...being to get the neo-conservative agenda fully implemented no matter what is promised or said or implied or believed by the opposition. Remember that the relgious fanatics believe they are the choosen ones to do God's work, and those who are not choosen are fallen sheep and therefore must be shepherded along until the second coming at which time judgment will be passed and those who are saved and choosen (there will only be 146,000 in total) will join in the heavenly rapture the remainder will ALL be damned to hell-fire and brimstone for all eternity -- Amen!
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Letters From The Earth
by Mark Twain (1909)
The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone.
When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!"
He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe.
At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed.
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/twain/letearth.htmI personally do not buy any of this, but apparently there are many in positions of power who do including the relgious right: "They worshiped the beast... there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies... and he causes all, both great and small, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark" (Rev.13:4-5, 16-17)... and the Bible tells us that he who receives the "mark" will go to Hell (Rev.14:9-11).