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Evangelicals - the sect that wants to conquer the world...
It's the fastest growing religious current today. There are already 500 million who believe in Armageddon, the final battle between good and evil. They work through TV, Internet, video games and science fiction novels to make converts en masse. George W. Bush, like several of his Cabinet officers and advisers, shares their messianic vision of the world and the future. To the extreme?
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The crossings of the apocalypse
What to do against a man that has access to a direct line with the Omnipotent one? Who does itself estimate invested of a mission divine? Who believes that the apocalypse is near? What to say when this man is the president of the United States? At the end of the winter 2003, some weeks before the iraq war, George W. Bush stretched a last time to arrange the French president to its arguments, to convince it of admit at last that the cause is just and the operation Liberty for the iraq the will of God. Not less. All to his demonstration, junior Bush castigates the « loutish States », stigmatizes l' «axis of the Evil», evokes Gog and Magog. Gog and Magog? Jacques Chirac in speechless remainder, astonished by the énigmatique reference. A counselor of the elysée, prayed to decipher the quotation in speed, ends up to find the response with the Protestant Federation of France. It hears himself to say that at the end of the Times, according to the prophet Ezéchiel, Gog and Magog will erupt Babylone on Israël. Now Gog and Magog are the incarnation of the forces of the Evil, and Babylone, that stands up in the Baghdad vicinity, was restored by... Saddam Hussein!
The man more powerful of the world is not or an exégète of high flight or a crazy one. This is all simply a faithful one of a curious Church, Protestant, expansionist, millénariste and apocalyptic. George Bush is a Born Again Christian, literally a born Christian a second time. The Born Again Christians are the one of the movements that compose the very dynamics and very prosper Evangelical Churches of Jesus Christ, of which the followers are called «évangéliques» (1). These Churches, that by many aspects evoke a federation of sects, hear to convert the america before conquering the world! Or more or less. With a man as Bush to the White House, they already hold a good beginning.
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The doctrine évangélique, of which the election earth remains america, is today running it religious that progresses the more in the world since the Second World War. To the detriment of the Catholic church, historic Protestant Churches (Baptists, methodist) and even islam. The amount describing this colossal leap give the tournis: of 4 million in 1940 - on a total of 560MILLIONS of Christians -, the évangéliques today 500MILLIONS, néopentecôtistes and charismatic confused, on 2 Christian billion, be an on four! One considers that 52000CONVERSIONS produce themselves a day. Already, it exists 14000DÉNOMINATIONS évangéliques, understanding 1MILLION of churches that animate 1MILLION of ministers full-time. Harvey Cox, theology professor to Harvard and author of the «Return of God. Travel by countries pentecôtiste» (Desclée of Brouwer), predicts that the current évangélique should touch, to the horizon 2050, a disciple of the Christ on two and that it will become the religion dominating xxiesiècle. The Born Again Christians, as for them, are called thus because they have their conversion, their second birth, no not at all to a classical baptism but to a direct contact, to an encounter « of man to man, of man to God » with Jésus.
Jésus, George W. Bush met it at the age of 40ANS, when it drank too, a lot too even, and that his life left for vau-l one' water. The reverend Billy Graham, the «pope évangélique», used ambassador to the Christ and of translator to the future president. This one stopped drinking and changed life. Reemerge in Christ gave to him wings and assured for him allies that allowed for him to attain the post of governor of the Texas then to the White House. Of there it can assert that it sets up himself for objective of « to promote a biblical vision of the world».
Poorly elected by the voters, George W. Bush not some passes less for the elected official of God to the eyes of the American évangéliques - of which it succeeded obtaining the three quarters of the votes. Mi-janvier again, the minister Pat Robertson, founder of the powerful Christian Coalition and former employer of the chain évangélique The Family Channel, announce: « I HEAR God to say me that the election in 2004 will be an explosion. » And that « George W. Bush easily will win. Little imports this that it does, well or poorly, God supports it for this is a pious man and God blesss it». Author of an evident one to the eloquent title, «The New World Order», reverend puts in epigraph the vocation messianique of america while estimating qu' «it there will not have never world-wide peace before the house of God and the people God do not assume their role of leadership at the head of the world » ( to see p. 22). This quiet, and often sincere conviction, of a « destined shows » america maintains a true prurit prosélyte, a desire to convert others. Thus running it évangélique, that already includes 70MILLIONS of Americans, be a citizen on four, exports itself also easily as the fast-food, the Coke or the rap, and roots itself everywhere, Latin america to Japan while going through Africa, europe, Russia, India, China... It becomes more bolder even to invest with forces the Islamic, ultimate universe mission zone.
The issue jumps to the eyes: america, cradle and election earth of the doctrine évangélique, some would be therefore The Mecque. Washington, to the origin, not she the « city illuminated on the hill», the New Jerusalem, the Sion of the New World? The White House follows with a big interest the expansion of the Churches évangéliques. A special office, observatory sort official of the liberty of the worships through the world, edit each year a directory of the «persecution» religions, where neighbors among the oppressors the saudi arabia, Russia, China and France, all guilty ones of «to hold sway» against obédiences évangéliques.
Nothing of such in Latin America, continent where lives a Catholic on two and where the Churches évangéliques proliferate on forbidden earths to the Protestants to the environment of the xixesiècle. The neo movement evangelization begins about 1970. This is the age of now theology of the liberation, this Marxist Catholic current and opposing determined, including by the weapons, to the imperialist yankees. And nevertheless, central america leaves to win itself by the supporters of the «liberation of theology» - this is as well as presents itself the current évangélique. The Guatemala elects thus Rios Montt at the head of the state. Minister of the church of the Verb of God, this president very believing will not hesitate nevertheless to decimate thousands of Indian peasants.
