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Berenger Sauniere · 04-22-2002, 07:30 PM

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But how would it happen? I mean after all this time you're not going to find the Corpse of Christ or some little note Moses or Muhammed wrote to his mom explaining how he faked the whole thing to become a big wig. Will rationality spread and people stop believing? I think the world is rolling the other way right now.

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Religion is much, much older than either of these figures, who are probably nothing more than your garden-variety reformists. They definitely factor into the equation(s) of the debacle though. The information that will bring this event about has nothing to do with how religious or un-religious the world is at any given time. It's just going to be the unfolding of "real" history, which towers over the mythology that the world has been spoonfed for numerous millenia. There is no greater enemy to the Church than history, and like I said, "real" history.

Toto · 05-24-2002, 01:06 PM

More on this theme.

<a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/05/24/dispensational/print.html" target="_blank">Antichrist politics: For many fervent Christians, support for Israel has less to do with Ariel Sharon than preparing for Armageddon.</a>

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Toto · 06-05-2002, 10:25 AM

This article was posted in the Political Forum:

<a href="http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-04-02.html" target="_blank">Crackpot Theology Makes Bad Foreign Policy</a>

The Cato Institute is a Libertarian think tank, and is usually aligned with right wing interests, so it is disparaging its own political bedfellows on this issue.

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Interest groups have long influenced American foreign policy. Rarely, however, has foreign policy rested on theology. Even the vast majority of American Jews who support Israel do so more on ethnic than on religious grounds. But now some Christians are attempting to turn the U.S. government into an arm of the church. Sympathy toward Israel is understandable: there is no excuse for murderous suicide bombings. Yet Washington needs to develop a Mideast policy that advances the interests of America, not one that advances a peculiar interpretation of Christian theology.

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Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	More on this theme. <a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/05/24/dispensational/print.html" target="_blank">Antichrist politics: For many fervent Christians, support for Israel has less to do with Ariel Sharon than preparing for Armageddon.</a> [Salon Premium article - requires paid registration]

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