budgie
08-07-2005, 07:28 AM
puts on nomex suit and fireman's jacket...
"Let's be clear about the theme and context of these "novels": they're all about how God is going to "rapture" up into the sky all those trailer park "Christians" who give money to Pat Robertson. The rest of us depraved sinners will be left behind. But not before all the world's Jews are gathered together in Israel, where the great battle of Armageddon is supposed to take place – signaling the End of History (Francis Fukuyama, take note!) and the Return of Christ the King. According to the "dispensationalist" con men who preach this clap-trap, Israel will take the place of the Church on earth, and a new "dispensation" (or era) will be inaugurated, as mankind approaches the "End Times."
And they say the Muslims are mired in "medievalism"!"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j020303.html
I'm heading back under my bridge for a while now...
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"Let's be clear about the theme and context of these "novels": they're all about how God is going to "rapture" up into the sky all those trailer park "Christians" who give money to Pat Robertson. The rest of us depraved sinners will be left behind. But not before all the world's Jews are gathered together in Israel, where the great battle of Armageddon is supposed to take place – signaling the End of History (Francis Fukuyama, take note!) and the Return of Christ the King. According to the "dispensationalist" con men who preach this clap-trap, Israel will take the place of the Church on earth, and a new "dispensation" (or era) will be inaugurated, as mankind approaches the "End Times."
And they say the Muslims are mired in "medievalism"!"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j020303.html
I'm heading back under my bridge for a while now...
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