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Der Speigel: How the German Intelligencia Perceives Bush and the US.
Sorry kids, were going to have to deal with my high school german translation of der speigel, but its pretty interesting none-the-less.Why Bush must lead this war Weakend by failure complexes, of the fundamentalist God illusion: George Bush is preceived by the Psychocologist and theologian Eugen Drewermann to desire to lead a "better" war than its father. In the interview Der Speigel uses one of the most debated church critics to look into the psyche of the US president. Der Speigel: Mr. Drewermann, US-President George W. Bush often uses often religious images: He speaks of the "axis of evil", In German - this comes out as 'axle of the bad one', I dont think it carries the rhetorical wieght over there that it does here...of the "crusade" against the terror. After the crash of the space shuttle "Columbia" he quoted the Prophet Isiah, he frequently closes he speeches with the formula: "God protects America". Is Bush a convincing Christian? Drewermann: It the kind of rhetoric that betrays its effort to convince the public with religious conceptions of the kind of the exercise of power in particular of the monumental possibilities of a crusade against the bad. Der Speigel: What are the consequences of organizing mankind into properties of good and bad? Drewermann: Such a bipolar viewpoint of history is ideologically extraordinarily dangerous and psychologically almost blind. One avails oneself of the myths of Persian dualism for the reason of an absolute morality. Der Speigel: Do you want to equate Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush? Drewermann: Those who fight like Bush against the terrorism, gives strength to terrorism. The Americans should give an example to the world for effective disarmament, and they should the enormous sums of money, which they invest into the war, begin to the fight against the reasons of the war. The Americans reduced their expenditures for the fight on poverty in the world to 1.7 billion dollars. That is not as much as they spend in two days for the military. there it is folks, its all our fault. Der Speigel: You regard Bush obviously rather as a criminal as a follower of Jesus of Nazareth. Drewermann: who is it that is wishing to avoid war?, who takes the authentication from the 'Sermon on the mount'?.Hundreds of thousands of humans who deliberately to kill, has not understood Christianity, or he has walked away from it. One cannot go over corpses, if one wants to go the way the Christ. Der Speigel: Why does Bush use religious language? Drewermann: It's to win the voices from the American Bible belt. They are the religious ZuengleinSorry, I didnt catch that one at the balance. In the meantime it is usual to present itself as a president with the aura of the "Gods choosen". Within it is the wording of the USA as "God's own country". There one lives in the illusion to possess as large nation of God for the steering of the world fate a special missionary appointment. Hey -we even put it on our money,"in god we trust", quait people aint we. I think I understand why we left europe in the first place Der Speigel: Therefore does the intolerance of the American government cause agitation in relation to the German attitude in the Iraq conflict? wowm the german government calling someone else intolerant. Call me back when they start rebuilding synagoges in berlin. Drewermann: Bush shifts the religious absolutists speech on power-politics, geostrategic and economic goals. Therefore its attitude: "If you are not for us, you are against us". In this situation, the US must have unbelievable hubris. and lots of really big grey ships with airplanes on them.Over a so chauvinististic, illusory religiously motivated speech can only serve to frighten. Der Speigel: Is this attitude of the American government to be due alone to Bush? They keep forgetting about that "voting" thing, as if he just popped up one day. Drewermann: In certain sense Bush is victim of an attitude of the mind, which with the Evangelists, which the political right and the fundamentalists go extraordinarily deep with their Christian values. Beyond that, it has surrounded itself with a fantasy from the time of the Gulf War. Vice President Cheney ascended with oil compainies from Halliburton to the top man at the pentagon, Colin Powell appears moderate, but was however in reality something else. Condoleezza Rice is not an absolutely ambitious lady and preaches anything as war. Paul Wolfowitz inflicts the world with the conception that a war will bring prosperity, democracy and human rights in Iraq. Der Speigel: If fundamentalist positions fasten with Bush, how is its psyche knitted? Drewermann: We may accept Psychoanalysis that the religious foundation depends on the worth of parents. Bush senior had already said 1991 in the first war against the Iraq, the completion of the war could be only the victory of the good. This victory of the good one cost the life in the Iraq alone more than 200,000 people and made hundred of thousands crippled. The embargo politics pressed more than one million humans into death. How can one intone the word "good" in such a cruel way? Der Speigel: Do you want to state in all seriousness, Bushs Iraq politics is a synthesis from father complex and religious fundamentalism? Drewermann: The religious component can have connected itself with the completion of its alcoholism problems. Alcoholics compensate heavy inferiority complexes - Bush applied over years as the failures of the family - by drugs and by loyalty and joviality. For George W. , he merges God and his father into the order to lead a still larger and still better war than his own father - with the assistance of the "father in the sky". Well, atleast he didnt say it was "all about the Oil" Eugen Drewermann Eugen Drewermann, 63, is a most widely read and most debated German theologian. From 1979 to 1991 he taught at the catholic-theological faculty in Paderborn Dogmatik. Then church training permission was extracted from it. One year later it was suspended by the office for priest. Drewermann, who studied Psychoananalysis, published and operates more than 70 books and a psychoanalysis practice. Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-02-13 |
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