[Buddha-l] Gog and Magog

[Joy Vriens]

Richard,
>The state of  
>Christianity in contemporary America is not a pretty sight. 

In 2003 Bush tried to convince France to go to war. At one point he made a reference to Gog and Magog being at work in the Middle-East and the biblical propecies becoming reality. As Chirac and his counselors didn't know what to make of it, they asked theology professor Thomas Römer of Lausanne how to interpret this biblical reference.

Well, one always hopes that the portraits of Bush as a bigot are very much exaggerated, but "Gog and Magog" and "prophecies coming out" as an argument to convince one's allies to go to war ?! 

"Dans "Allez savoir", Thomas Römer précise: Gog et Magog sont deux créatures qui apparaissent dans la Genèse, et surtout dans deux chapitres des plus obscurs du "Livre d'Ezéchiel" de l'Ancien Testament. Prophétie apocalyptique d'une armée mondiale livrant bataille finale à Israël. 

"Cette confrontation est voulue par Dieu, qui veut profiter de ce conflit pour faire table rase des ennemis de son peuple, avant que ne débute un âge nouveau", poursuit Thomas Römer." 

http://www.rue89.com/2007/09/17/un-petit-scoop-sur-bush-chirac-dieu-gog-et-magog#comments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog