As first reported by independent journalist Jonathan Larsen, a US combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers that the war on Iran is part of “God’s divine plan,” allegedly claiming President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus” to ignite Armageddon. The complaint, filed with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, is one of more than 110 logged within 48 hours from over 40 units across at least 30 installations. Complainants, including Christians, a Muslim, and a Jew, have requested anonymity to avoid retaliation.
Religious wars are coming back globally with a vengeance.
1) They all select in the scriptures of the three major religions the most bellicose passages
2) They are used to motivate the troops, led by believers or those who cynically use their energy for money and power.Trump is In the bible world of thumpers the Armageddon is one of of the favored inspiring bellicose passages. It announced that the kings of the earth under demonic leadership will wage war on the forces of God at the end of history. The Democrats were designated as satans incarnated. (Who could forget some Tea Party members with big posters featuring Obama as the one). Even better: The Armageddon promises the faithful ones who have been chosen to rule with Christ will finish their earthly course and be resurrected to life in heaven. The sinners will suffer for eternity in hell. (Watching the sinner burnt has always been a source of pleasure)
A two years old The Guardian article explained, " This war is prophetically significant’: why US evangelical Christians support Israel" https://lnkd.in/guhRBgce "Many American evangelicals hold an apocalyptic worldview, with roughly 39% of US adults believing humanity is living in the "end times". This theology drives strong support for Israel, viewed as essential for triggering the final battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus. This belief system significantly influences US foreign policy in the Middle East. " in 2015 the Pew Research Center estimated there were about 62 million in the US – for Israel can be split into different groups, While there are plenty of evangelicals who, adhere to the Israel-is-key-to-Jesus’-return theology, there are also those who believe in “blessings theology”, a less outlandish, more transactional approach to support for Israel.
The exploitation of the armageddon does not start with trump
The separation between church and state started to melt three decades ago.( Translated from my book: Haine Froide)
It started with the confusion brought by generalization. We are going to take you in the world of a “rigid” quasi fanatic Christian church We we are far from the Church Christian, which speaks of compassion , sharing, and sacrifice. It will not be about the Church of the New Testament where Christ, in sandals, hunts . whips the money changers in the Temple. Nor is it the Church of the Kennedys, of Jack, the first Catholic president , nor that of Ted Kennedy who, before dying in 2010, ensured that health insurance would cover those who couldn't afford it. This Church was reviled by Ayn Rand.
This Church continues to lose ground, just like the capitalism championed by Republicans and represented by Ike Eisenhower We are entering into other manifestations of Christian worship , in a world where the Bible is punitive, where the world is traversed by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a world with its terrible battles, including that of Armageddon. These are familiar passages in a country where half the population reads and consults the Bible. They are read and reread in the Southern states that form what is called the " Bible Belt ." It was there that a movement took shape a century ago , within the vast network of preachers. Evangelicals and Bible teachers: those who established the so-called fundamentalist movement. Baptists, Methodists , Presbyterians , Pentecostals , and small churches. independent women all wanted to return to the foundations of the Christian faith .
We are entering into other manifestations of Christian worship , in a world where the Bible is punitive, where the world is traversed by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a world with its terrible battles, including that of Armageddon. These are familiar passages in a country where half the population reads and consults the Bible. They are read and reread in the Southern states that form what is called the " Bible Belt ." It was there that a movement took shape a century ago , within the vast network of preachers. Evangelicals and Bible teachers: those who established the so-called fundamentalist movement. Baptists, Methodists , Presbyterians , Pentecostals , and small churches. independent women all wanted to return to the foundations of the Christian faith.
The foundation is the Bible. It should be noted that, in certain parts of the American territory , it is the absolute reference , the framework through which all events are interpreted , whether it be September 11, the war in Afghanistan or the election of the president . We are not talking about a marginal reading. “
A study conducted by Time and CNN revealed at the time that 36% of Americans believe that the Bible is the Word of God and should be taken literally. 59% are convinced that the events The events predicted in Revelation will come to pass. Nearly one in four Americans believes that 9/11 was foretold in the Bible, and almost one in five believes they will live long enough to see the end of the world. Even more significantly, more than a third of Americans favor a pro- Israel policy because they believe Jesus will return to Earth the day the Jews possess their own land in the Holy Land. Millions of Americans firmly believe that the future is written in the Bible and that the end of the world is near. Their beliefs are rooted in the prophetic passages of the Bible: Daniel and Ezekiel in the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation in the New Testament. They represent about a third of America , 40 or 50 million Christians. evangelicals who believe that the nation of Israel will play a central role in the unfolding of end- times events .
