Donald Rumsfeld's Golden Rule

[Valin]

Real Clear Religion:

Nicholas G. Hahn III

8/5/13

 

Donald Rumsfeld is normally tight-lipped about religion. When President George W. Bush asked him to begin a cabinet meeting with a prayer, it came as a surprise, as he "had never been one to wear my faith on my sleeve," he admits in his memoir Known and Unknown.

 

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Donald Rumsfeld's faith is also product of where he grew up, in the now well-to-do suburb of Winnetka. It's no surprise to Martin Marty, emeritus professor at the University of Chicago and a historian of American religion, that Rumsfeld grew up in a mainline Protestant church. "Every suburb has one," Marty says. At our country's founding, Congregationalists "were the establishment" -- the Mainline. Congregationalists are like Presbyterians except "very suspicious of Bishops" and "very legalistic." The kind you'd find in Northern suburbs like Rumsfeld's would be "embarassed by revival" and "weren't for Billy Graham" when the evangelist held his many big tent crusades to add to America's swelling born-again population.

 

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His son Nick's drug addiction was not the least of Rumsfeld's problems then. He had a war to manage. It was a war that many allege has caused significant displacement of Christians in the Middle East. Rumsfeld blames Islamists in Iraq and elsewhere for that. They aren't tolerant, he says, and that "lack of tolerance creates a danger for Christians, as well as Jews and people of other faiths."

 

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[righteousmomma]

Very interesting, Valin. All new information about Rumsfeld to me.

Thanks.

[nickydog]

I agree. Thanks, @Valin.

[Valin]

@righteousmama, @nickydog

 

 

What did you think of the part where he talked about killing cute little puppies, and the satanic rituals he took part in with George W and Dick Cheney?

 

Don Rumsfeld using his Jedi powers to spread his message of hate.