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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: ForYourEyesOnly who wrote (5178)2/4/2003 10:07:32 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
The writer has only a shallow knowledge of his subject - dispensationalism.

A lot of my relatives would be included in this broad category. So I think I know more about the subject and the people who believe it than Justin Raimondo. Personally, I think trying to predict the future using the Book of Revelation is impossible.

all those trailer park "Christians" who give money to Pat Robertson.

The writer's ignorance is made worse by being combined with his snobbish class prejudice.

They pine for a nuclear Armageddon because it will fulfill their "prophecies."

No they don't "pine" for nuclear Armageddon. A much better argument could be made that fear of a nuclear Armageddon predisposes them to accept biblical interpretations which assure them they can escape it via a supernatural rapture.

The followers of a genocidal "Christian" heresy, who number in the millions,

Since he's talking about dispensationalism, he should have said tens of millions, many tens of millions.

..are determined to drive their country into World War IV. They just can't wait for that mushroom cloud to billow up over the horizon

Nothing could be further from the truth. While they think a nuclear Armageddon is in the future, nobody is eagerly anticipating it. Dispensationalists are just as afraid of this as anyone else. If they looked forward to nuclear Armageddon they'd join with the peace movement and help them delay the removal of Saddam till after he's developed nuclear weapons.
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