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Tony Blair has proclaimed that God will judge whether he was right to send British troops to Iraq, echoing statements from his ally George Bush…..As well as invoking God as the final judge of the Iraq war, Mr Blair also explained how his religious and political beliefs came to him simultaneously…..He agreed that his politics could be described as Christian “in terms of the values and the philosophy”. He also confirmed that religion illuminates his politics…..There have been persistent reports that Mr Blair joined the President in prayer for God’s guidance at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in 2002, at the summit at which many people believe a secret decision was reached to invade Iraq…..
The Brutal Christ of the Armageddonites
Religious fanaticism in American foreign policy.
A major reason the Armageddonites have become so powerful is that most journalists can’t comprehend that millions of Americans could really want, in this day and age, their God to destroy most of the human race, much less that they are donating millions to promote it (subsidizing settlements on the West Bank and paying for Russian Jews to immigrate to Israel in order to fulfill prophecies faster). Nor do most Americans know that Armageddonites are in the highest levels of government. But it was erstwhile House Majority Leader Tom DeLay who argued that the Iraq war should be supported because it is a precursor to the second coming of Christ…..
Torture, the GOP, and the Religious Right
After Abu Ghraib and other revelations of torture and murder, the main spokesmen and institutions of the Religious Right were notably silent; indeed some, Senator Inhofe for example, defended it and, along with several other fundamentalists, cast the only votes against the torture amendment…..
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