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NYCparalegal · 10-16-2003, 10:37 AM

Not sure where to post this, as it could easily go into the Political Discussions board...

Feel free to relocate!

Anyway, I saw this gem on CNN.com.

Methinks Rummy and pals have read too many Left Behind novels or seen The Omen too many times...

Rhaedas · 10-16-2003, 10:46 AM

Quote:

"There are a lot of things that are said by people that are their views," he [Rumsfeld] said, "and that's the way we live. We are free people and that's the wonderful thing about our country, and I think for anyone to run around and think that can be managed or controlled is probably wrong."

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Toto · 10-16-2003, 11:47 AM

This was a front page story in the LA Times (requires free registration)

General Casts War in Religious Terms

plus an op ed column decrying the foreign policy implications

Pentagon Unleashes a Holy War

Quote:

In June of 2002, Jerry Boykin stepped to the pulpit at the First Baptist Church of Broken Arrow, Okla., and described a set of photographs he had taken of Mogadishu, Somalia, from an Army helicopter in 1993.

The photographs were taken shortly after the disastrous "Blackhawk Down" mission had resulted in the death of 18 Americans. When Boykin came home and had them developed, he said, he noticed a strange dark mark over the city. He had an imagery interpreter trained by the military look at the mark. "This is not a blemish on your photograph," the interpreter told him, "This is real."

"Ladies and gentleman, this is your enemy," Boykin said to the congregation as he flashed his pictures on a screen. "It is the principalities of darkness It is a demonic presence in that city that God revealed to me as the enemy."

This is beyond religious imagery. This is delusion.

ImGod · 10-16-2003, 11:54 AM

Funny how everywhere the US goes, there's Satan.

Toto · 10-16-2003, 12:12 PM

There's a thread in PD on this: Here

Radcliffe Emerson · 10-16-2003, 02:03 PM

Boykin says we're a Christian nation. We certainly act like one, invading and killing others that don't think the way we want them to.

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NYCparalegal Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Manhattan, NYC Posts: 183	The War on Terrorism as a fight between JC values and Satan Not sure where to post this, as it could easily go into the Political Discussions board... Feel free to relocate! Anyway, I saw this gem on CNN.com. Methinks Rummy and pals have read too many Left Behind novels or seen The Omen too many times...

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ImGod Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Nebraska Posts: 6,264	Funny how everywhere the US goes, there's Satan.

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Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	There's a thread in PD on this: Here

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Radcliffe Emerson Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: the dark side of Mars Posts: 1,309	Boykin says we're a Christian nation. We certainly act like one, invading and killing others that don't think the way we want them to.

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