LaHaye’s agenda mirrors that of Falwell’s; and is heart and passion of so-called Religious Right in America. Restoring Nation back to Absolute Values—family, pro-life (a.k.a., “the culture of life”), anti-abortion (just so you know what pro-life is), anti-gay agenda (the whole thing), pro-marriage (between Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve), pro-prayer in public schools, pro-displaying of religious symbols and artifacts like Ten Commandments wherever and whenever, strong “national defense” (as defined as “whatever it takes to destroy barbaric infidels”), etc., etc., etc.

NOT LEFT BEHIND – JUST DeLAY (BOBSIE TWIN #2)

A little evangelical background on Rep. DeLay would be helpful . . . so, after a couple of terms in Texas Legislature (after a rather lackluster business life as a pest control operator), DeLay made a move on US Congress, running in suburbs of Houston, TX and winning! He headed off to Washington as a freshman Rep. and led charge against NEA (National Endowment for Arts)—and got a whole lot of fame for DEFUNDING THE LEFT (especially with NEA’s propensity to spend huge sums of money on absurd and even pornographic “art”).

Notwithstanding crusading efforts to purge Left of its immoral efforts, DeLay himself had his own demons to corral. It was in mid-1980s when booze-drinkin’ (similar to President Bush’s story) DeLay rediscovered his Baptist roots and through a fellow Republican colleague, Frank Wolfe, was handed a tape by Dr. James Dobson—and rest is evangelical history. DeLay claims he had a real born-again experience—much like President Bush. And, like Bush, eventually got involved in an “accountability group” compliments of Promise Keepers; then, on to Southern Baptist, avant-garde, Sugar Land First Baptist Church, where DeLay’s A-A-mens could be easily heard, as Pastor Scott Rambo (who, as Dubose describes was “as charismatic and engaging as Bill Clinton at a town hall meeting”) preached to thousands who’d come each week to hear his “seeker-friendly” messages.

Yep, like President Bush, DeLay’s faith has utterly energized his politics. Listen to DeLay’s “mission statement” for America:

“To bring us back to Constitution and to Absolute Truth that has been manipulated and destroyed by a liberal worldview.” (p. 58 – The Hammer)

BUSH, THE PATRICIAN vs. DeLAY, THE PLEBEIAN or THE OIL MAN vs. THE BUG MAN

Continuing on with DeLay’s evangelical roots (his political evolution and machinations are also really interesting—but later on those) . . .

Like Clinton, DeLay grew up in a dysfunctional home where his father was an alcoholic. He hailed from “roughneck camps of Texas oil patch—home to guys who drilled wells and ran casing for bullies who owned royalties and ran state. His patrimony was sort of dysfunction that is psychological and biological inheritance of children of alcoholics.” (p. 9 – The Hammer).

On other hand, Bush picked up Texan drawl, but, let’s face it, his family richly provided him an East Coast prep school, bachelor’s degree from Yale, an MBA from Harvard—and, being grandson of a U.S. senator and son of a vice president and president—man, maybe, after all, he was born with a “silver spoon” in his mouth. Whereas DeLay’s background couldn’t hold a candle to patrician Bush. Nope, DeLay was through and through a plebeian (Roman for “dirt poor” compared to aristocrats among Romans called patricians.).

Bush was an oilman—and, frankly, not a very good one (so everyone knows)—but he had a deep well of never-ending resources through family-related investment capital. On other hand, DeLay was a bug man. And, like Bush, not a very good one at that. Eventually, rules and regs. of EPA just about wiped out his business—and, that did it. “It’s off to Congress I go”—so you wonder why “counter-revolution” against EPA, et al, continues to this day?

Right about same time that DeLay was “finding Jesus” – President Bush was doing same—but under very different “evangelical environments.” First of all, Bush’s drinking habits were getting best of him—and Laura had had it.

