Why does it bother some that George Bush is Christian?

[The_Rorschach]

"Can anyone find any passage in the Bible that actually endorses war?"

Yeah, just about everywhere in the Old Testament. Starting in Geneis when the Jews returned from bondage in Egypt to Canaan, God instructed them to wage not only war, but a genocidal campaign, against all of the inhabitants. Now, to Christians, this is somewhat understandable as those inhabitants were Nehphalim, and therefore abhorrations to the natural order of things. I doubt you would understand though -Not being pompous, simply understanding the Christian perspective tends to accept what God does even when it defies explaination. Not something a modern, critical mind often finds acceptable.

Let me see if I can try and explain anyway though.

One has to understand God does not love the world, John 3:16 is not what most people believe it is. The word translated 'World' is the greek word 'kosmos.' It signifies something like an order, a system. What the verse is saying is that God loved the world that He created, the original system He put in place before the the introduction of Sin. What exists now, and has as long as human history, is like a twisted, darkened version of His work and He has no trouble destroying it. All at once, as with the Flood, or a little at a time, as with Sodom and Gomorrah.

So yeah, is Bush a Christian? Well, only God can judge that.