War Support Among Evangelicals Collapses

Friday, October 27, 2006

Bush Incompetence Said to Delay Second Coming

In the past 30 days, support for the Iraq War among white evangelicals has fallen from 70 percent to 58 percent.

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Of course, evangelicals like other Americans are seeing articles like this one in which Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blames the US military for things going wrong in Iraq, denies that he has accepted the benchmarks set by the US ambassador, maintains he could do a better job with his own army if the US would just get out of the way, and downplays the role of Shiite militias in the country's violence. The tirades came in response to al-Maliki's perception that Bush is playing politics with Iraq for the election season, and is doing and saying things that could cause Maliki's government to fall. The tiff is not an edifying spectacle for the American public, which is paying $336 billion to watch it and has seen 24,000 of its troops dead and wounded.

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The Houston-based preacher said he believes that the Bush administration has delayed the second coming because U.S. foreign policy has blocked Christian missionaries from working in Iraq, Iran and Syria. . . "Somebody needs to say enough is enough," he said to worshippers who stood, waved and called out in support. . . Paul, who claimed to support conservative political leaders in the past, is launching "a crusade to save America from the wrath of God and Republicans abusing their power," according to his press materials. . . "God is mad at this country," Paul told the congregation. He described the war in Iraq as "unnecessary genocide."


Can you say, "amen!" and "halleluja!"?

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The significance of the enormous decline in approval of the war among white evangelicals is that they are dispirited. A few may even vote Democrat. But generally speaking, the dispirited often simply do not vote at all. White evangelicals go to the polls at higher than average rates, so if they sit this one out because of discontent over Iraq (and the bumbling Bush interfering with Jesus's Second Coming), then the Dems take both chambers of Congress hands down.

posted by Juan @ 10/27/2006 06:30:00 AM 11 comments

http://www.juancole.com/2006/10/war-support-among-evangelicals.html#comments

but the reason is bizarre: Because he's delayed the Second Coming?? I have to say, Jesus must be a pretty damn lame excuse for a Messiah if he'd let a fuckwit like Bush interfere with his plans. Either that, or the Fundies' theology is seriously messed up... But then, we knew that.

to go along with the notion that the bushocons are evidence of the wrath of god. If I believed god had any wrath.

:kick: