Quote:
Originally Posted by Deckard
"We may be the generation that sees Armageddon."
- Ronald Reagan, in a 1980 interview with Jim Bakker
"For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the second coming of Christ."
- Ronald Reagan, commenting in 1971 to James Mills regarding events in Libya
and somewhere I have quotes from the Bush administation members who believed in the rapture.
So much for the Seneca (or was it Lucretius?) quote about religion being regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Still, it supports my 'president-as-puppet' theory of power...
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this post offends me, not only in that you make the implication that all religion is a foolish notion, but that you make the implication that everyone who follows a religion must be a fool. now, i'm not sure if this report about bush is true; it sounds like horseshit, but regardless of that, his supposed quote is a different case entirely than Ronald Reagan's. Ronald Reagan expressed his personal opinion that Christ may come again very soon, and to a religious person, the rapid advance of technology to the point that terroristic acts are carried out daily, and the similarity to some events in the bible, may lead a person to think the end times are coming; whether you agree with that or not is irrelevent as it is a personal opinion. Bush's supposed quote is entirely different because that would mean that he based an entire military operation and the welfare of the country on such a personal opinion. The argument should be against Bush risking the lives of soldiers and taking the lives of civilians because of a personal religious belief, not a call for historic quotes from Republicans to bash their personal beliefs.