forwarded spritz from my friend Byron Marshall - Byron lives in Pineville LA

[Honor Johnson]

My only hope is that these people manage to get themselves killed =
quickly before their (so-called) genes can enter the overall gene pool.  =
On the other hand, they do live in Pineville...across the river from =
Alexandria, LA.

b

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From:	Michael Eisenstadt [SMTP:michaele@ando.pair.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:29 PM
To:	austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject:	forwarded spritz from my friend Byron Marshall - Byron lives in =
Pineville LA

Got that Old Time Rapture Comin' On, Hallelujah
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As I've mentioned, I know several groups of people
here who are "new Christians" and who are very excited
about "fighting Islam." Tney financially support
"secret" missionary groups working in, say, Turkey.=20

A pentacostal explained to me the destruction of the
WTCs was a good thing because it will lead our
government to attack Islamic states and thus pave the
way for the conversion of Islam all over the world.
(Conversion to Christianity, by the way, in case you
might have thought he had in mind some other
conversion, say to Mithraism, or the worship of the
dog-God Blazzadad.)=20

Our overthrow of the Afghani government and the Iraqi
government were viewed as very positive. Therefore it
was all God's plan, including the WTC.=20

I asked if this meant that the nine-eleven hijackers
had actually been operating under the direction of God
(one almost feels like one must say, 'the Christian
God') rather than following the instructions of bin
Laden. He found this dichotomy puzzling. Perhaps they
are one and the same.

When I asked wasn't this sort of hard on the many
victims of nine-eleven he waved his hands. You don't
make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, as someone
said--who was that?--no doubt a fanatic Islamic
leader.=20

The "new Christians" who are not Pentacostal
anticipate that the consequences of overthrowing Iraq
will be desirable, not so much as an opportunity for
missionary work, as for bringing about the last days.
They want "consequences." The more destruction and
chaos the better, for the rapture won't be far away.=20

They are very happy that all of this is happening in
the Middle East since this is where the Last Days will
begin.=20

The battle isn't over oil, it's over the oil for
annointing.

Of course, I'm not saying that any of this is what
motivates Condoleeza Rice.=20

As for the vice president, I'm not so sure.=20

I suspect that the Thanksgiving turkey in the White
House finds the prospect of being in the saddle as the
world explodes pretty damn entertaining, better than
the latest James Bond movie, and that's something.=20

Dubya, when one thinks of it, is sort of like the guy
riding the nuclear bomb out the bombay at the
conclusion of Dr. Strangelove.=20

Yahoo.=20

Kewl.

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But what guides Billy Kristol's feverish brain, making
up scenarios for world destruction from the desk of
Fox News? =20

Billy Kristol prophesizes a series of "new Israels"
across the third world--it is mind boggling. At what
point did our national leadership become entirely the
province of religious fanatics and lunatics? Is this
the delayed effect of too much hashish in his
youth--an unintended consequence of the decade of
Love--or is Kristol actually not a delayed victim of
the Grateful Dead, but a member of the Dead Sea sect,
projecting the final coming of the annointed one and
the creation of a world empire loyal to God--I am
tempted to modify this: 'the God of Israel.'

However.

 # # #

As a consequence of my conversations with serious
religious people here who see the events in the Middle
East as the projection of their various teachings--and
all of them fervent supporters of the nincompoop in
the White House--I am uncertain that it is only in the
Islamic third world that apocalyptic fundamentalism
holds sway (a view often claimed by the triumphalist
"the West vs the medieval Islamic world".)