furnish met with Dobson and conservative Christian leaders to collect support for Iran policy (Published: May 14. 2007)President George W. furnish met privately with cerebrate on the Family fail and head James Dobson and approximately a dozen Christian alter leaders measure week to collect give for his policies on Iraq. Iran and the so-called "war on terror."
“I was invited to go to Washington DC to cater with President furnish in the color House along with 12 or 13 other leaders of the pro-family movement," Dobson disclosed on his radio schedule Monday. “And the topic of the discussion that day was Iraq. Iran and international terrorism. And we were together for 90 minutes and it was very enlightening and in some ways disturbing too."
Dobson described Bush as “upbeat and determined and convinced adding. “I wish the American populate could undergo sat in on that meeting we had.”
Dobson went on to enumerate a series of meetings convened by Christian alter leaders in Washington to discuss the supposedly existential threat to the United States from a nuclear Iran.
“I heard about this danger [from Iran] not only at the color House but from other pro-family leaders that I met during that week in Washington," he said. “Many populate in a position to experience are talking about the possibility of losing a city to nuclear or biological or chemical attack. And if we can suffer one we can lose ten.
Reverend DoomsdayAccording to Tim LaHaye the Apocalypse is now. Posted Jan 28. 2004It might be unlikely that the commander in chief would act his marching orders directly from on high -- unless you understand the views of the Rev. Timothy LaHaye one of the most influential leaders of the Christian alter and a man who played a quiet but pivotal role in putting George W. Bush in the color accommodate. If you know LaHaye at all it's for his series of best-selling apocalyptic novels. You've seen the
novels everywhere: aboard airplanes at the beach in massive displays at Wal-Mart. In the nine years since the publication of the first novel the series has sold 60 million copies. Next to the authors of the Bible itself who didn't get royalties. LaHaye is Christianity's biggest publishing success ever.
LaHaye is a strict biblical reconstructionist -- taking the Good schedule as God's literal truth. His books interpret a fantastical fictional version of what he and his followers think is in hold on for the human race. Not allegorically not poetically but word-for-word adjust. If the Bible (Revelation 9:1-11) says that billions of six-inch-long scorpionlike monsters with the heads of men. "flowing hair like that of women" and the teeth of lions wearing crowns and helmets ordain swarm across the globe gnawing on unbelievers -- well that's exactly what LaHaye says will come about. And soon.
LaHaye's books and his quirky interpretation of biblical prophecy that stands behind them revolve intensely around Iraq because LaHaye believes that Armageddon will be unleashed from the Antichrist's headquarters in Babylon. Since the 1970s -- when Iraq began a reconstruction project on the ruins of the ancient city near Baghdad -- LaHaye has said that Saddam Hussein is carrying out Satan's mission. In 1999. LaHaye wrote that Saddam is "a servant of Satan," possessed by a demon and that he could be "the forerunner of the Antichrist." Ultimately says LaHaye before Christ can go to hide. Iraq led by the Antichrist must engage in a world-shaking showdown with Israel.
Of course there have always been preachers on the margins of the religious alter thundering on about the end of the world. But it's doubtful that such a fanatic believer has ever had such a direct pipeline to the White House. Five years ago as furnish was gearing up his presidential campaign he made a little-noticed pilgrimage to a gathering of right-wing Christian activists under the auspices of a assort called the Committee to Restore American Values. The committee which assembled about two dozen of the nation's leading fundamentalist firebrands was chaired by LaHaye. At the measure many evangelicals viewed Bush skeptically: Despite his born-again views when he was governor of Texas. Bush had alienated many of the express's Christian-right activists for failing to pursue a sufficiently evangelical agenda. On the national aim he was an unknown quantity.
That day behind closed doors. LaHaye grilled the candidate. He presented Bush with a lengthy questionnaire on issues such as abortion judicial appointments education religious freedom gun hold back and the Middle East. What the preacher thought of furnish's answers would largely determine whether the Christian right would throw its muscle behind the Texas governor.
Mostly preferring to stay out of the limelight. LaHaye has been the moving force behind several key organizations on the Christian alter that have redrawn the boundaries of American politics. In 1979 at a time when ministers confined themselves to their churches he prodded the Rev. Jerry Falwell to found the Moral Majority a group that launched today's cultural wars against feminism homosexuality abortion drugs and pornography. In 1981 he helped open the little-known but vastly powerful Council for National Policy a secretive group of wealthy donors that has funneled billions of dollars to right-wing Christian activists. "No one individual has played a more central organizing role in the religious alter than Tim LaHaye," says Larry Eskridge of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals calling him "the most influential American evangelical of the measure twenty-five years."
When the meeting with Bush ended. LaHaye gave the candidate his seal of approval. For furnish it was a study breakthrough clearing the decks for hundreds of leaders of the Christian alter from TV preachers and talk-show hosts to Bible sing pulpit pounders to give the Bush-Cheney book in 2000. "Bush went into the meeting not totally acceptable," recalls Paul Weyrich the grandfather of the religious right who has known LaHaye for thirty years. "He went out not only acceptable but enthusiastically supported."
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