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'End Timers' Urge Bush - 'Bring on God's Nuclear Doomsday' and Rapture to Heaven for the Faithful

Comment by Larry Ross, July 2, 2007

Yet another brilliant article explaining the dark, suicidal, nightmarish religious bunkum, which is the underbelly of Bush's threatening, self-destructive war policies. It also explains his slavishly pro-Israeli policies. It explains how and why the Bush regime is moving the world toward some kind of nuclear doomsday in the Middle East. Bush can trigger a nuclear doomsday with a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Iran, as urged by Vice President Cheney and many others and warned about in many expert papers on our site under US War on Iran & Syria. This new nuclear doctrine was approved by the US Congress, as well as Bush's presidential right to introduce nuclear weapons into a conventional weapon conflict.

Bush's 'End Times' supporters believe this would be the biblical Armageddon, as foretold in an obscure passage in the Bible. They believe Bush is God's chosen one, and are urging him to make it all happen. They believe it will result in a rapture of the chosen faithful few to heaven. Almost everything Bush has done in the Middle East, and not done, is consistent with these religious bunkum beliefs.
 
Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of all this is why the mass media are encouraging this crazy trend. They repeat the outright lies about Iran, and it's alleged nuclear threat to the US and Israel, but never mention the influence religious crazies have on Bush and US foreign policy. By avoiding the facts and discussion of the disastrous consequences that may follow such an attack, they can pretend the plan to make war on Iran is based on fact. But it is based on religious nonsense and the same kind of lies they repeated to justify Bush's war on Iraq . They carefully avoid any articles or discussion about the religious background to Bush's political thinking and war policies, and what Bush really believes.
 
One of the most important aspects of this article is documenting the influence of irrational , religiously-bastardised and un-Christian beliefs on Bush and the political decisions of his Administration. 'End-Times' theology has wedded 'Neo-conservatism' to create extreme and powerful pressures for a nuclear war on Iran. These people may be crazy, but they are also cunning, dedicated and deeply committed. They work 24/7 for their cause and give huge donations to religious institutions and 'Think Tanks' to make it happen. Normal people give nothing, watch sport and celebrities on TV, and get on with life. Even intelligent liberals are not concerned enough to take any action. So naturally the dedicated crazies, backed by impressive wealth, are winning.

The 'End Timers' are much like the Exclusive Brethren, working and donating 'big time' to right wing political parties, because they believe such parties are more likely to bring on an 'end times' nuclear war - a common belief among the many different types of Christian Fundamentalists.

The religious nutters, and the media, are cunning enough to use the politically acceptable language of the day to justify their cause, rather than the 'End-Times' theological arguments which would get them dismissed by the majority as dangerous raving maniacs.
 
Although the whole situation seems laughable, improbable and a bit of a joke, it's no joke. A set of ancient myths, mixed with crazy twisted interpretation, has infected America, American politics, and is even seeping into the rest of the world. It's become a deadly reality moving us all toward a nuclear Armageddon.
 
Professor JP Briggs II, Ph.D. (see credentials that follow) has done an outstanding job. His extensive documentation cannot be dismissed. It merits the deepest consideration by anyone concerned about the direction and future existence of our world.
 
More about this topic can be found on our website under: Dangers of Fundamentalism or a Google search which gave 1,710,000 articles for End Times Theology.

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Bush, Mideast Wars and End-Time Prophecy

by JP Briggs II, Ph.D., and Thomas D. Williams, t r u t h o u t, June 29, 2007

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."
- Former US President Thomas Jefferson

    President George W. Bush has become dangerously steeped in ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse, an imminent war with Satanic forces in the Middle East, and an urgency to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God's end-of-days plan, according to close observers.

    Historians and investigative journalists following the "end-time Christian" movement have grown alarmed at the impact it may be having on Bush's Middle East policies, including the current war in Iraq, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian crisis, the strife in Lebanon and the administration's repeated attempts to find a cause for war against Iran.

    Many people are aware that Bush is "the most aggressively religious president in American History," as eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. described him, (Schlesinger, "War and the Presidency," 143) but most remain without a clue to what this actually means.

    One piece of evidence is Bush's funneling billions of dollars to "faith-based" organizations. Faith offices making grants are now so widespread inside government agencies that federal watchdog officials have serious difficulties accounting for how much money has actually been spent. (Goldberg, "Kingdom Coming" 121). Marvin Olasky, a devotee of end-time theology, designed Bush's faith-based welfare concept . See also Goldberg, "Kingdom Coming," 110.

    Further evidence is the Bush administration's transformation of the military. Until complaints forced its removal, a religious recruitment video made by a group called the Christian Embassy appeared on the Department of Defense web site. The video included interviews made inside the Pentagon with seven high-ranking military officers, congressmen, other federal officials and even the Christian Ethiopian ambassador to the US about their personal relationship with Christ . Army Lt. General William "Jerry" Boykin made headlines in 2003 when he said he believed America was engaged in a holy war as a "Christian nation" battling Satan. Adversaries can be defeated, he said, "only if we come against them in the name of Jesus." Despite his highly publicized rhetoric, Boykin remains Bush's deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence.

    Beneath Bush's benign-sounding words, "faith" and "Christian," lies the deeper reality of the authoritarian, doomsday religious beliefs of the ministers and spiritual counselors that surround him, say experts. Officially he has been at pains to show an openness traditionally expected of an American president. Typical is his assertion in a speech at a National Prayer Breakfast found on the White House website: "There's another part of our heritage we are showing in Iraq, and that is the great American tradition of religious tolerance. The Iraqi people are mostly Muslims, and we respect the faith they practice ." However, experts point out the particular brand of Christianity that permeates Bush's environment is anything but tolerant. For example, Bush's own personal minister, Franklin Graham, has called Islam "evil and very wicked." He has said, "Let's use the weapons we have, the weapons of mass destruction if need be, and destroy the enemy ."

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