Thank you for sharing this Dave, very well put. As a United Methodist I’m a bit ashamed to have to claim Mr. Bush as one of us – but the expanse of our theology is wide enought to encompass me so I guess it has to extend to him also, I just wish he believed in following our social principals.

So I did some searching, because I had to know. George W. Bush is a United Methodist. United Methodists generally do not subscribe to the idea of "The Rapture" and other ideas that are central to the belief that true Christians need to engage in holy war to bring about the millenium and the second coming. The United Methodist church’s teachings about the Second Coming of Christ fall along the same lines as those of the older mainline denominations–basically the same thing the Roman Catholic church has been teaching since the days of the original Apostles.

So if there is a vast Christian conspiracy to end the world, I don’t think George W. Bush really is their man. I remain convinced that his warmongering is about oil.

And yes, I’m aware that all of this is well over the head of the average reader of Digg.