Re: Reagan was a superstitious religious loon, like Bush

(pope_about_town at Xyahoo.com) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> While he was running for office in 1980, candidate Reagan announced
> during an interview with televangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker that "We
> may be the generation that sees Armageddon." 
> 
> 
> But that certainly wasn't the first time. At a 1971 banquet for
> California state senator James Mills, then-Governor Reagan broke it
> all down for the honoree during the dessert course: 
> 

My favorite Ronnie story, besides the one about the guy being too old,
senile and too close to the end of his term to impeach, is the story
Ronnie told of his service in WWII, including a tale of a B-17 gunner.
 He used to tell this story a lot, until someone pointed out that he
was never in the service and the story he was telling was in fact the
plot of a movie he had made.

Raygun continued to tell the story.







> 
> "In the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, it says that the land of Israel will
> come under attack by the armies of the ungodly nations, and it says
> that Libya will be among them. Do you understand the significance of
> that? Libya has now gone Communist, and that's a sign that the day of
> Armageddon isn't far off. 
> 
> "Biblical scholars have been saying for generations that Gog must be
> Russia. What other powerful nation is to the north of Israel? None.
> But it didn't seem to make sense before the Russian revolution, when
> Russia was a Christian country. Now it does, now that Russia has
> become communistic and atheistic, now that Russia has set itself
> against God. Now it fits the description of Gog perfectly. 
> 
> "For the first time ever, everything is in place for the battle of
> Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. It can't be too long now.
> Ezekiel says that fire and brimstone will be rained upon the enemies
> of God's people. That must mean that they will be destroyed by nuclear
> weapons." 
> 
> In an interview published in a December 1983 issue of People magazine,
> the most powerful man in the world revealed that: 
> 
> 
> "[T]heologians had been studying the ancient prophecies -- what would
> portend the coming of Armageddon-- and have said that never, in the
> time between the prophecies up untiI now, has there ever been a time
> in which so many of the prophecies are coming together. There have
> been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was
> coming, and so forth, but never anything like this." 
> 
> He was also an ardent supporter of school prayer and anti-abortion
> laws. He withheld funding from international contraception programs.
> Over complaints by the ACLU, he officially declared 1983 to be "The
> Year of the Bible." And he appointed likeminded Jesus freaks to his
> cabinet. During a 1981 Congressional hearing, Reagan's first Secretary
> of the Interior, James Watt, revealed the depth of his commitment to
> preserving America's environment for posterity: 
> 
> "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the
> Lord returns." 
> 
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> 
> "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism 
> by those who have not got it." - G. B. Shaw 
>  
>  
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> 
>  Cowboys and Idiots: The Reagan Administration
> Ronnies' "Brave freedom fighters" are now Bushs'
> "evildoers" who "hate our freedoms".
> http://www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/reagan.html
> 
> The Rise and Fall of the Holy Roller Empire
> The God-Awful Truth about Christian Zionism
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