Whether it's Mike Huckabee, or Pastor John Hagee, or some other Christian fundamentalist nut bag, they all are operating with the same divine script: get the Palestinians out, and the Jews into Israel, so all of the prophecies can come true. And what are they? Well, the Book of Revelations, is more than a little confusing, and it had to have been written by authors who'd been imbibing more than holy water because at some point, the Third Temple is built on the Temple Mount and, given that it's the 3rd holiest place in Islam because it was here that Muhammad took that ride to heaven on a winged horse-like creature to get the revelation which would become the Koran. Destruction of the Dome of the Rock by Israel will surely infuriate almost 2 billion Muslims! Anyway, at some point, God appears with 7 seals, and as each one is opened, a new calamity occurs, and then there are angels with trumpets, and yes, you guessed it, as they are blown (the trumpets, not the angels, get your minds out of the gutter) more shit befalls the world, and it all ends with the glorious return of JC and his army vanquishes the ultimate bad guy, and his army, the anti-JC, and there will be 7 years of tribulations, and a 1000 year reign of niceness on Earth, provided you were on team JC. I may be off on the exact sequence and time table (no, I know I am but it's sooo nutty and convoluted) but the upshot is that as things go horribly, existentially wrong here, Huckabee, Hagee, and their ilk are absolutely elated because they get to spend eternity with JC. Now JC may not be so ecstatic with such chubby company, and of course there's the ultimatum for the Jews to get with the program lest they be cast into the Lake of Fire. If I haven't confused you enough, you too can research the theological differences among, pre-tribulationists, mid-tribulationists, and post-tribulationists because each of them has different implications for when the true believers get whisked up into the air during the Rapture! Would an omniscient, omnipotent being who could put Shakespeare to shame really author such an absurd tale of humanity's ending? I've actually thought about creating a related flow chart so I could better track the events at home, but at some point, the Lake of Fire will surely interrupt my fool's errand.
Peter T.
