Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo belong to a doomsday cult -- and may be trying to bring on the apocalypse

[Amaryllis]

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/mike-pence-mike-pompeo-belong-doomsday-cult-may-trying-bring-apocalypse/

President Donald Trump’s vice president and secretary of state appear to have a conflict between their private religious beliefs and their public duties, according to a financial journalist.

Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo are each a “genuine, end-of-days, believer in the apocalypse,” and Financial Times journalist Edward Luce said their religious beliefs about the end times exerts a troubling influence on their duties.

“Generally I believe a public figure’s beliefs should be irrelevant to their job,” Luce wrote. “Whether they’re atheist, Opus Dei, Buddhist or Muslim, should have no bearing on our assessment of their fitness for office. Yet I can’t help but feel anxious that both of Donald Trump’s main global envoys, Pompeo and Pence, have a conflict between their private beliefs and what they publicly claim to be doing.”

Luce argued that both Trump administration officials were part of a “millenarian cult,” and he worried their “militant creed” would influence their public policies to spark a “final conflagration in which the righteous will vanquish the wicked.”

“Call me a serial fretter, but I don’t take comfort from the fact that Pence is a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief,” Luce wrote. “Nor do I see Pompeo as one of the grown-ups restraining Trump. He’s an enabler, not a preventer. Where Trump goes, Pompeo will follow. Let’s hope Trump never gets religion.”

[superpatriotman]

2. Dominionists

Delusional and dangerously suicidal

[Grasswire2]

3. Erik Princ too.

Betsy DeVos.

[bullwinkle428]

4. This is utterly terrifying stuff. Needs more visibility here at DU, at least.

[bobbieinok]

8. John Hagee's large pro Israel group--conversion or death of Jews pre-condition for Rapture

Hagee was some sort of advisor to McCain in 08 until M$M got a clue about this belief.

Establishment of Israel as a state, move Capitol to Jerusalem, rebuild the Temple-- all pre-conditions.

Jews must convert. Those who do not will die horribly. This belief is behind the many missionaries going to Israel 'to convert the Jews'.

[Hekate]

5. KnR

[dchill]

6. K&R. For visibility.

[Funtatlaguy]

7. This is not a joke or theonion. They are called End Timers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. yup. Jim Jones on a global scale

The suicide cult wants to take everyone with them.

[KCDebbie]

9. You mean the Doomsday Cult that is Christianity?

The part of the Christian doctrine that calls for the world as we know it to come to an end and all Jews must die (except for that special group of 144k) so that Jesus can return?

You mean that cult?

[phylny]

10. It never ceases to amaze me how many so-called "Christians" feel the need to

intervene on behalf of Almighty God. Like they think He needs THEIR help.

And I say this as an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

[scarytomcat]

16. I to find it hard to believe too

this not really apart of the bible as far as I know. It is a crazy notion that has swept some evangelical christian groups
and to think they can force a gods hand shows a deep lack of understanding of the bible

[UTUSN]

11. K&R

[ananda]

12. And succeeding

Environmental policies are bringing on
serious extinction events, and historically
warming and climate chaos are catastrophic
for large life forms..

[diva77]

13. Dense & Pompous - vicious swindlers -- swindling on the grand scale, using doomsday

cult tactics.

Better to focus on what the majority wants to achieve rather than letting these death fetishists control the message.

[PufPuf23]

15. Individuals with the "End Times" belief system have zero qualifactions

for public service much less anything to do with National Security or National Defense.

I am all for religious freedom and religious freedom is a cornerstone of the Nation but those rights are truncated when they put others and the Nation at risk or result in actual damage. One would think there ought be a limitation to these rights in the public sphere based upon at human history and the wars and genocides and persecutions that result from or are justified by religious beliefs.

I do not believe that religions should receive tax benefits and should be taxed as any other citizens and institutions. The religious and religious institutions do mix politics which is supposedly not allowed to the degree one can make an easy argument that a main function is to undermine the Nation and shift money and power to specific religions.

The mass of religious people tend to be a brainwashed voting block of "believers" and cynics that use the situation for their own ends of fame, power, money, and ego.