Is there a relationship between the conservatives' agenda and the eschaton of fundamentalist Christian theology?
I suspect that there is, and I have been reading up on movements in America like Dominionism and Christian Reconstructionism which seem to bear out that suspicion. I started with a few Wikipedia articles and Theocracy Watch and I have been following the bread crumbs through the Internet. The library is my next stop.
What I've learned so far is frightening. GWB's policy in the Middle East seems designed to bring on Armageddon. The economic plans of the conservatives seem designed to end all social programs in America through the expediency of draining government resources so that we can no longer afford them. (This is Calvanist economics at their worst, and there is a relationship between Calvanism and conservative economic policy that I am still teasing apart in my mind.) The perpetual war seems to play into the ideas of the end times.
More on all this later, when I have a clearer picture in my own head of the scope and influence of this movement, or perhaps parallel movements. All in all, trying times ahead in America for secularists and humanists.
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And what does anyone expect when you allow a governemt to run under religion, christianity, Islam, or PETA for that matter.
Liberty is not protected when government get into morality.
BTW, The Scrub's policy that brought on Armageddon, it just has not become apparent yet.
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