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[Joseph T]

  Posted this earlier, but just wanted to be sure it got through  
since it never came to my email box. It's pretty much saying what  
robin just said in my my own words.


On May 2, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Joseph T wrote:
There's a lot going on here and part of the purpose as I see it is to  
show the descent into hell of  Bush/Dobson/ dominionist/imperial/post  
-constantine Christianity and some of the reasons for that descent.   
He's laying it on pretty thick here. Webb is being murdered at the  
orders of the calvinist fanatic Vibe, with the apparent approval of  
the Governor of Jeshimon ( a clear stand -in for GWB as gov of Texas,  
as Ronin so lucidly pointed out) in the violent edges  of the Empire  
which considering the language about attracting evildoers sounds like  
a reference to Iraq. The reps of the church are in a macabre  
collusion with the machinery of death.

In the real world this same theology has risen to dominate American  
policy and a major source of that theology is this apocalyptic vision  
with roots in Zoroastrianism, Chosen People ism, nationalism and racism.