Bush's same god upsets evangelicals
• Wearisome Bedfellows
Myself I don't have any argument with Bush's statement that Christians and Muslims pray to the same Heavenly Fairy. I wonder if Bush's soul ever escaped that clay pot.
Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, agreed.
"The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health while the Muslim God appears to value the opposite," Haggard said in a statement. "The personalities of each God are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad's central message was submission; Jesus' central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities."
Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service: Bush 'Same God' Remark Draws Fire
" Alan Cooperman, The Washington Post: Bush's comments agitate evangelicalsGary Bauer, president of American Values, a conservative public-policy group, said it's unclear what the fallout will be. "But the one thing that's for certain is, it's not helpful to the president. Since everybody agrees he's not a theologian, he would be much better advised to punt when he gets that kind of question," Bauer said.
Sayyid Syeed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America, said: "Alhamdullah (Thanks be to God). We read again and again in the Quran that our God is the God of Abraham, the God of Noah, the God of Jesus. It would not come to the mind of a Muslim that there is a different God that Abraham or Jesus or Moses was praying to.