Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> clipka wrote:
>
> > Read John's Apocalypsis, particularly the sections about the Big Bad Beast
> > apparently conspiring to unite all nations against God's Good Guys.
>
> Er, right... because we can't have all nations uniting to bring world
> peace, or something like that. It just doesn't make sense that the
> altruistic goal of peacful unity could be considered evil.
>
> I realise, of course, that world peace is improbable, we as humans will
> always have something to squabble about.

That's not the way those particular type of christians you were talking about
are thinking.

They do interpret John's Apocalypsis to be a prophecy, and they expect things to
happen as described there (or as they read them to be described there).

This, most particularly, includes a world-wide government by the bad guys
persecuting God's chosen ones; only after that most glorious battle at
Harmagedon would this be overthrown, and replaced by another world-wide
government of the Messiah himself.

So whatever first world-wide government there would ever be, according to
fundamental christian's interpretation of the bible, those must be the bad guys
mentioned in John's Apocalypsis.

That's the answer to your question. Not my invention, so don't shoot the
messenger.

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