Sept. 13, 2006:
Bush spouts crazy Christian "Third Awakening" crap| |
Excerpt: President Bush said Tuesday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil."
Bush told a group of conservative journalists that he notices more open expressions of faith among people he meets during his travels and suggested that might signal a broader revival similar to other religious movements in history. Bush noted that some of President Abraham Lincoln's strongest supporters were religious people "who saw life in terms of good and evil" and believed slavery was evil. Many of his own supporters, he said, see the current war in similar terms.
"A lot of people in America see this as a confrontation between good and evil, including me," Bush said during a long, musing discussion of cultural changes and a battle with terrorists that he sees lasting decades. "There was a stark change between the culture of the '50s and the '60s - boom - and I think there's change happening here," he added. "It seems to me that there's a Third Awakening."
Comment: Maybe the reason that Bush senses more religiosity in the people around him is that always he surrounds himself with supporters ... which now includes the Christian whack-jobs and Dick Cheney.
Madeline Zane PERMANENT LINK
Comment: Bush routinely takes his alleged religious beliefs to a place that looks to me like mental illness. I'm not up to speed on this "Third Awakening", but according to this professor's article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "The present or Third Awakening of Evangelicalism believes all sorts of bizarre things, such as the imminent end of the world, the second coming of Christ, the sudden elevation of the just to heaven and the final struggle of Good versus Evil in Jerusalem: Armageddon. We thus have the immense popularity of the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins."
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Aug. 8, 2006:
Cheering for apocalypse, evangelical lunatics counsel Bush White House| |
Comment: This Christian-Zionist thing sickens me. To work for war to fulfill a prophecy is a heinous sin, and criminal.
To make a comparison to illustrate the point, just because Jesus foretold that he would be betrayed doesn't mean that you would want to be the Judas to betray him. Likewise, to kill thousands, even millions of people hoping that that speeds up the return of Jesus is just sick.
You don't want to be the person responsible for killing those people when Jesus does return!
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Aug. 4, 2006:
Another Rapture writer says he advises White House| |
Comment: Most Americans were raised in Christian families. Nothing wrong with that.
But for some 'Christians', Christ's own teachings are easily discarded. For these believers, the Bible does not have a happy ending, and all of human history is just preamble for the end times. Many of these people see wars in the Middle East as a sign of the coming end times — as "good news." To these people, the more war, the better.
And these are the people advising the White House?
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June 14, 2006:
Sun Myung Moon money flows to Bush family| |
Excerpt: Over the past quarter century, South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon has been one of the Bush family’s major benefactors -- both politically and financially -- while enjoying what appears to be protection against federal investigations into evidence that his cult-like organization has functioned as a criminal enterprise.
Indeed, the newest disclosure about Moon funneling money to a Bush family entity bears many of the earmarks of Moon’s business strategy of laundering money through a complex maze of front companies and cut-outs so it can’t be easily followed. In this case, according to an article in the Houston Chronicle, Moon’s Washington Times Foundation gave $1 million to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, which in turn acted as a conduit for donations to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. |
Oct. 11, 2004:
President or prophet?Excerpt: The religious outlook of George W. Bush has been the focus of recent stories by several major news media. In these pieces White House officials and allies consistently have made the case that Bush’s faith and language are no different from past presidents. In the words of the Rev. Richard Neuhaus in The Washington Post, “This is so conventionally Christian piety and Christian faith” that Bush’s faith is “as American as apple pie.”
That simply is not so. Bush’s fusion of faith and politics is anything but conventional for the presidency.
June 25, 2004:
Religious kook "coronated" by Senators
by Prisoner50X, Unknown News
June 9, 2004:
DC power players hang out with bizarre Korean billionaire Messiah
May 20, 2004:
The religious warrior of Abu GhraibExcerpt: Boykin told an evangelical gathering last year how this fostered his spiritual crisis. "There is no God," he said. "If there was a God, he would have been here to protect my soldiers." But he was thunderstruck by the insight that his battle with the warlord was between good and evil, between the true God and the false one. "I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."
May 18, 2004:
White House checked with rapture Christians
before latest Israel move
Excerpt: "We're in constant contact with the White House," Pastor Robert G. Upton boasts. "I'm briefed at least once a week via telephone briefings. ... I was there about two weeks ago. ... At that time we met with the president."
Our note: Upton is the Executive Director for The Apostolic Congress, "a Spirit-filled, purpose driven movement representing the heartbeat of the Apostolic Community on a national front." It's a "pro-life," "pro-family," and pro-Israel group whose logo (above, left) is modeled after the U.S. Presidential Seal.
Their website boasts, "Today, as a direct result of Pastor Upton and his team, Christians are affecting policy in Washington, and bringing about real change in America."
Their mission statement reads, in part, "We also keep Americas [sic] Christian leaders informed about their role with the current Administration through regular White House briefings."
Another excerpt from the article: "Everything that you're discussing is information you're not supposed to have," barked Upton when asked about the off-the-record briefing his delegation received on March 25. Details of that meeting appear in a confidential memo signed by Upton and obtained by the Voice.
The e-mailed meeting summary reveals NSC Near East and North African Affairs director Elliott Abrams sitting down with the Apostolic Congress and massaging their theological concerns. Claiming to be "the Christian Voice in the Nation's Capital," the members vociferously oppose the idea of a Palestinian state. They fear an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza might enable just that, and they object on the grounds that all of Old Testament Israel belongs to the Jews. Until Israel is intact and Solomon's temple rebuilt, they believe, Christ won't come back to earth. ...