The time was ripe! However, Bush’s “conversion experience” differed from DeLay’s. When Bush, prodigal son, returned home to Maine compound in 1985, there was Revered Billy Graham. They walked grounds of Walker Point—the Bush family estate on coast of Maine. Bush prayed with Graham and he “surrendered himself to Jesus.” Returning back home in Midland, Bush joined a Bible Study “accountability group” that Laura also attended—eventually, he quit drinking.

In sum, Dubose describes Bush and DeLay religious encounters as follows:

“DeLay had come up harder in all ways, all his life. He had absorbed enough Baptist teaching and upbringing to call himself a Christian, yet as he neared forty he knew he was a sinner. His road to Damascus was plebeian, and he choked in dust of patricians like George Bush.” (p. 53)

“When Tom DeLay fell to his knees before a video clip of James Dobson, he was not only born again in Christ, he was born again in Republican electoral politics. This is not to suggest that his motives were anything less than spiritual, but result was political. Not only did his return to church provide him focus and discipline he lacked when he had been ‘Hot Tub Tom’ of ‘Macho Manor’ in Austin (you’ll have to read book to understand), DeLay immediately became part of a religious community that is also a political community. As a high-profile evangelical Christian, Tom DeLay connected to Christian base without which Republican Party cannot win national elections—and many state elections. Like George W. Bush, DeLay found Jesus at precise moment in American political history when Jesus became a political asset. THE TIMING WAS SO PERFECT THAT THE NONBELIEVR IS LEFT TO WONDER IF IT JUST MIGHT HAVE BEEN GOD’S PLAN. (pp. 58-59 – The Hammer) (Note: My emphasis upon “secularist’s remarks.)

There you have it—somehow, evangelicalism and politics—along with this guy, Tim LaHaye—found fertile ground in Baptist soils of Texas. Two men from two completely different walks of life—at about same time—got “old time religion” and it has shaped how they look at America and world—BIG TIME! Likewise, it has shaped how “Liberal America” thinks about them and about most “old time religion” in America—just in case you can’t see where I’m going with this! (Veiled allusion here to Howard Dean's Republican Party of "White Christians" remark(June, 2005).)

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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY – IT AIN’T THE PARTY OF MY MOTHER!

This writer was raised in a home where Mom and Dad were stalwart Democrats. They’d vote for a jackass if democrats ran one for President—and I think that may have happened! I remember when Mom came home from Almond Growers here in Sacramento and told me she was fired for trying to help organize a union—which to this day does not exist at Almond Growers/Blue Diamond operations!

Union—that’s right—Teamsters Union and proud of it. But deeply religious and steeped in social values that mirror those of conservative right today! But dems “went out there” and embraced a “social agenda” that got real “peculiar” as far as Mom and scores of other dems like her and dad. So what happened—go to Wichita, Kansas and find out for yourself. What’s happening in Wichita for blue collar workers is happening all over nation and only ones that can’t figure it out are dems who control that party.

But that doesn’t make much difference. Why? Clinton and his NAFTA/DLC elites are nothing more than “Republican economic light”—for “big picture” of global economic dominance is so steeped, so engrained in psyche of both parties, that only battle of differences are social in nature, with some civil rights bearing limited attraction (i.e., Democrats mouth support for civil rights of minorities, gays, etc.). So why on earth would a socially conservative democrat vote for Kerry/Edwards when their economic policies virtually mirror those of Republican Bush/Cheney regime? And, talk is cheap! So, “anti-war” crowd are really, in so far as “movers and shakers” at top of Democratic Party are concerned, nothing more than “talk” – they too must protect Mrs. Kerry’s millions somehow—and it ain’t going to be through economic isolationism and Libertarian policies of Pat Buchanan.

So—what you’ve got here are little meaningless nuances on how to fight global war on terrorism and still maintain economic hegemony over world’s economies!

THE COUNTRY CLUB REPUBLICANS—OUT OF MIND, BUT NOT OUT OF SIGHT!

