Apocalypse Now, part deux

In a post here I made a connection between Gingrich's WWIII analogy and the Christian fundamentalists' desire to see the apocalypse now, as foretold in the Bible. Well, I was just intuitively reacting to Gingrich's comments based on years'-ago over exposure to the rightwing nut religious sphere, but Sarah Posner publishes a piece here in which she makes a direct connection between Gingrich's and others' WWIII comments and a popular Texan evangelical named John Hagee, who is preaching that Iran must be attacked first for the Bible prophecies to come true. His book, Jerusalem Countdown, as Posner details, has apparently been selling like hotcakes amongst US fundies. I hadn't heard of it, nor would I recommend it, but different nut heads trying to make the case for Gog and Magog have been popular in evangelical circles for decades (or rather millennia). The difference now, however, is that they've got the ear of the President, as well as some in his inner circle and would-be Presidents like McCain and members of Congress. This is scary shit. These fundamentalists, at least 10-15% of the American population and growing, really want and would welcome WWIII and they're hoping Bush is their man to do it. If he doesn't consent to play the messianic role, then they'll keep trying to find another who will. Until or unless the Democratic party gets a spine and begins to attack and expose the ideologies of these Biblical literalists, these fundies will have a better chance of taking us and the rest of the world back 3,500 years (hell, I won't say 2,000 because they all seem want to follow the OT more than the NT), and if they can't do it via laws, then they'll bomb us back that far.