Friday, February 16, 2007

Bad eschatological theology, or just bad Cool Aid?

Is Bush influenced by 'end times' theology?

Indeed, President Bush’s past record suggests that he’s being honest when he denies interest in apocalypticism. It’s true that he talks the language of stark moral dualism when it comes to foreign affairs, and that’s one mark of apocalypticism. But it’s only one mark. His elaborate statements about his religious beliefs have always omitted most of the other key marks. Surely he’s heard plenty of people espouse this aspect of Christian theology, but he has publicly distanced himself from it quite consistently.

Of course in all this it’s important to remember that all anyone can ever know is the pattern and implications of Bush’s public language about religion. What he “really believes” is something we can never know.

Read the whole article at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Learn more about the false doctrine of dispensationalism here




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