{"id":652,"date":"2004-04-30T01:53:58","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T08:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/on_a_mission_from_god\/"},"modified":"2004-04-30T01:53:58","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T08:53:58","slug":"on_a_mission_from_god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/on_a_mission_from_god.html","title":{"rendered":"ON A MISSION FROM GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>To our regret, we missed <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/jesus\/\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;The Jesus Factor,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> which knocked a friend of ours<br \/>\nout of his chair the other night. But not to worry: <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/\"><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM>&#8220;Frontline&#8221;<\/EM><\/FONT><\/B><\/A> says the whole thing will be posted<br \/>\nSaturday online. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Here&#8217;s a taste: &#8220;On the day that George W. Bush was sworn into his second term as governor<br \/>\nof Texas, friend and adviser Dr. Richard Land recalls Bush making an <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/jesus\/etc\/synopsis.html\"><B><EM><FON\nT color=#003399>unexpected pronouncement<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;The day he was inaugurated there were several of us who met with him at the governor&#8217;s<br \/>\nmansion,&#8221; says Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s Ethics &#038; Religious Liberty<br \/>\nCommission. &#8220;And among the things he said to us was, &#8216;I believe that God wants me to be<br \/>\npresident.'&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Now, we&#8217;ve all heard about&nbsp;the little fucker&#8217;s&nbsp;mission from God before. But<br \/>\nseeing it documented &#8212; with items like his&nbsp;official Texas&nbsp;<A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/jesus\/readings\/jesusdaymemo.html\"><B><\nEM><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Jesus Day&#8221; Proclamation<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> &#8212; is like<br \/>\nbeing catapulted into an adjacent universe, we&#8217;re told. So don&#8217;t forget your seatbelt.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To our regret, we missed &#8220;The Jesus Factor,&#8221; which knocked a friend of ours out of his chair the other night. But not to worry: &#8220;Frontline&#8221; says the whole thing will be posted Saturday online. Here&#8217;s a taste: &#8220;On the day that George W. Bush was sworn into his second term as governor of Texas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}