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A Little Scoop on Bush, Chirac, God, Gog and Magog

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    A Little Scoop on Bush, Chirac, God, Gog and Magog
    By Jacques Sterchi
    Rue89 in partnership with La Libert , Fribourg

    Monday 17 September 2007

    In 2003, University of Lausanne theology professor Thomas R mer received a telephone call from the Elys e. Jacques Chirac's advisers wanted to know more about Gog and Magog ... two mysterious names pronounced by George W. Bush while he was attempting to convince France to enter the war in Iraq at his side. In its September edition, the University of Lausanne's review, Allez savoir, reveals this story that could seem fantastic did it not, as Allez savoir's Editor-in-Chief Jocelyn Rochat emphasizes, reveal the religious underpinnings of Bush's policy.

    Apocalyptic prophecy: Bush would have declared to Chirac that Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and that the Biblical prophecies were in the process of being fulfilled. That was several weeks before the intervention in Iraq. The French president, to whom the names of Gog and Magog meant nothing, was stupefied.

    In Allez savoir, Thomas R mer details: Gog and Magog are two creatures who appear in Genesis, and especially in the most arcane chapters of the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel. An apocalyptic prophecy of a global army giving final battle in Israel.

    "This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins," continues Thomas R mer.

    According to him, George W. Bush is not the first to look for an incarnation of Gog and Magog on earth. Ronald Reagan had deemed that the cold war and the atomic bomb's existence made Ezekiel's prophecy realizable....

    If today the University of Lausanne reveals these explanations Thomas R mer supplied to Jacques Chirac, it's because the latter has left the Elys e. For Jocelyn Rochat, this little international policy professional secret raises a vast question: our lack of religious education, our ignorance of Scriptures at a time when religious foundations are far more crucial than we'd like to believe in political and military decisions. Religion is not confined to the private sphere, Jocelyn Rochat concludes. A parameter to take into account "at the risk of no longer understanding the way the world works today."

  

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With deepest respect towards

 Fri, 09/05/2008 - 09:48 — B e l i e v e r (not verified)
With deepest respect towards the Holy Scriptures that Christians possess, I must point out that over many centuries there have been many human-made edits and revisions to the Bible. While in principle the Holy Scripture is a guide for present and future, in practice it is often impossible to verify the authenticity of its passages and chapters. The only solution is to cross-reference Bible with the Quran on the passages relating to Gog/Magog to achieve a truthful account, as the Quran has never been altered since its Divine Revelation. This, however, would require the Christians to accept Quran's divine origin, and let go of the social anti-Muslim doctrine, which in the current socio-political context might be possible only for the most faithful and objective of believers. All believers are brothers, and on the Day of Judgement we shall be reunited by His divine command. Amin.

With deepest respect towards

 Wed, 09/24/2008 - 16:57 — avi (not verified)
With deepest respect towards the holy scriptures that mulims possess (koran), but maybe it is just possible that the koran is just as man-made (if not, more) as the jewish-christian scriptures that Believer believes are man-made ...?

Neither man nor woman should

 Fri, 09/11/2009 - 01:21 — At-ONE-ment (not verified)
Neither man nor woman should seek to find God in a book. There is no 'scripture' more 'holy' than the true and direct experience of the All. Books and scriptures are used simply to confuse and manipulate people into doing things that they KNOW are wrong. Case in point Bush and his psychotic statement to Chirac. But the Muslim scripture about an eye for an eye is no less psychotic. This is the 'Divine Command': STOP killing! Bring the war mongers to justice. Use the mind and the heart to set an example to future generations that there is no place in COLLECTIVE human experience for war mongers and those who devalue and exploit life. Use the legal systems of the world to accomplish this. We MUST show the future generations how to use temperament to achieve justice and harmony. To the atheists, proof of 'God' is the fact that we exist. However you call it, we exist and it is the use of mans full faculties that reveals the transcendental. The first step towards the transcendental is the choice to STOP killing and believing in exploitative ideologies. So let Us stop quibbling about 'holy' scriptures, and START commencing the ACTIONS to create a just and fair world. The kind of world, that might make the Transcendental WANT to be revealed. Mika-IL

If you're willing to examine

 Sat, 10/17/2009 - 22:06 — Starchild (not verified)
If you're willing to examine Christianity with a skeptical eye and see whether doctrines that you may believe in meet the tests of fact and reason, I recommend checking out the following: www.EvilBible.com www.zeitgeistmovie.com (the first segment of the film)