May 6, 2004:
White House prayer meeting broadcast live in prime time| THIS IS THE ENTIRE ARTICLE |
WASHINGTON -- President Bush's participation in a National Day of Prayer ceremony with evangelical Christian leaders at the White House will be shown Thursday night, for the first time in prime-time viewing hours, on Christian cable and satellite TV outlets nationwide. For the president, the broadcast is an opportunity to address a sympathetic evangelical audience without the risk of alienating secular or non-Christian viewers, since it will not be carried in full by any of the major television networks. Frank Wright, president of the National Association of Religious Broadcasters, said more than a million evangelicals are expected to see the broadcast.
April 20, 2004:
Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power
Aug. 17, 2003:
Rice briefs 'Christian Zionists' on Mideast peace planEvangelical Christian officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, left the meeting frustrated that the president, whom they strongly backed in the 2000 presidential primaries in Southern states against Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., does not now seem to be heeding their advice on Israel.
"[Bush] won't need us in the primaries next year," said one evangelical official, "but he will sure need us in the general election."
Aug. 13, 2003:
Is Bush getting apocalyptic advice?
by Jeannette Walls, MSNBC Aug. 13, 2003
Is the Bush administration turning to a televangelist doomsayer for political predictions? Apocalyptic preacher Jack Van Impe is claiming that he was contacted by Condoleezza Rice’s office and the White House Office of Public Liaison for an “outline” of his take on world events.
Van Impe is the author of such books as “Israel’s Final Holocaust” and “The Great Escape: Preparing for the Rapture, the Next Event on God’s Prophetic Clock.”
He has predicted that the end of the world will strike somewhere between 2003 and 2012 and one reviewer has called his TV preaching show with wife Rexella “a fantastically loopy apocalyptic take on the week’s news.”
The issue of the alleged involvement with the Bush administration came up on his Web site when someone asked Van Impe, “Do you think that President Bush, apparently a Christian man, believes and knows he is involved in prophetic events concerning the Middle East and final battle between good and evil?”
“I believe he is a wonderful man,” Van Impe responded, and goes on to say, “I was contacted a few weeks ago by the Office of Public Liaison for the White House and by the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to make an outline. And I’ve spent hours preparing it. I will release this information to the public in September, but it’s in his hands. He will know exactly what is going to happen in the Middle East and what part he will have under the leading of the Holy Spirit of God. So, it’s a tremendous time to be alive.”
“My investigation into it is that there’s no truth to it,” National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack told The Scoop, “but I’m continuing to look into it.”
[Published by MSNBC]
Aug. 12, 2003:
Apocalypse preacher says White House solicits his adviceExcerpt: I am not sure whether [George W. Bush] knows all of the prophecies and how deep of a student he has been in God's Word, but I was contacted a few weeks ago by the Office of Public Liaison for the White House and by the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to make an outline. And I’ve spent hours preparing it. I will release this information to the public in September, but it’s in his hands.
. Who is Jack Van Impe?
. What does Van Impe say about the Rapture? |
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June 27, 2003:
"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them."
—George W. Bush
March 5, 2003:
Bush considers God a key political ally
Feb. 5, 2003:
The GOP's man on the Moon
Unification Church leader and self-proclaimed Messiah builds legacy with support from the Bush administrationExcerpt: On January 19, 2001, one day before George W. Bush was sworn in as President, the Rev. Moon sponsored a prayer luncheon that brought together some 1,700 religious, civic, and political leaders. In the crowd was a bevy of Christian Right luminaries including the Rev. Jerry Falwell; former National Evangelical Association President Don Argue; Trinity Broadcasting Network's Paul Crouch; and the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) president, executive committee president, and CEO, as well as Richard Land, the president of SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
John Ashcroft, who had not yet been confirmed as Attorney General, dropped by and "brought down the house... with a tale of amazing grace," reported a front-page story in The Washington Times. The Rev. Moon addressed the crowd and handed out free copies of one of his books and other Unification church materials.
Aug. 4, 2002:
John Ashcroft: Son of a preacher man, anointed in Crisco Excerpt: Among his colleagues he was still a little strange -- a guy who had his father anoint him with cooking oil from the kitchen before taking office. Cynics dubbed him "The Crisco Kid." And his voting record led the John Birch Society to rank him favorably, right alongside Sen. Jesse Helms.
April 3, 2002:
Are extremist Christians and Zionists trying to force the "Rapture"?
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What is the Rapture?
BeliefNet, a site that seems to be run by sincere,
sane Christians, says this about the Rapture:
What is the Rapture?
According to many Christians, the Rapture is an end-time event when born-again Christians will be "caught up" into the air and meet Christ in the sky. Many believe that this will happen unexpectedly, and people will suddenly rise from their cars or kitchen tables into the sky. At some point after the Rapture, Christ will begin a thousand-year reign.
When will the Rapture occur?
The Rapture will occur at a time related to the tribulation, the seven-year period before the Second Coming of Christ during which the Antichrist will be in power. There are three major schools of thought about when it will occur:
• Pre-tribulation rapture
• Mid-tribulation
• Post-tribulation
Many believe the tribulation period will be a time of famine, disasters, and illness.
What are the biblical references to the Rapture?
The following verses, among others, have been interpreted by some to be evidence of the Rapture:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18: But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Mark 13:26-27: And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Revelation 11:11-12: And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
What will happen to those who are left behind?
Most of humanity will remain on the earth. God will pass judgment on non-believers during the tribulation period. Many predict mayhem for those who are left behind, including mass confusion, airplane and car crashes due to missing drivers and pilots, and rampant crime and lawlessness.
What is the "partial Rapture" theory?
The belief that certain Christians will rise to meet Christ at the beginning of the tribulation. During the tribulation, there will be other periods of Rapture, when more believers will rise in the air to meet Christ.
What will happen after the Rapture/tribulation period?
Christ will begin his thousand-year reign on earth, which will be a time of justice, peace, and joy. When this millennial reign comes to a close, history will end and there will be a "new heaven and a new earth."
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