Because there are no missing blondes, presidents getting head or anything else of major import happening in the World Today, Newsweek, that journalistic inbred cousin of the supermarket tabloids has decided that interviewing the author of the "Left Behind" series would be a stellar idea. See, Tim La Haye believes the rapture is imminent, and Newsweek is helping him spread the word. La Haye's charming view of the impending rapture is filled with tidbits like this:
...my understanding is that current biblical scholarship reads some of the apocalyptic scenes in the Bible as metaphorically addressing events that were taking place as the Bible was being written.
These are usually liberal theologians that don't believe the Bible literally.
... Does this explain how living right with God, in a Christian sense, would entail supporting the Israeli state right now?
I think those two things are related. Christians who take the Bible literally are generally supportive of Israel because God promises to bless those nations that are a blessing to Israel and curse those nations that are not. And the history of America bears that out.
... So believers in the Rapture don't necessarily foresee a damnation of the Jews then?
No, we don’t believe in the damnation of people in ethnic groups. We believe that’s an individual decision. Now, it often follows in people groups. Take the Muslims that we've been talking about. Everybody knows that they do not accept Jesus Christ as a means of salvation from sin. That's the only way you can be saved, is to call on the name of the Lord. They’re not about to do that.
Oh can't you feel the love? Just another one of those fantabulous Xtians with their fear-inspring fairy tales. It seems that they have been around since the middle ages and they never do seem to go away. They're like a virus, just when it seems that everyone is immune to their poison, they come back with a different strain of the same old crap and find a whole new load of minds to infect yet again.
It seems to me that it is about time to start attacking these idiots with a full bore attack. The 'revelationist' ideology is simply traitorous in the extreme. It is throughly anti-American
The 'revelationist' idiom is simply priest (priest in the general sense - not specifically a denomination) threatening the unwashed peasantry with 'hellfire and damnation,' which the Joshua ben Joseph of the New Testament unaccountably leaves those of the 'pastoral' ilk (except for moneychangers - resemblance to those polluting religion for money is directly intended) with no means of coercing peasants to give up their brains and money for the temporal benefit (and political power) of said scummy 'priests.'
I think it is becoming time to visit the damnation of Revelations on those who want it, exclusively. Perhaps they should be force-drafted into the, hmmm, National Revelationist Guard? (I hate to think of the Marines and Army/National Guard having to deal with this trash, even as cannon-fodder). Essentially, the 'revelationists' know they are the scum of the earth. H. L. Mencken knew the progenitors of this human filth well; he described them pretty aptly.
posted by: smaug on 08.03.06 at 08:56 AM [permalink]
