Wild conjecture about the 2005 gulf coast hurricanes and Bush’s ‘finding god’

In the 2001 Mark Joffe Movie, The Man Who Sued God, Steve Myers (Billy Connolly) sues god after his property is struck by lightning and he is denied an insurance claim on the grounds that the destruction was the result of an 'act of god'. For the small man, the average Joe, a lawsuit is about as far as you can go to press you claims in the modern world, money permitting. But what about the big fish, the president of the most powerful nation in the world?

If there were more Steve Myers' living along the Gulf Coast in the USA I imagine there may be an enormous class action against god. How many insurance claims were rejected on the grounds that the two recent hurricanes were 'acts of god'. But I imagine there was enough good sentiment to see the victims of the hurricane recoup much of the cost of the damage - or at least I hope so.

My question here is not about the insurers however, it is about the hawks in the US government. George Bush junior is allegedly a born again Christian. In the born again vernacular, one would say he has 'found god'. My question is, were the hawkish Bush son to actually find god in a less abstract sense, would he bomb him (assuming god is a him).

If you think about it, were god to be found anywhere in a literal sense it would be the Near East - a reasonable hypothesis given the high number of 'reborns' from the USA that undertake pilgrimages to the area, of course the crusades, and the biblical notion of 'the promised land'. And then of course, god would probably be a dictator, and quite predictably a religious fundamentalist opposed to both the ideals of democracy (the bible is not littered with elections, in fact, the roman baddies of the new testament are the closest we get) and the free market. Gods country is beginning to look a bit like Iran, or Afghanistan (Iraq under Hussein was probably as hostile to the idea of an Islamic state as what Israel is). And then there are those damn hurricanes, those acts of god, which, were god to have a country, would count as the deliberate targeting of civilians, and far worse, the most precious kind of civilians - Americans. He would have to be dealt with as a terrorist.

In much the same way as Bush refused to look closely at US foreign policy after the September 11 attacks, I imagine he would not have looked into the local emergency response protocols, hurricane prediction systems and the like, he would have flown straight out to introduce democracy to the country of god - which would of course have involved bombing, an invasion, the unlawful detention of those defending god's country, and ultimately the appointment of executives from his fathers companies (Carlyle) into top government positions from which they could award the contracts to rebuild the heavenly infrastructure and education systems to their friends back home.

Those hurricanes got me thinking. It seems unlikely that George W has found god, because surely if he had, he would have bombed him to hell by now.

Dre