Rapture Religionists are Consulted for US Middle East Policies!

[EdwardTking]

Blimey! This is serious.

Fundamentalists Jews encounter Fundamentalist Muslims.
Fundamentalists Christians encounter Fundamentalist Jews & Muslims.
CivFanatics encounters fundamentalist atheist (Curt Sibling).

Someone send for Harry Potter!

 

[Double Barrel]

"fundamentalist atheist"

I've never heard that one before.

 

[test_specimen]

What would a war to convert theists to atheism be called? Jihad, Crusade?

 

[The Last Conformist]

When Pastor Upton was asked to explain why the group's website describes the Apostolic Congress as "the Christian Voice in the nation's capital," instead of simply a Christian voice in the nation's capital, he responded, "There has been a real lack of leadership in having someone emerge as a Christian voice, someone who doesn't speak for the right, someone who doesn't speak for the left, but someone who speaks for the people, and someone who speaks from a theocratical perspective."

When his words were repeated back to him to make sure he had said a "theocratical" perspective, not a "theological" perspective, he said, "Exactly. Exactly. We want to know what God would have us say or what God would have us do in every issue."

Is this guy suicidal, or is it accepted to describe oneself as 'theocratic' in the US?

... Stanley Kurtz, who holds that since gay marriage was legalized in Scandinavia, marriage itself has virtually ceased to exist. (In fact, since Sweden instituted a registered-partnership law for same-sex couples in the mid '90s, there has been no overall change in the marriage and divorce rates there.)

What did we do to be singled out? Norway and Denmark recognized registered partnerships before us, and last I heard they had lower divorce rates than us.

 

[Neomega]

I was raised in terror of the tribulation and rapture. I was raised believing the time was near for 666 to be forced upon our right hands or foreheads. I was raised to fear the UN and the peace symbol.

All of this was real to me in my younger days. Very real. It was real to everyone in my Pentacostal Church. We all believed 100% in the rapture, in the tribulation, in armageddon, in the Book of Revelations.

I know there are millions of people who were raised just like me living in the US right now, interpereting a passage in the bible as one where only the United States and Isreal will stand together against the world in the Battle of Armageddon.

In other words.... the Christian right is a real, deadly, apocalyptic political force, offering black prayers to their god to bring fire and destruction upon the world and prove his existance.... and they definitley have the ear of a very weak minded, malleable president.

 

[Voynich]

The power of the people that support a one state solution in the Israel/Palestine problem is overrated by this source. Groups like these tend to be highly political yet unable to garner mainstream religious support. They do not actually set the foreign policy. Sometimes these theories contradict each other (notably this one and the oil imperialism theory).

 

[CurtSibling]

Nothing like a fundamentalist to get upset about fundamentalism.

Me?
Upset?
Fundamentalist?

Just what did you have in your tea this morning, MrPresident?

 

[CurtSibling]

I was raised in terror of the tribulation and rapture. I was raised believing the time was near for 666 to be forced upon our right hands or foreheads. I was raised to fear the UN and the peace symbol.

All of this was real to me in my younger days. Very real. It was real to everyone in my Pentacostal Church. We all believed 100% in the rapture, in the tribulation, in armageddon, in the Book of Revelations.

I know there are millions of people who were raised just like me living in the US right now, interpereting a passage in the bible as one where only the United States and Isreal will stand together against the world in the Battle of Armageddon.

In other words.... the Christian right is a real, deadly, apocalyptic political force, offering black prayers to their god to bring fire and destruction upon the world and prove his existance.... and they definitley have the ear of a very weak minded, malleable president.

Armageddon religionists are very, very dangerous.
They should be banished back to the parishes the emanated from.
And monitered, then taxed to submission.

If Mr Bush seeks their advice - He is taking a foolhardy chance and insulting the good intentions of the US citizens.

 

[CenturionV]

Originally Posted by Neomega
I was raised in terror of the tribulation and rapture. I was raised believing the time was near for 666 to be forced upon our right hands or foreheads. I was raised to fear the UN and the peace symbol.

All of this was real to me in my younger days. Very real. It was real to everyone in my Pentacostal Church. We all believed 100% in the rapture, in the tribulation, in armageddon, in the Book of Revelations.

I know there are millions of people who were raised just like me living in the US right now, interpereting a passage in the bible as one where only the United States and Isreal will stand together against the world in the Battle of Armageddon.

In other words.... the Christian right is a real, deadly, apocalyptic political force, offering black prayers to their god to bring fire and destruction upon the world and prove his existance.... and they definitley have the ear of a very weak minded, malleable president..

Sad preterist/futurist, pre-premillennialist crap the jesuits really did there job well when they wiped out the traditional protestant historisist/post-millennialist view. Now our people sit around waiting for God to come down outta heaven any day and some big bad boogie man anti-christ (hitler, bush, nero, osama, who knows what other weird stuff these people come up with for there "anti-christ")

And they practically worship the REAL anti-christ sitting on his chair in rome at 84, bubbling on about peace and brotherhood, all the while calling himself christ on earth, with his word on equal with the bible itself. sad, sad times.

 

[polymath]

Anyone who preaches that biblical armageddon is coming should be locked up. It's the babbling of dangerous psychopaths. Neomega is absolutely right....these people want it to happen so they are 'proved' correct.

 

[CurtSibling]

Personally they are welcome to the fate they hope for.

I don't see why the rest of us should be dragged into the picture.

They are exactly the kind of religionist that I deplore - With their macro-judging of all humanity.