The Divine Right of Bush is a concept used by the Christian Right and other Conservatives which states that George W. Bush owes his victory not to the American People, but to God. Opposing Bush would mean that you are opposing the Will of God.

  1. Medieval Roots
  2. Today
    1. Charles Colson
    2. Richard Land
    3. Paul Weyrich
    4. Jim Rogers
    5. Bob Jones III
    6. White House official Tim Goeglein


Medieval Roots

  • The concept of the Divine Right comes from the Middle Ages. It meant that a monarch owes his rule to the will of God, not to the will of his subjects, the parliament, the aristocracy or any other competing authority. This doctrine continued with the claim that any attempt to oppose, depose, or to cut back on the powers of a Monarch ran contrary to the will of God. (1)
  • This concept is very backwards in terms of human civilization, it allowed for rulers to become tyrants who ruled with absolute power and to crush dissent because opponents are opposing the person that God Himself supposedly selected to rule.

Today

Charles Colson

  • "This was Providence. Anybody looking at the 2000 election would have to say it was a miraculous deliverance, and I think people felt it again this year... (God) is giving us a chance to repent and to restore some moral sanity to American life." (2)

Richard Land

  • "Whoever won, it would have been God's will." (2)

Paul Weyrich

  • "God gave this President and this President's Party one more chance. God heard the fervent prayers of millions of values voters to keep His hand on America one more time despite our national sins of denying the right to life, despite ignoring the Biblical injunction against acts which are 'an abomination unto the Lord' and despite the blatant attempt to remove God from the public square." (2)

Jim Rogers

  • "Yesterday America cried out and He heard from heaven and answered our prayers. PRAISE GOD!!" (2)

Bob Jones III

  • "God has graciously granted America-though she doesn't deserve it-a reprieve from the agenda of paganism." (2)

White House official Tim Goeglein

  • "I think President Bush is God's man at this hour." (2)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Right_of_Kings
(2) http://www.beliefnet.com/story/156/story_15602.html

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