, etc.

The fundamentalists use these three sections of the Bible for most of the text of their beliefs.

[TrustingDog]

8. we now know who the whore of babylon is... n/t