The pope John paul II, to pains elected, puts to the index the theology of the liberation and separates little by little the bishops «red» to the profit of conservative prélats. Moved by the will to cut down the iron curtain, the sovereign pontiff concludes a pact with the president - évangélique - Ronald Reagan, that accepts in return, running 1984, to establish at last diplomatic relations with the Saint Sits. The currents évangéliques profit from it to swarm of an end to the other of the American continent thanks to the missionary enthusiasm of thousands of American students Born Again speaking, besides the Spaniard or the Portuguese one, the guarani, the aymara, the tupi. «It is a matter , announces then Ben Armstrong, the executive director of the religious American national Television, to conquer a well defined territory for the Christ: Latin america. The television is our aerial force, all convert them that go house in house form our infantry. » And it emits the vow of « to see everyone united by the satellite, as the announcement the apocalypse XIV, 6». More of a prélat latino believes there to reveal the work of the CIA.
Thus will it have sufficed of a quarter of mission century évangélique for that Latin, nevertheless colonized america in the name of the Against Reforms, leaves to divert itself Catholic church. Already a Chilean one on four east a Born Again. As for Brazil, it is not anymore only the biggest Catholic nation, it became equally the second country évangélique, immediately following the United States ( to see p. 26). To such not at all that, at the time of the last electoral ballot, even the very papiste Lula da Silva had to solicit the votes of the groups néopentecôtistes. Including those of the universal church of the Reign of God or the universal, of which the founder, Edir Macedo, a former employee of the national Lottery, is the object of processes for corruption and fiscal fraud. The Brazilian Senate counts today 60 representatives - on 512 - coming from churches évangéliques!
And henceforth Brazil, with 30 millions of convert, «competes» with the United States to broadcast the «new good» évangélique. Especially in former Africa Portuguese - Angola, Green Cape, Guinea bissau, Mozambique -, where the universal recruits to arms turn. To Congo, in South Africa, to the Benign one, to the Burkina, the sects néopentecôtistes pack the pawn to their Islamic counterparts. They some come more and more to the hands (armies, most often!), causing hundreds of deaths, as to the north of the Nigeria. In ivoire Coast, a guard come close to évangéliques counsels and supports the boss of the state, Laurent Gbagbo.
The Maghreb does not escape no more to the enthusiasm évangélique. About 150MISSIONNAIRES «work» to Morocco, according to a person in charge of the Catholic archevêché of Flap. In Algeria, the movement is again more visible: Churches néoprotestantes already have pinion on street. Foreign, French ministers, egyptians or Jordanian go often some visits pastoral, especially in Big Kabylie. To the great displeasure of the local press, that astonishes itself not only movement such a liberty but also impunity of which enjoy convert them with the Islamic ones, to the eyes of that they are nevertheless liable apostates, according to the charia, death penalty.
It is necessary to explain this astonishing indulgence from the state and of the bearded ones by the protection that brings Washington to the Churches évangéliques? Although it in be, the House of the islam - classical designation of the Islamic world - is the object of a true conquest strategy of the souls. Thus the international university Columbia, in Caroline of the South, does she form shock missionaries. Their objective? «To liquidate the islam», if one some believes the imposing file that consecrates for them, mi-2002, the monthly American «Mother Jones». 3000 Born Again raising Convention of the Baptists of the South - the unique Church to have blessed the invasion of the iraq, constraining the ex-président Jimmy Crankcase to leave it - prepare themselves to leave to evangelize Muslims at their place, and assume good grace risks it there to die in martyrs. In Iraq, the Convention maintains a NGO évangélique, the Samaritan's Purse, that sponsors the minister Franklin Graham, sons of the famous Billy Graham. She there broadcasts, between other, a Bible of which the cover imitates the uniform of the GI: a batch of 50000 copies already would have found taker.
Of what to reinforce the belief of George W. Bush in the vocation messianique of america. When it proclaims, to the day following the 11SEPTEMBRE, that « america must direct the world », it does not react by dog-eared pride, it reaffirms the essential creed of the American national catéchisme: the one of the «destined shows». A concept of which a senator of the indiana, Albert Beveridge, already summarized the spirit conquering when it declared at the end of 1898 - the year where Washington drives manu militari the very Catholic Spain outside Cuba and Philippine: « God did Americans the organizing masters of the world in order to institute the order there where reigns the chaos.»
The chaos. This is this that foresees Philip Jenkins, author of an impertinent work on the phenomenon évangélique, «the Next Chrétienté» («The Next Christendom»). Taking act of the swing of the seriousness center of the chrétienté of the west to the third world, developed and liberal North towards the poor and conservative South, it fears a radical fracture between Christian postmodernes and néochrétiens having renewed, beliefs folkloriques helping, with the church of the Means Acts. Worse again, these néochrétiens, in prey to the misery, to the nationalist, tribal passions and messianiques, and that live in the middle of Catholics, of hindouistes or of Muslims - to the Pérou, to Mexico, in India, in Indonesia, to the Nigeria, to the Soudan, to the Philippine ones -, will not lack to enter sooner or later at war total against their neighbors. The west there will not escape no more, concludes the researcher, for it will embody the new Babylone, the «prostituted» of which the apocalypse of holy John considers the destruction as the condition sine qua non of the jésus-christ return, the Messie awaited.
(1) «Evangéliques» and non-évangélistes, as Matthieu, Marc, Luc and John, the four disciples of the Christ that wrote the Gospels.
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