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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (13266)	2/20/2003 10:54:31 PM
From: Threshold	Respond to of 89467

<Leaders have always invoked God's blessing on their wars, and, in this respect, the Bush administration is simply carrying on a familiar tradition. But when our born-again president describes the nation's foreign-policy objective in theological terms as a global struggle against "evildoers," and when, in his recent State of the Union address, he casts Saddam Hussein as a demonic, quasi-supernatural figure who could unleash "a day of horror like none we have ever known," he is not only playing upon our still-raw memories of 9/11. He is also invoking a powerful and ancient apocalyptic vocabulary that for millions of prophecy believers conveys a specific and thrilling message of an approaching end – not just of Saddam, but of human history as we know it.> and <Abundant evidence makes clear that millions of Americans – upwards of 40 percent, according to some widely publicized national polls – do, indeed, believe that Bible prophecies detail a specific sequence of end-times events. According to the most popular prophetic system, premillennial dispensationalism, formulated by the 19th-century British churchman John Darby, a series of last-day signs will signal the approaching end. Those will include wars, natural disasters, rampant immorality, the rise of a world political and economic order, and the return of the Jews to the land promised by God to Abraham.> These paragraphs, if true and I see some truth there, put us in the same category as the terrorists. I always thought "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Evildoers" had a biblical ring to them. Bush and his gang are narrowing the gap between church and state at an alarming pace. They will also need to rewrite the constitution, as their recent actions are counter to its principles. Is dogma driving both sides of this conflict? I don't care if it's a bible thumper or a koran thumper, the danger level is the same. Only the methods are different.