au1929 wrote: When this does not happen and surely it won't what will the evangelicals than do? Return to the practices of old. 1500 years of history have told us what that is.
Au, you're conflating the Evangelicals (whose "Left-Behind" scenario, BTW, is
NOT biblical) with the Catholic church. Whatever other fault somebody might find with them, Evangelicals, historically, have never been bloodshedders.
It bothers me tremendously that people consistently equate Christianity with the Catholic church. They are most definitely
NOT synonymous. As I said in my post to Bella Dea over at the "Heaven and Hell" thread, Jesus made it very clear that His followers were NOT to use violence to proselytize. We must judge Christianity by its Author (Jesus Christ) and its primary document (the N.T.), not by a deformation of it in history (Catholicism). If people want to see a a true example of biblical Christianity in action, let them look no further than the Amish or the Mennonites. Those people are much closer to the "City of God" than Catholicism has EVER been.
Other minor point: those "practices" you're referring to could only happen if there were a theocracy, which there isn't, nor is there any chance that there WILL be.