The Rapture Index and the U.S. election

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The Rapture Index and the U.S. election

Embassy, November 3rd, 2004
By Bill Moyers
http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2004/november/3/oped/

How do we explain the possibility that a close election ... could turn on
several million good and decent citizens who believe in the Rapture Index?
That's what I said - the Rapture Index. Google it and you will understand
why the best-selling books in America today are the twelve volumes of the
Left Behind series which have earned multi-millions of dollars for their
co-authors who earlier this year completed a triumphant tour of the Bible
Belt whose buckle holds in place George W. Bush's armour of the Lord. These
true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th
century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from
the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be
literally true.

According to this narrative, Jesus will return to earth only when certain
conditions are met: when Israel has been established as a state; when Israel
then occupies the rest of its "biblical lands;" when the third temple has
been rebuilt on the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa
mosques; and, then, when legions of the Antichrist attack Israel. This will
trigger a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon during which all the
Jews who have not converted will be burned. Then the Messiah returns to
earth. The Rapture occurs once the big battle begins. "True believers" will
be lifted out of their clothes and transported to heaven where, seated next
to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious
opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts and frogs during the
several years of tribulation which follow.

I'm not making this up. We've reported on these people for our weekly
broadcast on PBS, following some of them from Texas to the West Bank. They
are sincere, serious, and polite as they tell you that they feel called to
help bring the Rapture on as fulfillment of biblical prophecy. That's why
they have declared solidarity with Israel and the Jewish settlements and
backed up their support with money and volunteers. It's why they have staged
confrontations at the old temple site in Jerusalem. It's why the invasion of
Iraq for them was a warm-up act, predicted in the 9th chapter of the Book of
Revelations where four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates"
will be released "to slay the third part of men." As the British writer
George Monbiot has pointed out, for these people the Middle East is not a
foreign policy issue, it's a biblical scenario, a matter of personal belief.
A war with Islam in the Middle East is not something to be feared but
welcomed; if there's a conflagration there, they come out winners on the far
side of tribulation, inside the pearly gates, in celestial splendor, supping
on ambrosia to the accompaniment of harps plucked by angels.

One estimate puts these people at about l5 per cent of the electorate. Most
are likely to vote Republican; they are part of the core of George W. Bush's
base support. He knows who they are and what they want. When the President
asked Ariel Sharon to pull his tanks out of Jenin in 2002, over one hundred
thousand angry Christian fundamentalists barraged the White House with
emails and Mr. Bush never mentioned the matter again.

Not coincidentally, the administration recently put itself solidly behind
Ariel Sharon's expansions of settlements on the West Bank. In George
Monbiot's analysis, the President stands to lose fewer votes by encouraging
Israeli expansion into the West Bank than he stands to lose by restraining
it. "He would be mad to listen to these people, but he would also be mad not
to." No wonder Karl Rove walks around the West Wing whistling "Onward
Christian Soldiers." He knows how many votes he is likely to get from these
pious folk who believe that the Rapture Index now stands at 144 --- just one
point below the critical threshold at which point the prophecy is fulfilled,
the whole thing blows, the sky is filled with floating naked bodies, and the
true believers wind up at the right hand of God. With no regret for those
left behind. (See George Monbiot. The Guardian, April 20, 2004.)

I know, I know: You think I am bonkers... But this is just the point:
Journalists who try to tell these stories, connect these dots, and examine
these links are demeaned, disparaged, and dismissed. This is the very kind
of story that illustrates the challenge journalists face in a world driven
by ideologies that are stoutly maintained despite being contradicted by what
is generally accepted as reality.

--Bill Moyers, Excerpts from an address to the Society of Professional
Journalists 2004 National Convention

 Sing this at the polls NOV 2     SING THE VOTE
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/contentPlay/shockwave.jsp?id=this_land&preplay=1&ratingBar=off

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE in song is the first step to a fascism free planet
"THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, THIS LAND IS MY LAND, THIS LAND IS MADE FOR YOU AND ME"

IMAGINE: WE are children of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; WE ALL have a right to be here

START SINGING THE PLANET'S ANTHEM AT ALL EVENTS TO SHOW HOW "WE" HAVE ALREADY VOTED.
This would get some air time if we did it at GOP campaign events even in congress this Summer and fall and beyond after all it is the anthem of the Age of Aquarius no. We suggested that "THIS LAND" be the Global Village Planetary anthem at Woodies celebration in San Francisco at the Geary Theater in 1967. It was seconded by three ambassadors and has become the second third fourth etc. anthems to many countries.

FOLKSAY(people say) ............ has become Our defacto Global Village Planetary anthem and in essence we voted for citizen empowerment as we sung it. Now let's get it officially on record by singing it everywhere as direct democracy.
        THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS is the reality at hand! The children of the universe, the right to be here generation _ the meek taking their prophetic inheritance out of probate is not a conspiracy.

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