The Rapture and the Real World: Mike Pompeo Blends Beliefs and Policy

[WuWei]

@Tilly_jow

Because it can’t.

Why not? Are you taking them on faith?

[WuWei]

@Guntsu

Disagree all you like, you can keep believing in multiplying fish and bread

I will look elsewhere

Have a nice night.

[Guntsu]

Planning on it bud, its Friday!

[Ex-Pat]

Based on nuclear fallout shelters.

[WuWei]

@Blackwolf

@WuWei

It is irrelevant for me.

Is it irrelevant to Pompeo?

I would say no, but I haven’t talked to him. I’m taking the word of a New York Times editor. Of course he’s probably never talked to the Secretary either.

Is it any more concerning than any other strongly held belief? If so, how so?

[Tilly_jow]

@WuWei

@Tilly_jow

Because it can’t.

Why not? Are you taking them on faith?

@WuWei

Are you sure you know what that word means? What fallacious argument have I made?

I see what you’re doing here.

[WuWei]

@Ex-Pat

Based on nuclear fallout shelters.

I don’t see the logic.

[Blackwolf]

Are you familiar with the basics of Evangelical beliefs when it comes to End Times and the Rapture?

[WuWei]

@Tilly_jow

@WuWei

@Tilly_jow

Because it can’t.

Why not? Are you taking them on faith?

@WuWei

Are you sure you know what that word means? What fallacious argument have I made?

I see what you’re doing here.

All I’m doing in your case is waiting on you.

[WuWei]

@Blackwolf

Are you familiar with the basics of Evangelical beliefs when it comes to End Times and the Rapture?

Of course. I have read the Bible several times. It is a continuous process for me.

How is it any different than any other strongly held belief?

[SottoVoce]

@Smyrna

@Cynic

Because people who dictate policy based on fantasy are not in the best interest of the United States?

…and yet, in creating our country, the founding fathers purposefully recognized The Creator?

I disagree. I’m assuming you’re referencing the Declaration of Independence with the “Creator” reference. That term has a different meaning to Deists, of which Jefferson and Franklin belong.

[Blackwolf]

@WuWei

Of course. I have read the Bible several times. It is a continuous process for me.

This is about more than just reading the Bible, it’s about understanding what most Evangelicals believe happens in the End Times, and in particular America’s role to play in it.

What is your understanding of that belief? I’m curious what you’ve heard.

[WuWei]

@SottoVoce

I disagree. I’m assuming you’re referencing the Declaration of Independence with the “Creator” reference. That term has a different meaning to Deists, of which Jefferson and Franklin belong.

What was their meaning?

[WuWei]

@Blackwolf

This is about more than just reading the Bible, it’s about understand what most Evangelicals believe happens in the End Times, and in particular America’s role to play in it.

What is your understanding of that belief? I’m curious what you’ve heard.

Again, I’m not discussing specific dogma. If you don’t like the example, use your own.

[Axxowiz]

Lucifer is real and she lives next door to me, meanest lady I have ever seen.

[Blackwolf]

@WuWei

Again, I’m not discussing specific dogma. If you don’t like the example, use your own.

Specific dogma (namely, the one Pompeo believes in) is germane to the discussion as to whether that dogma is problematic for America given the role he plays in its government.

What example are you referencing?

[WuWei]

@Blackwolf

@WuWei

Again, I’m not discussing specific dogma. If you don’t like the example, use your own.

Specific dogma (namely, the one Pompeo believes in) is germane to the discussion as to whether that dogma is problematic for America given the role he plays in its government.

What example are you referencing?

So you want to pick winners and losers from among all the strongly held beliefs?

The Pompeo example.

[WuWei]

Look at the thread and article title. Blends Faith and Policy

Blends. Interesting choice of words.

[NJBob]

@WuWei

@NJBob

@Guntsu

People that dont guide governmental policies based on their own personal religious beliefs Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Satanists, Buddhist, or any other.

Besides its not like every Christian religion believes in a rapture…

Rapturists ignore scripture when it suites them. They should look to Matthew 24:36.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

Nobody knows exactly how it will go. I’m not here to discuss dogma. This is politics.

And that doesn’t change or refute what I posted.

[Blackwolf]

@WuWei

So you want to pick winners and losers from among all the strongly held beliefs?

The Pompeo example.

Winners and losers in terms of belief has nothing to do with it, and is a dance I’ll let you twirl others about with.

What interests me is Pompeo’s specific beliefs, and what effects they might have on US foreign policy. Are they in line with typical Evangelical eschatological beliefs, specifically the role/fate of Israel, Russia, and America?