George W Bush's New 'Crusade': Converting Jews to Christianity

[eridani]

Supporters of Israel who fall for this crap are going to be in for a world of hurt.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/378-bush-administration/20439-george-w-bushs-new-crusade-converting-jews-to-christianity

Some people think George W Bush did as much as he could to bring about Armageddon with his earlier interventions in the Middle East. But not the man himself, apparently. He has signed up for a fundraising event for the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, an organisation which aims to promote the second coming by converting Jews to Christianity, and will speak today at their fundraiser in Irving, Texas.

Such "Messianic Jews" - who accept that Jesus was the promised Messiah - are loathed by most other Jews, and regarded with great suspicion by mainstream Christian denominations. If Jesus really was the promised Messiah, this would restore much of the traditional basis for Christian anti-semitism, which most Christians have struggled against for the last 50 years.

But a belief in the necessary conversion of the Jews still flourishes on the wilder shores of American Christianity. Portions of Biblical prophecy seem to require it. And there is widespread confusion among evangelicals about whether Israel is really a kind of America overseas - a recent poll for the Pew Foundation found that twice as many American Evangelicals as American Jews were unwavering in their support for Israel. This is something that successive Israeli governments have deliberately cultivated.

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Ol' Georgie boy is part of the New Apostolic Reformation (Christian Dominionism), me thinks.

Just like Pappy Bush.

[watoos]

10. And Ted Cruz

[LuvNewcastle]

2. He is really amazing. Somehow he manages to be offensive no matter what he does.

He should teach a class on how to be offensive. Of course, I'm offended every time he takes a breath.

[Mostly Orbiting]

3. Ya know where he could convert a shitload of people to Jeeeeeeeeezus?

Prison. And he could also preach about the danger posed by Satan, his cellmate and former Vice President.

[Enthusiast]

4. +1

[LuvNewcastle]

5. That's exactly where he needs to be making converts.

[Fumesucker]

6. ...

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/08/gog-magog-and-george-bush



Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East.... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its “coalition of the willing” to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”

After the 2003 call, the puzzled French leader didn’t comply with Bush’s request. Instead, his staff asked Thomas Romer, a theologian at the University of Lausanne, to analyze the weird appeal.

....In 2007, Dr. Romer recounted Bush’s strange behavior in Lausanne University’s review, Allez Savoir....Subsequently, ex-President Chirac confirmed the nutty event in a long interview with French journalist Jean-Claude Maurice, who tells the tale in his new book, Si Vous le Répétez, Je Démentirai (If You Repeat it, I Will Deny), released in March by the publisher Plon.

[marble falls]

11. That's some scary stuff right there.

[tclambert]

7. Hmm. His plans typically include torture and killing hundreds of thousands of innocents.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://pastormattblog.com/2013/01/03/no-one-expects-the-secular-inquisition/&h=600&w=750&sz=78&tbnid=YiYXLb0jYQeoLM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=142&zoom=1&usg=__07nY7Tln35KIAeR6pfE1wwus6Mk=&docid=vyqscp6tiuEGFM&sa=X&ei=pV-HUp_2F8iGyAH16oCoBg&ved=0CEwQ9QEwAw

[DFW]

8. I was once asked to donate to a "mission"

Some so-called "Christian" woman was asking for funding for a trip to India to convert people to Christianity.

I answered that I would donate amount equal to the amount she donated for Hindus from India to come to America to convert Americans to Hinduism.

No money changed hands, and for some reason, she did not take kindly to my suggestion.

[Dawson Leery]

17. +1,000,000,000,000

[freshwest]

18. She would have been appalled at the Xmas cards my dad had us mail out one year.

There were boxes of them specially made up, good card paper and metallic colors, like little booklets.

All philosophies and faiths got equal billing, just the way my family saw them, as believers in secularism.

Each had a symbol and saying that was translated. Included were Hindu, Zoroastrianism, Baha'i, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity and others.

The important part was the message inscribed on the facing pages, but it was all the same:

The Golden Rule.

Sans all the supernatural or cultural differences, that's what remains of worth. A person doesn't have to subscribe to a belief system to get there.

JMHO.

[MisterP]

20. little does she know the Christians are either Papists or Maoists there...

[SummerSnow]

9. fowarding this to Netanyahu

lol

[LuvNewcastle]

12. Netanyahu is probably friends with these people.

The Dominionist Christians are strongly allied with the Israeli RWers. The Dominionists are in Congress too, and they have influence with a lot of wealthy Americans. They're supporters of the Likud Party and other radical elements of Israelis who want to kick out all of the Palestinians and Muslims. The Dominionists believe that the Jews have to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem before Armageddon and then the Second Coming of Jesus. The Israeli radicals remain allies of the Dominionists because they're politically and economically useful.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Forward it to the Simon Wiesenthal center while you're at it.

I think they still hunt war criminals with NAZI connections.

[WinkyDink]

13. The stupidity, she burns.

[tavernier]

15. Reminiscent of Manson and Helter Skelter

These power mad sociopaths with their god complex, always with a grand plan. Manson murdered dozens, Bush thousands.

[BlueJazz]

16. Next he'll be doing a TV show called "Dancing with the Crooks"

[Archae]

19. Nothing new for the Bush family.

George Elder whored himself to "Reverend" Moon, giving speeches and taking from them millions.