The Rapture
Posted by Lurch on August 02, 2006 • Comments (4)Permalink

Don Beasley, at the Middle Earth Journal quoting Pierre Tristam's America Strugles With Its Own Evangelical Taliban:

John Hagee is a Texas evangelical and leader of that hybrid known as the Christian Zionist movement. He commands a huge following and the ear of politicians, Bush among them. Earlier this month Hagee led a rally of 3,500 evangelicals at a Washington hotel, where he called Israel's attacks on Lebanon a "miracle of God" and proof that Israel was doing God's work. Hagee was quoted in The Wall Street Journal as saying that for Israel to show restraint would violate "God's foreign policy statement" toward Jews. Bush sent Hagee a message of praise for "spreading the hope of God's love and the universal gift of freedom."

These people are insane. They are truly in love with death. They will get us all killed. And George Bush is one of them. This is the rationale behind turning Israel loose. They seek the extinction of mankind.

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Posted by: Chuck Cliff at August 3, 2006 04:36 AM

Lurch, saw the article over on Common Dreams.

Such wishing, agitating, even actively working for Ultimate War, the desecration and even the death of Mother Earth along with us her only child – it is an ugly evil thing.

They are false prophets in the exact sense that they claim to understand the word in their skein of warped theology and conflicting delusions.

Doing things in word or deed with the intention of bringing to fruition such delusions for the sake of a Second Coming is the commission of deep and terrible sin against our common humanity.

The role and reward received will not be the one desired or expected and certainly not one to appreciate or covet, for it is the role and reward of Judas Iscariot.

Posted by: Lurch at August 3, 2006 05:12 AM

Chuck, I can understand the desire for suicide. There can come a time when the pain of life grows to be too much to withstand.

But to actively work to kill 6 billion people is nothing but madness. I think most Christian churches condemn suicide in just about all circumstances. As far as I know they all condemn killking other than in real self-defense and the "just war" theme.

Does it seem to you that seeking to bring on The Rapture (tm) is a violation of what Jesus supposedly taught?

Posted by: Gordon at August 3, 2006 03:16 PM

Some 'culture of life', eh?

Posted by: Lurch at August 3, 2006 05:09 PM

And all this time I thought "culture of life" meant eating healthy, with yogurt.

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