Steven Johnson posted;
A recent comment by the esteemed Mr. Malloy got me to thinking...
The problem I always have when I hear catchy little phrases like: "We Evangelicals see W's [Bush's] election as the will of G-d", or "It is Allah's will"
The scenario which is being played out was prophecized 4000 years ago, ergo it is the will of G-d. The Islamists believe that Allah has blessed their enterprise too. The fact that Allah isn't god has no bearing on their behavior, they believe that he is god, and they will do what the Quran tells them to do.
the face of the "Will of God", this inevitably invites others to take control over their powerless lives. All the better if these self-proclaimed leaders state they are on a first name basis with God, or Allah.
That's why men study the scriptures. The Islamists do the same with the Quran.
As human beings, most of us (if we're lucky) will be confronted with events one is given the rare opportunity to question the underlying Blueprints of Life - for which one in the past had always assumed had been carved in stone.
But you see it is carved in stone
Regardless of whether one is an Atheist or not, I would hope most individuals would be able to find deep down within themselves a spark of divinity, or least the proxy of divinity.
Have you ever heard of eschatology? Of the verses which were prophetic at the time they were written, 75% have come to pass. Does that suggest something about the other 25%? Further more, this war which is between
us and Islam, was not my idea, but it was prophecized, and we are powerless to stop it. The election of W, along with the controversy surrounding it, and the war were all predicted in the Bible Code.
As for electing Bush, I certainly didn't vote for him.
Of course you didn't
