Indeed, that was interesting. Always good to hear any rebuttals that come along. Seems the Grist article stirred up a lot more commotion than I thought.

Interesting article on BeliefNet about the Grist article here

As well it should. 

Comment spam has a very short life around here.

Albeit spotting it for a very, very brief moment.

No, a true sign of the apocalypse is when I spot a comment spam on Les’ blog for the stuff that Bob Dole used to be a spokesman for … :-O

I’m not sure that 231 legislators getting high marks from “religious rights organizations” necessarily means that the 231 are, in fact, dominionists out to conquer the world for Christ.  Nor is Zell Miller quoting Amos on the House floor proof that he’s out to cut down all the trees in Jesus’ name.

That said, folks who seem to have an inside scoop on what they need to do to trigger Christ’s second coming, let alone assume that it depends on setting up some sort of tree-cutting-down Christ-touting empire, must have a really weird way of interpreting Matthew 24 (which is about as close as you’ll get to finding me making an argument based on Scripture).

Nehemiah Scudder’s knocking on the door already.

Add to that the chilling report I read in ‘The Spiegel’ last week about a neocon conspiracy* to systematically starve the US government of funds (to pay for welfare programs and educucation etc…), and you REALLY start to worry about the US. Let us all hope for a big win for Kerry next week.

Though one has to wonder – you had 8 years of peaceful, uneventful, mostly happy Clinton-time (at least if you weren’t frothing at the mouth about Monica) and the The Shrub happens and 4 years later all things have gone to hell. I fear there’s larger things yet afoot for one election to end them.

*I’m a bit hesitant to use such a description, as it always sounds a bit kooky.

That’s it.  I’m going back to bed.  Wake me when the Goetterdaemmerung is here and Heimdall blows his horn.