from Joseph Palmer's website today:
Apr. 20th, 2004 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgSo here we have a major political constituency - representing much of the current president's core vote - in the most powerful nation on Earth, which is actively seeking to provoke a new world war. Its members see the invasion of Iraq as a warm-up act, as Revelation (9:14-15) maintains that four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates" will be released "to slay the third part of men". They batter down the doors of the White House as soon as its support for Israel wavers: when Bush asked Ariel Sharon to pull his tanks out of Jenin in 2002, he received 100,000 angry emails from Christian fundamentalists, and never mentioned the matter again.
There is also a passage in the article that reads:
In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an extraordinary delusion. In the 19th century, two immigrant preachers cobbled together a series of unrelated passages from the Bible to create what appears to be a consistent narrative: Jesus will return to Earth when certain preconditions have been met.
That's nice. Two people - which two people, kthanx - so I can argue intelligently, okay?
Does anyone have a lead on this?
BTW, I knew this stuff was bonkers when I was 17. But it's made a whole lotta money for a whole lotta people, I see.
There is also a passage in the article that reads:
In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an extraordinary delusion. In the 19th century, two immigrant preachers cobbled together a series of unrelated passages from the Bible to create what appears to be a consistent narrative: Jesus will return to Earth when certain preconditions have been met.
That's nice. Two people - which two people, kthanx - so I can argue intelligently, okay?
Does anyone have a lead on this?
BTW, I knew this stuff was bonkers when I was 17. But it's made a whole lotta money for a whole lotta people, I see.