Compounding their ostentatious take over of leadership of Republican Party from its country club headship and wishy-washy moderate Republican elites (a.k.a., “mainstream Republicans”), have been socio-religious conservatives—many of whom are white refugees from disenfranchised Solid South and union (as in “labor union”) North. Their leadership, however, has promoted an aggressive commercial promulgation of Gospel of Prosperity and, ipso facto, their marriage to corporate America—who has found in them moral covering to subjugate world’s economy under one umbrella, their own.

Think about it—not only have social conservatives of Democratic Party been disenfranchised (as a result of shift in emphasis within Democratic Party in early 1980s from plain and simple economic issues to embrace of radical social agendas of various splinter groups and “party greens”)—but social conservatives of Republican Party, and their newly-arrived democratic counterparts, now get to sit down and shut up and listen to likes of McCain, Guliani, and Schwarzenegger at Convention!

Yes, it must be “luv” - Corporate America’s embrace of “Theocratic Right’s” commercialism was witnessed at NASCAR’s biggest event (February 15, 2004) in Daytona Beach, FL. Mel Gibson’s “The Passion” was seen atop hood of a participant. AOL (America On-line) asked its audience if Christianity should participate in such blatant commercial advertising—in response, 85% saw nothing amiss with such merchandising (and AOL termed it “merchandising”)—thus, was birthed another benign “hybrid from hell” as Country Clubber and Prosperity Gospel-lite continue their turbulent romance of convenience and connivance.

SO—PEACE, PEACE AND MORE PEACE UNTIL WE HAVE A PIECE OF EVERYTHING!

The “man on white horse” who promised “compassionate conservatism” at its inception—has changed horses from white to apocalyptic red, whereon “man of peace” has become “man of war.” And, not just pure war—but “wars of liberation” -- wars that will democratize planet, making it safe and free!

For those of us who cherish liberties we hold as unalienable and given by our Creator and resist religious tyranny, “wars without,” and unbridled greed—we now behold resemblance of a prophetical eruption of an Image whose imperial might and colonial/commercial expansionism bears little or no recognition to America we once knew—and NEITHER political party wants to stop it! In name of freedom and liberty, of democracy and banishment of terrorism and tyranny, we march on and on. Where have we heard and witnessed such affirmations once promised, but whose commercial and missionizing intentions were abysmal failures?

Dear friend, Christianity cannot be propagated by sword nor by “shock and awe”—the promise of infidels and savages coming under light and blessings of gospel, while simultaneously reaping huge economic profits, only exposes rotten underbelly of rank colonialism—a recurring pathology whose flesh-eating diseased symptoms are altogether recognized throughout world.

A “crusade against evil” in mind of inner cabinet of this administration—ubiquitously launched against mysterious forces of global terrorism and their serpentine networks and operatives—bespeaks of communism’s stupidity, when Brezhnev proclaimed that USSR’s “sacred internationalist duty” to thwart, through overt military acts, all attempts to subvert socialism’s experiment throughout globe were wholly justified. The “city set on a hill” -- that beacon of light to shine into darkness—has now become an intrusive flashlight, probing and inspecting. Once her hands reached out to poor and tormented of earth—now she grabs their hands and fingerprints them upon entry at customs.

Joseph Goebbels’ famous dictum that to tell a believable lie one must tell a whopper or a cacophony of them continues to hold true today. Let me humbly state: The more we hear of why we entertained this “War of Liberation” commenced upon Mesopotamian Plain, more nonsensical and blatantly false were its assumptions. In Twentieth Century Nazis may have developed “the lie,” and Soviets may have refined “the lie,” but total believability of “the lie” has reached unsurpassed ignobility by a Twenty-First Century public so gullible, and under ether of a press so compliant, that masses who have succumbed to this absurd barrage of disinformation are perhaps most ill-informed generation ever to countenance America’s landscape.

br> (Note: This article was originally included in an e-line book entitled: UNSEALING THE END OF DAYS @ http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/dougkrieger/unsealing/unsealing_book.htm Note: The actual article itself is completed with links @ http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/dougkrieger/times_and_seasons/democratic_globalism.htm