Our government is in the hands of milleniarians

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Kepler
Do more than a handful of trailer trash believe the "Left Behind" stuff as literal?

Times Best seller list for the last two novels. The fact is, millions of people believe this stuff. These people scared the bejeezuz out of me twenty years ago, when I was still a Christian and a Republican. (Yes, I know that blows your minds ).

Their first prophecy on how the end times would come about, nuclear war between the US and the USSR failed to come about (fortunately). These people believe that the US is God's instrument in the world. They believed that the US should have started WWIII to wipe out Communism, that all the good Christians would ascend to heaven in a nuclear rapture.

Reagan was their man. But then the Evil One ("evil empire") did something they didn't expect, he surrendered, which put off the apocalypse. This might help put Reagan's rhetoric and nuclear brinksmanship in a more frightening light.

Let's not forget how big the Promise Keepers got. There are millions of people who believe this stuff. And they are willing to force their beliefs down your throat. What saddens me most of all is how willing "normal" conservatives are to be in bed with these nuts.

[Starchild]

Personally, I'm betting on Cthulu eating half of humanity and driving the other half insane. As Jaakko obviously follows the Mi-Go, he will be one of the first to be dragged into the slimy depths by the spawn of our Great Lord.

Rise Dark Lord Cthulu! Raise the Great Old Ones and lay ruin to this world! The mad ramblings of Azathoth have foretold it!

[Jules]

Re: Our government is in the hands of milleniarians

Che, you haven't been reading Lyndon LaRouche lately by any chance, have you? This stuff about milleniarians sounds curiously familiar.

....But the point is: Why, then, does the United States support this? It's not because there's a Zionist Lobby. As a matter of fact, you have some of the worst anti-Semites in the United States, are the so-called pro-Armageddon Christian fundamentalists. They're anti-Semitic. Anyone who comes from the southern part of the United States knows that. These guys were, these are the real anti-Semites in the United States. These are the real Nazis. They think like fascists, anyway. You think these guys like Jews? No! They don't care about Jews. They don't care about that. What they care about is their policy. They're saying, look, if you can get the Rapture next week, I don't have to pay my rent next month! I mean, it's that bad.

So, we have created a society of madmen in these so-called "thunder cults," these thunder religious cults inside the United States. They're crazy. Psychotic, in effect. Not in the real world. They have become a significant political force behind people like Pat Robertson in Virginia, for example. They're dangerous. This is the constituency, the constituency of hate, the Ku Klux Klan constituency. They have to have somebody to hate, somebody to kill. And they say, "Them A-rabs—look like black people to me." They do, don't they?

Look, I'm an old man. I've been around this country for a long time. I know what goes on in this country. I was training troops in the Army back during World War II. I know what we were sweeping in from southern parts of the United States. I know what they said. I had to deal with them. We've got that—that rot is deep in our country. And it's come forth....

Lyndon LaRouche

(excerpted from his May 1, Washington DC webcast on the subject of "The Middle East Blow-Back Effect" )

Makes me laugh every time I hear it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think I speak for most of us when I say Che has flipped his lid .

[chequita guevara]

You know, even Lyndon LaLouche can't be wrong 100% of the time. (Man they are annoying people.)

[Jaakko]

Hey Starchild, if you're a Lovecraft fan, you definitely need to check out Delta Green. It's a world setting for the Call of Cthulhu RPG, probably the best extrapolation of Lovecraft's work I've ever seen.

[nationalist]

Where did you people find this stuff? That LaRouche excerpt was luagh out loud hysterical. No sane person could take that seriously. Christians are not rooting for some nuclear apocalypse. Where does he come up with this stuff? Insane.

[Jules]

Originally posted by nationalist
Where did you people find this stuff? That LaRouche excerpt was luagh out loud hysterical. No sane person could take that seriously. Christians are not rooting for some nuclear apocalypse. Where does he come up with this stuff? Insane.

The link to the full transcript was in red from my above post.

If you liked that one, here's another from Political Research Associates:

To the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me, I am now confident and capable of ending your political - and sexual - impotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem. (1973)

Let's start with you Apolytoners. C'mon, get it up! I SAID NOW!!! DO IT OR ELSE YOU'VE BEEN BRAINWASHED BY THE KGB TO RUN OFF WITH MY COMMON LAW WIFE AND TURN ME INTO A RAVING LUNATIC!!!! ARGH...THE QUEEN PUSHES DOPE!!!!! AND ONLY I CAN PERSONALLY RESOLVE THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM!!!!!! IF YOU LISTEN TO THAT JULES GUY IT MEANS YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!

But, seriously, I'm going to have to agree with Che on this one. Ever since I read Hal Lindsey's "Great Late Planet Earth" in high school, I don't like what these folks represent. Seems kind of self-fulfilling to me. Convince enough people that the world is about to end and they will act in such a way as to effect that precise result. The long decay of the Roman Empire resulted in part from the fact that people stopped believing in the "idea" of Rome as a viable form of society.