Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite: Bush's Tortured Morality - On Faith at washingtonpost.com

Bush, like most Republicans, has a strange and tortured view of religion. Theirs is the only interpretation available, and it is usually self-serving.



Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite: Bush's Tortured Morality - On Faith at washingtonpost.com: "President Bush's rigid moral certainty has left him no room to see the contradictions between torture and goodness. This rigid moral certainty made it possible for this man, who claims to be a serious person of faith, to have as his legacy the sustained and deliberate policy to torture prisoners and to render them to 'black ops' sites outside the United States for horrific maltreatment.
The world has a different definition of America's moral standing. On May 4, 2004, the graphic pictures of prisoners being tortured at the now infamous Abu Ghraib prison raced around the world. What the world saw was the face of the United States, not as the symbol of freedom and democracy, but as a nation turned rogue state like Argentina under its military junta, South Africa under Apartheid, or Germany in the Nazi era."