Jacques Chirac confirms it: Bush is a Christian Dominionist nutjob

[marmar]

via AlterNet:



Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins"

By Clive Hamilton, CounterPunch. Posted May 25, 2009.

Bush explained to French Pres. Chirac that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Mid-East and must be defeated.



The revelation this month in GQ Magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question. Why did he believe he could influence President Bush by that means?

The answer may lie in an alarming story about George Bush's Christian millenarian beliefs that has yet to come to light.

In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France's President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.

In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy:

"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."

Bush believed the time had now come for that battle, telling Chirac:

"This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins".

The story of the conversation emerged only because the Elyse Palace, baffled by Bush's words, sought advice from Thomas Romer, a professor of theology at the University of Lausanne. Four years later, Romer gave an account in the September 2007 issue of the university's review, Allez savoir. The article apparently went unnoticed, although it was referred to in a French newspaper. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/politics/140221/bush's_shocking_biblical_prophecy_emerges:_god_wants_to_%22erase%22_mid-east_enemies_%22before_a_new_age_begins%22/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Well if it helps John Paul II did call Bush

the anti-christ... bear in mind, in Catholic belief there can and have been MANY anti-christ...

I believe John Paul was actually closer to the truth... actually.

[Wednesdays]

2. K&R

:kick:

[struggle4progress]

3. Too much booze and coke

[NYC_SKP]

4. GHW Bush's Skull and Bones nickname was "Magog"...

(snip)

The name Magog is traditionally assigned to the incoming Bonesman deemed to have had the most sexual experience, and Gog goes to the new member with the least sexual experience. William Howard Taft and Robert Taft were Magogs.

So, interestingly, was George Bush.

George W. was not assigned a name but invited to choose one. According to one report, nothing came to mind, so he was given the name Temporary, which, it is said, he never bothered to replace; Temporary is how Bush's fellow Bonesmen know him today. (In recent interviews I asked a number of Bush's Bonesmen classmates about the name and elicited no denials.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200005/bush-skull-bones

:P

[MrScorpio]

5. I wonder if Chirac asked Bush what's the Pentagon's plan for Gog and Magog

A non-NATO military partner should be kept in the loop.

[OHDEM]

6. Is that a joke?

Sorry if I'm thick, but I find that unbelievable!

[OKIsItJustMe]

7. The "Left Behind" series was supposedly quite popular in the Bush White House

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/5939999/reverend_doomsday/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/05/60minutes/main598218.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/article/jp-briggs-ii-phd-and-thomas-d-williams-bush-mideast-wars-and-end-time-prophecy
http://www.isebrand.com/article_america_left_behind.htm

[Trocadero]

10. oh - I didn't realize there was a coloring book version

[JHB]

11. It certainly was merchandised enough that there may be one...

...and if not, there was the comic-book version, and the movie...

[progressoid]

8. That's redundant.

ALL Dominionists are nutjobs

[Trocadero]

9. this scares the shit out of me

[Enthusiast]

12. Once a person embraces these

end times beliefs they never let it go.