Manufactured Rapture – Armaggedon Equals Corruption
By JP Briggs II, Ph.D., and Thomas D. Williams
t r u t h o u t | Special Report Friday 29 June 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
Sphere: Related ContentPresident 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.
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Hats off to Truthout for a supurbly researched article that scares the HELL out of me!
June 30th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Excellent article.
It is the low-functioning among us who get into this end-times stuff, GWB being a perfect example. It’s a vehicle to an exaggerated sense of their own importance, that they above all others know Truth. They are to be pitied…and stopped.
July 1st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Great post Bosskitty, you gals over here are kickin butt, with so many informative articles. I can barely keep up. But am loving the quality and content.
Organized Religion is a hazard. Our right to freedom of religion is a treasure. Believe what ever you to, but keep it out of public policy. The latest trend with the extremists in our own society and their insistence on inserting “god” into everything from War, to “Faith Based” Social Service programs. Makes me think they should be taxed. When they overtly medal in the voting choices or sliming of particular candidates. Let the individual apply their own values and do their own research about who they want to vote for, anything less, is crossing the line between Church and State. We are supposed to have secret ballots. And i remember a time, when asking someone who they voted for, was actually a deeply personal question. I also remember a time, when we the comfort of knowing our votes would be counted.
People whose beliefs include universial love , peace and justice do engage themselves politically as value driven individuals,not with flashing neon saying my church or MY GOD told me to vote this way or that the rapture is coming..blah blah blah. Theocracy and Democracy do not mix.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Mirth, this whole country has become dysfunctional, low is the result. The literate among us have an awesome responsibility to become REALLY active.
Proud, Thanks for the kudos. I have become more insane daily about the whole church thing. They harder they push, the more disgusting the New Christianity becomes. Unfortunately, Christianity isn’t the only religion that has Morphed into disaster. Mind control is everything to these religions now. If only these was a safe place to stand back and watch the destruction as a spectator sport instead of desperately fighting for control of our own minds.