May 18, 2004

• If you had any doubt about the kind of political machine running our country, doubt no further. Apparently the current political regime is running on high-octane apocalypse now dogma. That’s right… they can’t wait for doomsday any more; now they’re actively seeking it (partial article and link below). I think it’s safe to say that they are going to do what they want, no matter if it’s good for the rest of the world or just themselves. My favorite quote was “Everything that you’re discussing is information you’re not supposed to have.” hahahah heehehe

  
  

  Yes, quite. Let us discuss the merits of keeping their apocalyptic agenda from the awareness of the “average man on the street.” Aside from the fact that not everyone is Christian, are the Christians themselves really ready for Jesus to come back? I mean I think there’s probably a lot of Christians out there who aren’t ready for the “Rapture.” Maybe if these Fundies told their peers that they were working for the end of the world, their brethren could get their crap together for the big day and fewer of them would be left behind when we, the meek (ie the people who have suffered the evangelizing of the Christians for two millennia), inherit the Earth.

  
  

  ahhehehe, sorry, this article really tickled my irony bone.

  
  

  But seriously, or surreally as the case may be, since these fundy groups share the world with many other religious groups, shouldn’t they ask whether the rest of us want their messiah to come back and end it all? Or maybe they’re just grasping at straws considering he’s about 2000 years late for his own resurrection. But I kid, I kid, I am so mean… No offense to all my Christian colleagues at Xanga.

  
  

  Still, it just floors me that these people act as if they’re the only people on the planet -that their actions are all justified so long as it brings about the long expected conclusion to their benighted existence. On the one hand they want a state of Israel, and then on the other, they want to go over there and sermonize and convert despite Israel’s strict rule against missionary work. So they want a state of Israel to rebuild the temple of David because supposedly that will bring Christ back, but they want to convert them to Christianity too. And like this temple is going to be rebuilt and Jesus is just going to show up, nodding his head and stroking his beard, saying “Yup, yup, boys, that’s a damn fine temple you got there. Y’know what? Youse did such a mighty fine job reconstructing this old heap, let’s go to Heaven right now! Watcha say? Come on boys. It’s the rapture train! Woohoo! Everyone all aboard so you can contract in heaven to build even bigger, better temples at bargain basement prices.” It’s like they’ve all gotten anxious, sitting around, twiddling their thumbs, waiting for the big day, so now they’re going to try to coerce the return of their deity by showing how pious they are.

  
  

  Well, I think I’ll just stay right here on good old Earth. Once all the “true Christians” have been raptured away, I think I can get along with remainders. Who needs to build temples when the grandest temples grow themselves from the strong earth in the light of the life-giving sun? These so-called true Christians need to be more humble, I think. Just an observation, but building temples and whatnot to rival the natural beauty of the world is pretty prideful. Whether you feel God or the Gods created the world, it seems we have temples ready made for our use in the natural wonders of the world. Why show our arrogance in trying to outdo the natural splendor of divine creation? Mimicry is one of the nicest forms of flattery, but trying to outdo the one you mimic is hubris.

  
  

  Don’t you just love these little tirades I go off on? lol

  
  

  The Jesus Landing Pad
  

  Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move…
  by Rick Perlstein
  Village Voice
  May 18th, 2004 10:00 AM

  
  

  
  

  It was an e-mail we weren’t meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that “the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level”—this to a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed by proximity to a volume of Harry Potter. Most of all, apparently, we’re not supposed to know the National Security Council’s top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.
  

  But now we know.

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