Catch Glenn Beck on CNN tonight? I don't know how to post a link, so hopefully somebody else can. He hosted Joel Rosenberg, an "evangelical Christian" author of an upcoming "novel" on end times visions,armageddon and ... apparently....1001 reasons we should expand our war in the Middle East to get the muslims before they get us.
The premise of his thesis? The Muslims are trying to fulfill a mirror "bizarro" image of Christian revelations, neatly juxtaposing the forces of good vs. evil. Both Rosenberg and Beck, a mormon, proceed on the fundamental assumption that we, the United States, will obviously and undoubtedly be on the side of right, immune to the wiles and aligned against the Roman born anti-christ. They proceed to discuss current events, struggling sometimes to make the discussion fit their assumption.
It was an interesting discussion and with McCain courting Huckabee, specifically to appease the "evangelical christian" wing of the GOP, I think it's a discussion worth pursuing. If they want to run a "war hero" and big supporter of the Iraq war together with an "evangelical christian" who thinks we should be positioning ourselves for Armageddon, then lets have that discussion.
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