Now that he doesn’t need the evangelicals to get elected (and now that John McCain doesn’t need them either), George W. Bush can safely say [1] the the Bible is “probably not literally true.”
In a recent interview on ABC with Charles Gibson, Bush freely admits that Muslims can go to heaven. [2]
CHARLES GIBSON:Do Christians and non-Christians and Muslims go to heaven in your mind?
President Bush: Yes, they do. We have different routes of getting there.
Bush also that belief in God is compatible with the theory of evolution. [1]
Here’s some advice for the next time fundamentalists try to get a politician to give assent to something absurd, such as their claim that the Bible, which is obviously riddled with contradictions and vague passages, is “literally true.” Or when fundamentalists who haven’t any inkling of the mechanism of natural selection, try to convince a politician that natural selection has no factual basis. That politician should tell such fundamentalists to go to hell.
The circumstances suggest that Bush is now speaking what he believes. Consider, though, the damage caused to science curricula by the fundamentalists over the past eight years. Consider also the massive number of harsh words spoken and written in our eight-year culture war.
Like the Iraq debacle, it could have all been prevented with a bit of honesty.
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