Freitag, Januar 21, 2005

Here's a short transcript from Bush's inaugural speech yesterday:

There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

[...] The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

Awww...inspiring isn't it? Well, it's wrong, too.
The only force of history that can do that is the love of Jesus Christ. Sorry, but human freedom is NOT the fix-it-all. Humans, given freedom, will NOT automatically go to peace together. That'd be nice, but it just won't happen. The problem is that Bush is apparently assuming humans are actually peaceful by nature, and so just give them enough freedom, and there'll be peace.
Don't get me wrong, freedom is definetly necessary for peace, but that's not what Bush is saying - he's going beyond that, putting human political freedom up as salvation for mankind. And that's what's wrong.

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