The Jesus Landing Pad: Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move

Village Voice ^ | May 18th, 2004 10:00 AM | Rick Perlstein

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Always wondered where the 144,000 number came from.

[Clint Williams]

?

[NCPAC]

Zealots are zealots are zealots. Almost

I remember when Gary Jarmin's group "Christian Voice" claimed to tbe THE Christian Voice in America - and they received some play with the Reagan Administration. Zealous though they were, they were not "apocalyptic."

[maestro]

Upton refused to confirm further details. Affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church, the Apostolic Congress is part of an important and disciplined political constituency courted by recent Republican administrations. As a subset of the broader Christian Zionist movement, it has a lengthy history of opposition to any proposal that will not result in what it calls a "one-state solution" in Israel.

?....The United Pentecostal Church is a sect of the mono-mono-mono-mono-theism of Islam?

?...They do NOT believe in The Holy Trinity...?

(Islamic Pentecostals?)

/sarcasm

[bereanway]

Does Perlstein write for the Village Voice or is he simply the Village Idiot?

[ride the whirlwind]

"Everything that you're discussing is information you're not supposed to have," barked Pentecostal minister Robert G. Upton...

Barked? Perlstein's article is laughable. Obviously to him, Christians need to keep quiet and be the only group in the country who must never weigh in on any pertinent issues.

At least GWB is channeling God and not Eleanor Roosevelt!

[epigone73]

"It demonstrates, he says, "the absolute convergence of the neoconservatives with the Christian Zionists and the pro-Israel lobby, driving U.S. Mideast policy."

you see? Larouche was right!

morons at the village voice; that's not news

[VaBthang4]

Talk about your HaterAde.

I guess the hippies at the Village Voice dont flow with Jesus too well. Oh well, despite the efforts of Men...'His' plan marches on undisturbed.

[Sam's Army]

Nor is it anything to worry about.

[dfwgator]

The Weekly World News is more reliable than the Village Voice.

[Ciexyz]

Fringe group, I don't agree with their theology, but they have the right to make their voices heard, just like the rest of us. Shame on the Village Voice for stirring up people into thinking that Christian fascists are the power behind Bush's presidency.

[cookcounty]

Yes, a very small group with serious deviations from classical evangelical orthodoxy. But, hey, it makes a splash in the V Voice, and pads the paycheck, so why not push it?

[dead]

Yeah, they seem pretty nutty, but at least Bush isn't meeting with the Anton LeVay, Head of the Church of Satan like Kerry is! 8-)

Every president has to have representatives who meet with the fringier elements of their support. Clinton had people meeting all the time with kooks like Calypso Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam or The World Socialist Party. Hell, the Democrats just paraded around that felon Al Sharpton as a legitimate candidate for the presidency.

Perlstein conveniently glosses over the fact that Bush ignored the pleas of the apocolyptic sect, and supported Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Apparently, they don't have quite the amount of pull within the Administration that Perlstein seeks to imply.

[r9etb]

I couldn't wade past the first couple of hysterical, spittle-flying paragraphs -- is it that stupid throughout?

[ColdSteelTalon]

Apostolics believe that only 144,000 Jews who have not, prior to the Second Coming of Christ, acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah will be saved in the end times

These people are not fundamentalists, They sound like Jehovahs witnesses. (russellites)

[Neophyte]

the members vociferously oppose the idea of a Palestinian state.

And rightly so, you stupid! Look at Bethlehem, once a predominantly Christian city. Since the idiotically Leftist Israeli government of the day handed the place over to the Pallies, Christians there were killed, maimed and squeezed away... and now they're a small minority. In the meanwhile, a huge pagan shrine of Muhammad 'The Polygamist Pedophile' dominates the birth place of Jesus Christ.

[Bob J]

12,000 from each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

[dead]

Interesting report on this group and what they're up to. They might have some problems with Israeli law, if anybody over there reads the Voice.

His point that this group has an undue influence on policy in the Bush White House is so weak as to be nonexistent really. His entire evidence to that point is that the leader of the group hints at such, like any wannabe world-shaker would.

[dighton]

The Weekly World News is more reliable than the Village Voice.

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