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United States: Fun Neal Pollack article in The Stranger about President Bush's kooky religious beliefs.
This is also the kind of country where the president meets with the members of a radical, far-right millennialist Christian sect three weeks before he counteracts all known international law and opinion regarding the Israeli-Palestinian situation. That sect, known as the Apostolic Congress, opposes any deal with the Palestinians because it believes that Christ won't return to Earth until all of Israel belongs to the Jews and Solomon's temple is rebuilt.
Church & State - The Stranger, 10th June 2004 (via BoingBoing).
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1: Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | June 17, 2004 2:58 PM
What is so unusual about this? Most fundamentalist Christians believe in a "biblical Israel" before the second coming can happen.
2: Posted by: Glenn McGaha Miller | June 17, 2004 3:41 PM
Andrew Ian Dodge is correct... and I say this as someone who believes exactly this though my church doesn't have a name quite as inflamatory sounding as "Apostolic Congress". Though I'm unfamiliar with the group, I'm guessing "we" might be considerably more mainstream than them. We do still advocate hetrosexual marriage, marital fidelity, and encourage people not to murder unborn children, so we likely can be thrown in with all other "Christian fundamentalists" in that regard.
I might add that you and BoingBoing have the emphasis a tad incorrect: Its not so much that Jesus won't return until these things happen as it is these things will happen prior to Jesus' returning. Neither W. nor liberal angst nor pagan derision will impact the outcome.
3: Posted by: Red Wolf | June 18, 2004 12:02 AM
Generally, the fundamentalists just stand about on street corners telling all and sundry that they're going to heaven and the rest of us heathen filth are going to rot in some creative hell. The big difference this time is that they have the ear of a serious wingnut, with access to lots of money and firepower, who is willing to help them create the conditions prophesised.
None of these people seem to give a shit about who they murder to achieve their aims. It's an interesting belief system that demands that the lives of unborn children are sacred, but those who are already walking around are cannon fodder in the name of their invisible friend. Just a touch hypocritical.
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