A whole interpretation of contemporary political events has thus been based on the books of Revelation . Matthew Avery Sutton, professor of history at Washington State University , invites us to this essential reading for anyone who wants to understand American political life . “The criticism of the Bible,” he writes , “the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, the evolutionary sciences , and the First World War are all signs that the second coming of Jesus is imminent. Based on biblical prophecy , they have identified signs [...] which foreshadow the arrival of the final days: the growth of strong central governments and the consolidation of independent nations into a single one led by a leader in appearance -
They are convinced, Sutton tells us, that they are dealing with the Antichrist , who is leading humanity towards a second Armageddon . Conservative preachers , evangelists , and media personalities of the 20th as Billy Sunday, Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Graham , and Jerry Falwell , all shared this belief.
This prophecy pushed them , politically, to the right. They saw a sign in the growth of government, and their anxiety only worsened with the rise of fascism in the 1930s . The end times were near. Obsessed with correlations , they saw Mussolini , Hitler, and Stalin as messengers announcing the coming of the Antichrist . President Franklin D. Roosevelt greatly troubled them. He had remained in power for three terms, and he was He was perceived as an ardent defender of the United Nations. Worse, he had created what was seen as a governmental empire so large that one could think the time had come: he was the Antichrist himself.
"The fundamentalists joined the libertarian right in their struggle against Roosevelt [...] Like the orthodox Marxists who contest capitalism, while accepting that it is a stage Inevitable on the road to socialist paradise, conservative Christians will fight against the Antichrist , even if they are convinced that
The end is near. For them, the world of 2011 resembles the world of the 1930s in many respects . International turmoil and a prolonged economic slowdown have fueled distrust towards the government .
For some evangelicals , President Obama is even more troubling, explains Matthew Sutton: we do n't really know where he was born, he preaches internationalism, his support for Israel appears lukewarm, and on top of that, he receives the Nobel Peace Prize. His involvement on behalf of the government in the health sector is seen as the final conspiracy: to create a vast empire that wants to dominate everyone's lives.
In 2008, John McCain, the Republican candidate opposing Obama, called him " The One," the name of the Messiah. McCain knew what he was doing. Never, since Roosevelt, the fundamentalists whisper, had the United States had a president whose universal popularity and charisma corresponded so perfectly to the descriptions of the Antichrist ".
PAVING THE WAY TO THIEL’ ANTICHRIST
Here we are : the government is dominated by this satanic presence which seeks to supplant God and the Churches through social programs, which practices infanticide and euthanasia, which destroys parental authority ... going against the divine destiny of America , the nation which fights in the name of Christ the Redeemer against infidels throughout the world. Peter Thiel has been delivering a series of private, closed-door lectures in San Francisco titled "The Antichrist," exploring the biblical figure in the context of politics, technology, and AI
Thiel uses the term not necessarily as a literal theological demon, but as a "political theology" framework to describe authoritarian forces that he believes are using fear of catastrophe to impose a one-world, anti-innovation regulatory regime.
That's not all. The Book of Revelation isn't the only story to influence politics. For some years now, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah has returned to haunt consciences, to the point where sexual sin will play an increasingly important role in the 2012 election campaign . We invite those who might think this is an exaggeration... Listen carefully to what Rick Santorum , the Tea Party star and Republican candidate who was once a leading contender for the Republican nomination, has to say. The support he has garnered leads us to believe that we are not dealing with a mere fringe "zealot," as the French press suggests , but with the representative of a hardline movement spreading throughout the world, a movement that challenges the separation of church and state .
George Lakoff, more attuned than ever to language and its metaphors , also warns liberals who tend to underestimate the importance of Rick Santorum 's discourse and the effect his words have on brains . His hypothesis is that all thought is physical. We think with something very physical, our brain, and we have no choice. Brain circuits are strengthened with repetition . And language, far from being neutral, activates the complex brain circuits that are rooted in the moral systems of conservatives and liberals . There is a conservative language that uses repetition to reinforce the circuits of the conservative brain. This is extremely important for so-called " independents ," who are effectively both conservative and liberal . They will hesitate for a while, but the more they hear conservative language, the more their system."
SO HERE WE ARE, THIEL LEADING THE GROUP, TRUMP SENDING THE AMERICAN ARMY TO FIGHT A HOLY WAR IN IRAN, WOMEN BEING DENIED RIGHTS…ALL THE THEOCRACY KIT