God & Politics/Power ( Archived) (92)

ok, sorry, go for it ... what would like on your tombstone after the hellfire and damnation you go through?

thats taken, by Sadam Husein .... something else?

going to need an engraver who can spell and engrave really small letters

others motives are hard to interperate, props to skybow for her thorough attempt at understanding this nearly ununderstandable subject. i think it depends on which group of people we are looking at, i think their are varying views. My honest opinion why it is such an important issue to polititions is because jewish americans tend to be a highly active voting block, and pandering is abound in politics. then there is the extremeist christian wackos who believe that they have to preserve isreal so when jesus comes back during armageddon he can let them have it. then there are several shades of grey in between, wether it be to preserve the sovergnty of Isreal for the Jewish people after what happened to them during the holocost (a noble notion), orto have an allie in region not so friendly to us from where we can launch military operations (not so noble). There are many other reasons one could give for the support of isreal, i however am no expert and just stumbled upon this post, skimmed it a bit and rattled off a few ideas. But as far as the polititians are concerned i think their after votes, just my uneducated opinion.

You're not too far and as you have noted, skimming won't get at the core of what's going on. The bible is quite clear and so is the 'empire's' intent. What puzzles me now in light of this information is the part other countries play in this fullfillment of faerie tale christ. The US sends (foreign aid) a great deal of money to Isreal, and to Egypt as well. They also have a lot of Isreali contracts on US soil. And also toss a lot of money into Babylon (Iraq) even though Iraq has a surplus and could support themsleves and whatever troops they figure are needed there. If the biblical fantasy is being pushed to conclusion like some self (empire) fulfilling prophecy it's evident who the palyers are; but what is each one's goal?

When the expectation is that 2/3 of the jewish nation will be anihilated, the lack of concern for inhabitants is unconscionable; but leaders of empires rarely have concern for collateral damage in their quests.

Voting is an abhoration in the US. Two parties, in which the party leaders select someone from "their" ranks, means that anyone who doesn't submit to the party line and goals has no chance of getting to the voting booths as a candidate. It hasn't been a true democracy for some time. You're literally choosing from people selected by the empirist policy setters who just happen to be (no surprise) right wing christian bullet heads.