burn away your sins
Dec. 8th, 2004 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyThe Afghanistan thing in my last (locked) post got me thinking. About a certain type of (not to beat a phrase into the ground) non-reality-based thinking.
The world -- or at least your part of it -- is going to hell.
You will suffer. Your children will be taken from you. Everything you own will go up in flames. A terrible war will be fought, and you'll have to choose your side very carefully. You may very well burn to death and your fate will seem very random -- except by those who know better than you do.
Your reward, at the end of this? Happiness/freedom/democracy.
Neoconservative foreign policy, or Left Behind-style apocalyptic Christianity?
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Speaking of which, let's take a brilliant book series and bowdlerize the film versions so religious Americans won't hate us!
The entire trilogy is about religion and God, you morons.
The world -- or at least your part of it -- is going to hell.
You will suffer. Your children will be taken from you. Everything you own will go up in flames. A terrible war will be fought, and you'll have to choose your side very carefully. You may very well burn to death and your fate will seem very random -- except by those who know better than you do.
Your reward, at the end of this? Happiness/freedom/democracy.
Neoconservative foreign policy, or Left Behind-style apocalyptic Christianity?
*
Speaking of which, let's take a brilliant book series and bowdlerize the film versions so religious Americans won't hate us!
The entire trilogy is about religion and God, you morons.
