Re: Evangelical Christianity Wrongly Maligned (was Re: Chavez Likes Euro?)

"Aaron J. Seigo" <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 09:19, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Wednesday June 25, 2003 08:11, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > For example, I very strongly believe that anyone believing in Rapture
> > should *NOT* have control of the US nuclear missile arsenal, that is
> > even more insane than Iraq having nuclear weapons, and since I take many
> > in the Bush Administration as falling into the Rapture camp, well, you
> > do the math . . . .
>
> So much for freedom of religion.

i suppose one could look at it that way. i also suppose one could say that 
someone with a belief that the manifest destiny of the world is for it be 
anhialated in an Armageddon scenario would be a potentially dangerous person 
to put in charge of the Nukes.

personally i'd go one step further and just say that there isn't a single soul 
on this planet who would honestly be willing to wield such power that should 
be allowed to do so. there are those who would take on the responsibility of 
controlling nuclear power to ensure others who would actually use them aren't 
in control. then there are also those who would like to be in control of them 
to use them as a big stick.

the former shouldn't be cursed with such a burdon, and the latter ought to be 
kept as far away from any position of power as possible. we just have to find 
out how to put the damn genie back in the bottle.

"Those who least want positions of power are those who should be most welcome 
to them."

to bring it back to the religious topic, Jesus was a great example of this. he 
spoke of the person who sat at the foot of the table deserving the most 
honoured position, washed the feet of his disciples, turned down a populace 
offer to become King, etc... 

i'm not religious, but i respect and appreciate what Jesus stood for, talked 
about and did ...

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