"If you believe in Armageddon, you don't need to save the planet."

[Bluebear]

Is this what Bush meant when answering what history will think of him: "History? We'll all be dead!"


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The Christian Right's fundamental problem
Perspective
By Terry Lane
April 10, 2005

If you believe in Armageddon, you don't need to save the planet. That's a concern if you also influence the White House and US foreign policy.

...Does it matter to us that there are 70 million Bible-believing, born-again Christians in the US who believe the second coming of Jesus is imminent? There are two consequences of having so many Christian fundamentalists near the levers of power in imperial America.

First, it is a precondition of the return of Jesus that all Jews return to Israel and that the territory of that country should coincide with that promised to Abraham by God. Until Israel retakes its promised land, expels all the Arabs and welcomes back all the Jews of the diaspora, Jesus can't come.

The so-called Christian Zionists are influential. According to The Christian Science Monitor they "have access to the White House and strong support within Congress, including the backing of the two most recent majority leaders in the House of Representatives". In Genesis, God promises Abraham all the land "from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates", an area which includes a part of Egypt, a large slice of Iraq and Syria, not to mention all the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. There is no room for Arabs in this promised land.

Village Voice reporter Rick Perlstein came into possession of "an email we weren't meant to see" describing a meeting between the extremist Apostolic Congress and the National Security Council director for Near East and North African Affairs, Elliott Abrams.
Calling itself the Christian voice of the nation's capital, the Apostolic Congress opposes the withdrawal of Israeli settlements from Gaza because it opposes the surrender of any of the territory God promised to the Jews. Three weeks after the meeting President George Bush changed US policy and approved expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Apostolic Congress leader Pastor Robert Upton boasts: "We're in constant contact with the White House. I am briefed at least once a week."....

More at

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/The-Christian-Rights-fundamental-problem/2005/04/09/1112997220229.html

[Terran1212]

1. I REALLY hope peeps don't really think like that...

[Bluebear]

2. Oh, they surely do

That is one of the reasons we have what we have.

[0rganism]

4. Can you say "James Watt"? I knew you could

Ronald Reagan's Secratary of the Interior, for those who've forgotten, or naturally confuse him with the 19th C innovator of similar name.

SoI Watt is/was just the sort of bloke who epidomizes the belief system described in the article. Today, we have SoI Gail Norton, one of SoI Watt's protege's overseeing our environment. True to form, this roadapple has not fallen far from the tree.

[coloradodem2005]

3. Well. That is just lovely.

Hopefully, they will be raptured to the 7th circle of Hell.

[Bluebear]

5. I do wish they would hurry!

:hi:

[XOKCowboy]

6. Want to be really scared?

http://rapturewatch.cephasministry.com/ Go here and check out some of the stories and links. They can make the bible say and mean anything that they want to believe.

I grew up on Oklahoma in the shadow of Oral Robert's praying hands. I got a first hand look at these extremists and they're not kidding.

[BuyingThyme]

7. The truth about Jewish and Christian fundamentalism:

Prophecies are not predictions. They are marching orders.