simon_says wrote:
It's not just kids but obviously they are the most vulnerable to it.
Bush became born again at 40 (but was probably raised in some vague tradition). Seventeen years later he's calling up the French President to encourage him to join the fight in Iraq by saying, "Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East" and talking about destroying the enemies of god to prepare for the kingdom. The French President had to call up a university professor to understand what Bush was talking about. So adult converts can buy into it pretty deeply themselves.
I think Bush thought he was calling Medieval France.
When I actually thought about what you have written, that's actually pretty terrifying. Someone madder than a sack full of angry badgers with that much power.
Surely he would have had to have been badly abused in childhood to wind up being susceptible to such nonsense.
Being so dumb you would lose a game of scrabble to a squirrel, doesn't help either.
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