Kevin-Pass the Plate

A while ago, I serendipitously found myself at a Christian Web site. I would have left sooner than you could say: 'We will now pass the plate',
but the theme of the site was rather unique.
Mr. Stephen Hanchett has written a book about his intense study and ultimate conclusion to the possibility that Bush is the Anti-Christ. He has done his job well. Although I do not share his premise, I do share the passion. There is something really wrong with things today, especially in religious circles.

In my discourse with others at the site, which were few since I do not share their inerrant bible theory, I did meet one young gentlemen from Florida, named Kevin, (young brother) who would be irritated for me still classifying him as a fundamentalist, but regardless had the balls to recently write something very good:

"I want to thank the American religious right wing for stealing and defiling the name of the one hope for humanity. I would like to thank them for being lazy apathetic, and/or weak minded enough to (by the millions) lie back and accept the popularized notion that Jesus Christ spent his life running around making sure that men were only sleeping with women, and women were seen but never heard (also only sleeping with men). Thanks for sending out the message that "God Hates Fags", even though every homosexual person has been handcrafted by their creator (who is Love.)Thank you for making unchurched people take away from you and your active and consistent example the idea that Jesus was a nosy busy-body, who also was worried sick about pregnant women and their children in utero. ...

And I love it how you shrug off your allegiance to the war machine by claiming forgiveness, or that you are turning the other cheek. You have washed your hands in innocent blood. How holy you are. How Godly and pure, to turn a blind eye to, say the catastrophic birth defects that have plagued Iraq since we riddled it with depleted uranium shells in Desert Storm. Because ' family values' and the politician's promise to end abortion (five years waiting for Bushco so far...) are way more important than human justice...."

And it seems Kevin & Steve are not the only ones who sense something is wrong:

from: Christianity & The Demise Of America

"Real Christians would not tolerate presidents who make war on defenseless people based upon lies and innuendo. Bush and his imperialist polices should be openly and powerfully denounced from every pulpit in every church in the United States, every day. But they are not. In fact, just the opposite occurs. Bush and his minions are cheered on by the apostates, the dogs of war and poverty. Rather than acting as a counter friction to the machine, the church acts like a cheer leader for grotesque acts of atrocity against the world. By allying itself with fraudulent ideologues like the 'Christian Right,' the church has itself become the anti-Christ."

Charles Sullivan -Information Clearing House

According to End Times Biblical theology, there will arise an Anti-Christ prior to the end of the age. During, before, or after, depending on what camp you're in, the 'true-blue' Christians (who are not suppose to be deceived), will be persecuted. Many believers and pagans will die horrible deaths.
In my early years as a die-hard fundy, we enjoyed believing that the United States was the chosen nation to help Israel & 'True Anna-Baptist Christianity ' survive, and believers would be crowned because of it.If you were really 'saved', you would not have to go through it. You would be 'raptured'.
After all Tim & Jerry aren't making loads of cash for nothing.

How ironic if true, that God, (or the Trickster), might have the outcome just the opposite.
Indeed, it seems logical to deduce that the UNITED STATES is leading the calls to a biblical Armageddon. How bizarre that the wars of today are being fought in ancient day Babylon.

Scenerio:
If it finally comes out that 911 was not what the leaders say it was- only after a climatic biological / nuclear exchange will then change peoples attitudes about religion forever. The horrors and the consequences leading up to a nuclear/bio exchange in the middle east, or abroad, with the effects it will have on the environment, the death toll, and the chaos would be chilling.

Because then, the Religious Right, and their religious constituents, by supporting this war and the administration that caused it- the loudest and most fervently- would ultimately be the ones that would feel the wrath of the surviving nations.
Thereupon ' Christian prophecy' comes true, but in a most unbelievable, horrible and unanticipated way.

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