Posted on 09/12/2006 9:39:00 PM PDT by jmc1969
Duck...liberals throwing multiple items in all directions about now. LOL!
Let's hope he's right.
I pray that is true. The forces of darkness are attacking us everywhere in this country and around the world.
Very kewl...that he would be willing to articulate this.
I sense a CWII.
I think that is the real reason they hate Bush. He's too good, upright, monogamous, loyal, etc. Clinton was the favorite of sinners, not Bush.
The war on terror, and our ability to endure to the end and emerge victorious, is as much a spiritual struggle as it is a political and military struggle.
Bingo. It's that simple.
Bush certainly has that "vision thing" his father lacked.
The Second great Awakening was in the 1820-1860 time. This one gave us many religious movements and new schisms and denominations--the Mormons, Christian Scientists, Adventists, Shakers, rise of Methodists, Unitarians, Congregationalists, etc. At the end, slavery was ended, Christmas was made a national holiday and Christmas trees became popular.
The Third Awakening was in the 1920-1930's. It gave us prohibition and social doctrines, like social security. Ended with the onset of WWII.
The Fourth Awakening started in the 1990s with televangelism, growth of psychics and similar beliefs, the fall of communism, and a generalized distrust of government. The fall-out is not known, but previously the pendulum has swung. From a faith-orientation to a secular orientation and back. Excesses of religious fervor and anti-rationalism were curbed in the past, and rational, pragmatic considerations won the minds of the day.
Some say great awakenings were actually "Great Darkenings".
And they say it from a position of bigotry and ignorance.
Only those who consider light "darkness." The other force at work in our society is a radical secularism, which claims for itself enlightenment and tolerance, but which is appallingly ignorant of religious conviction and is intolerant of people of faith.
This is probably the big divide in our nation -- a chasm between people of faith and radical secularists. Something has to give, and if I understand the signs, faith has the momentum at the moment, because what the secularists have to offer isn't enlightenment and tolerance, but nihilism.
I find Bush's line of thought (if that's the right thing to call it) a bit scary. Rather than simply "good" vs "evil," I would rather contrast hard reasoning vs mindless religiousity. Or we may find ourselves confronting the Rude Awakening of armed conflict with those those whose goal is the worldwide imposition of the Nth Caliphate and the culture of the 7th Century.
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, though. Some of the evangelicals being touted right now by the LameStream Media may not be as biblical as advertised.
"Can you direct me to the DNC headquarters?"
There's also a similar book out there called something like "The Turning" by a couple of sociologists, written in the 90s. They say we're due for the 4th turning about now, which is a very tumultuous time but is also an awakening of sorts.
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