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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMike Pence and Mike Pompeo belong to a doomsday cult -- and may be trying to bring on the apocalypse
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/mike-pence-mike-pompeo-belong-doomsday-cult-may-trying-bring-apocalypse/President Donald Trumps vice president and secretary of state appear to have a conflict between their private religious beliefs and their public duties, according to a financial journalist.
Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo are each a genuine, end-of-days, believer in the apocalypse, and Financial Times journalist Edward Luce said their religious beliefs about the end times exerts a troubling influence on their duties.
Generally I believe a public figures beliefs should be irrelevant to their job, Luce wrote. Whether theyre atheist, Opus Dei, Buddhist or Muslim, should have no bearing on our assessment of their fitness for office. Yet I cant help but feel anxious that both of Donald Trumps main global envoys, Pompeo and Pence, have a conflict between their private beliefs and what they publicly claim to be doing.
Luce argued that both Trump administration officials were part of a millenarian cult, and he worried their militant creed would influence their public policies to spark a final conflagration in which the righteous will vanquish the wicked.
Call me a serial fretter, but I dont take comfort from the fact that Pence is a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief, Luce wrote. Nor do I see Pompeo as one of the grown-ups restraining Trump. Hes an enabler, not a preventer. Where Trump goes, Pompeo will follow. Lets hope Trump never gets religion.
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superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)Delusional and dangerously suicidal
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)Betsy DeVos.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Hagee was some sort of advisor to McCain in 08 until M$M got a clue about this belief.
Establishment of Israel as a state, move Capitol to Jerusalem, rebuild the Temple-- all pre-conditions.
Jews must convert. Those who do not will die horribly. This belief is behind the many missionaries going to Israel 'to convert the Jews'.
dchill
(38,451 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,863 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,262 posts)The suicide cult wants to take everyone with them.
KCDebbie
(664 posts)The part of the Christian doctrine that calls for the world as we know it to come to an end and all Jews must die (except for that special group of 144k) so that Jesus can return?
You mean that cult?
phylny
(8,368 posts)intervene on behalf of Almighty God. Like they think He needs THEIR help.
And I say this as an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)this not really apart of the bible as far as I know. It is a crazy notion that has swept some evangelical christian groups
and to think they can force a gods hand shows a deep lack of understanding of the bible
ananda
(28,837 posts)Environmental policies are bringing on
serious extinction events, and historically
warming and climate chaos are catastrophic
for large life forms..
diva77
(7,629 posts)cult tactics.
Better to focus on what the majority wants to achieve rather than letting these death fetishists control the message.
PufPuf23
(8,756 posts)for public service much less anything to do with National Security or National Defense.
I am all for religious freedom and religious freedom is a cornerstone of the Nation but those rights are truncated when they put others and the Nation at risk or result in actual damage. One would think there ought be a limitation to these rights in the public sphere based upon at human history and the wars and genocides and persecutions that result from or are justified by religious beliefs.
I do not believe that religions should receive tax benefits and should be taxed as any other citizens and institutions. The religious and religious institutions do mix politics which is supposedly not allowed to the degree one can make an easy argument that a main function is to undermine the Nation and shift money and power to specific religions.
The mass of religious people tend to be a brainwashed voting block of "believers" and cynics that use the situation for their own ends of fame, power, money, and ego.