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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: philv who wrote (10317)	3/11/2006 12:53:21 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

Phil > In my travels in the US, and from all I have heard and read, I think it is a gross exaggeration to suggest that religious fundamentalism, or re-born Christianity is a majority viewpoint in the US. Then I have a surprise for you. Although I accept there are only about 30 million actual Evangelists, to reject science in favour of belief looks pretty "fundamentalist" to me. editorandpublisher.com >>A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, "God created man exactly how Bible describes it." Another 31% says that man did evolve, but "God guided." Only 12% back evolution and say "God had no part." Gallup summarized it this way: "Surveys repeatedly show that a substantial portion of Americans do not believe that the theory of evolution best explains where life came from." They are "not so quick to agree with the preponderance of scientific evidence." The report was written by the director of the The Gallup Poll, Frank Newport. << > Also, your description of reborn Christianity as a new "cult" is completely wrong. First of all, there is nothing new about "reborn" Christianity. It is as old as the New Testament. As I understand it, the Scofield Bible is the text used by the Reborn Christians, as distinct from Catholics and Protestants in general. christianparty.net >>World Zionist leaders initiated a program to change America and its religious orientation. One of the tools used to accomplish this goal was an obscure and malleable Civil War veteran named Cyrus I. Schofield. A much larger tool was a venerable, world respected European book publisher--The Oxford University Press. The scheme was to alter the Christian view of Zionism by creating and promoting a pro-Zionist subculture within Christianity. Scofield's role was to re-write the King James Version of the Bible by inserting Zionist-friendly notes in the margins, between verses and chapters, and on the bottoms of the pages. The Oxford University Press used Scofield, a pastor by then, as the Editor, probably because it needed such as man for a front. The revised bible was called the Scofield Reference Bible, and with limitless advertising and promotion, it became a best-selling "bible" in America and has remained so for 90 years. The Scofield Reference Bible was not to be just another translation, subverting minor passages a little at a time. No, Scofield produced a revolutionary book that radically changed the context of the King James Version. It was designed to create a subculture around a new worship icon, the modern State of Israel, a state that did not yet exist, but which was already on the drawing boards of the committed, well-funded authors of World Zionism.<< But the proof of the pudding is, of course, in the eating. jerusalemites.org >>Never before in modern history has there been a White House and American Government so infiltrated with a combination of Christian and Jewish fundamentalists. ----- President Bush talks openly and proudly about his active spiritual faith. In another, less well known sign of the religious devotion that permeates the administration, some White House staffers have been meeting weekly at hour-long prayer and Bible study sessions. Bush aides organized the sessions before his inauguration. One group meets during the lunch hour on Tuesdays, another on Thursdays. Attendance is voluntary and, although the lessons are Christian in nature, non-Christians are welcome. Typically, 25 to 50 of the 1,700 people who work in the White House complex -- department heads, secretaries and mail clerks --attend each session. They meet in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, an ornate building next to the White House that houses the offices of Vice President Cheney and other administration officials.<< Doesn't look like Constitutional "separation of church and state" to me, in fact, the state is beginning to look very much like a church -- even from the other side of the earth. And I would further argue that it is impossible for this preoccupation with religion not to have a profound influence on US foreign policy.