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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (222523)3/5/2007 12:02:46 PM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Yes. "Kill a gook for God" comes to mind. The embodiment of evil, imo.

Most Christians don't read the Scriptures for themselves. The Armageddon crowd thinks that Christ won't return until the Jews are gathered and the Temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem.
They support everything the nation of Israel does. The Arab world is basically evil and will spawn the anti-Christ.

These notions are scripturally inaccurate.

The scriptures claim that the Temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and the anti-Christ will sit in it. The implication here is that the anti-Christ is more likely to be Jewish than to be Arab. Arabs wouldn't tear down their own mosque and rebuild a Jewish temple on the site.

The scriptures also state that the "new Jerusalem" will descend from Heaven and that God himself will gather the Jews.
The implication here, obviously, is that Jews and their Christian-Zionist supporters are going against God's plan if they 'capture Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple' as a prerequisite for Christ's return.

I do believe, however, that the Armageddon crowd is not getting their ideas from the pulpit. It's a philosophy that originally emerged from a misreading of the Book of Revelations, was fleshed out by a string of popular fiction books, and has taken on a life of its own.

Since it's used to shape public attitudes toward Islam and the Arab world, it's inherently evil, imo.
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