[excerpt] "With the post-World War II rise to political dominion of religious capitalism (at the expense of socialism and liberalism), western empiricism has been replaced with religion and imperialism and the western cultural world has been delivered straight-way into an unGodly religious quagmire of both global proportions and millennial significance. Old Testament Roman "Christianity" is in bed with Judaism, despite their utterly different interpretations of the first Christian. Judaism and Romanism stand against Islamism and vice versa."
Dr. Lower will go on to describe how each of the three major one-God religions - based on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible history and theology - are engaged in a contempary long-term "bloody war" founded on religious conflict.
[excerpt] "The children of the God of Judaism (Yehweh), the children of the God of Old Testament Romanism (Jehovah) and the children of the God of Islamism (Allah) are all at bloody war. That, of course, is nothing new, being something of a western tradition. Over the past two millennia, all three branches of western religion have taken their opportunities to sack Jerusalem in order to oust their religious siblings. Since Gulf War I, this unholy religious triumvirate has been poised against itself in the Middle East.
Ariel Sharon speaks for God, George W. Bush speaks for God, and Osama bin Laden speaks for God. All three believe in apocalypse now. Outside of that, there is little or no evidence that they agree on anything except that they are all doing the work of god and that god is vengeful, self-righteous and self-terminating. None of these spokesmen ever question their own version of god. All question the other's version. More than anything, these competing theologies reflect a common self-righteousness that has nothing to do with God or Democracy."
Reference my earlier article that touched on the consequence of a literal interpretion of the Bible and Biblical Prophecy: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/New_...
...and the following paragraphs from Come on Guys! Where is She? (June 2002):
Defenders of religious creeds use the word "myth" to characterize religious beliefs that conflict with their own, saying, "Your assumptions are not as valid as my assumptions. In fact, your assumptions are myth while my assumptions are truth."
