I guess I did get carried away a bit and overlooked quite a few of your points please allow me to address a few of them.
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So when someone who believes the Bible is absolute truth and the best thing for the world would be Christ's return and in order for that to happen the temple in Jerusalem must be destroyed and this person has access to the weapons that could make this destruction possible and said person is elected to be the US president... then i have a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM with religion. I'd have the same problem if we'd elect someone who "believes" a specific race inferior or superior or someone who "believes" the moon is made of cheese. The point I am making is - public policy should be based on reality - not in what someone "believes".
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I think we would all have a problem with that scenario, religious or not religious. However we are told ironically that the anti-Christ will play the part in the end times and will lead on to the coming of the Messiah as opposed to a fundamentalist bringing on the end times so I guess we will just have to wait and see. Either way I believe that politics in developed and civilized countries tend to lean towards separating religion from war.
Regarding mixing religion with politics, I agree with you - it is definitely not logical for any one man to decide the fate of a country that consists of a huge diversity of different religions and beliefs based on his own religious orientation.
However the chance of a political decision for a diverse and developed country like America, China or Russia to go to nuclear war purely due to religion is surely highly unlikely? Considering that there will be protests, general outrage and the country would go crazy if a decision such as that were to be made possible. Yes, I think a mushroom cloud in Jerusalem would be quite religiously significant, but that doesn't seem to be probable at the moment or in the near future.
War or no war, I think that there is still a long time to come before the end times.. Isaac Newton made a calculated prediction that the world would not end before 2060 and thats probably the best bet I could give at the moment. Even if the world doesn't end up destroying itself, just like everything else in life - humanity will have a peak and a decline, we will all become extinct eventually. We will all die - that is inevitable.
I call myself a Christian based on the set of deitys and prophets that Christianity contains, which I choose to believe as logically significant and credible. Although I must disagree that I find no connection between my actions and that of a false prophet. Obedience is a result of conformism due to fear for the possibility of punishment, Blind Faith is free choice without the incidence of fear of punishment or consequence.
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I would also add that the modern day Christianity is not that different from post-Roman times.
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Well I would hope so, surely human nature hasn't changed?