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\u201cDeLay is motivated more than anything by power,\u201d says Jan Reid, coauthor with Lou Dubose of The Hammer<\/em>, a just-published biography of DeLay. \u201cBut he also believes in the power of the coming Millennium [of Jesus Christ], and it helps shape his vision on government and the world.\u201d This may explain why DeLay\u2019s Capitol office furnishings include a marble replica of the Ten Commandments and a wall poster that reads: \u201cThis Could Be The Day\u201d \u2014 meaning Judgment Day. <\/p>\nDeLay is also a self-declared member of the Christian Zionists, an End-Time faction numbering 20 million Americans. Christian Zionists believe that the 1948 creation of the state of Israel marked the first event in what author Hal Lindsey calls the \u201ccountdown to Armageddon\u201d and they are committed to making that doomsday clock tick faster, speeding Christ\u2019s return. <\/p>\n
In 2002, DeLay visited pastor John Hagee\u2019s Cornerstone Church. Hagee preached a fiery message as simple as it was horrifying: \u201cThe war between America and Iraq is the gateway to the Apocalypse!\u201d he said, urging his followers to support the war, perhaps in order to bring about the Second Coming. After Hagee finished, DeLay rose to second the motion. \u201cLadies and gentlemen,\u201d he said, \u201cwhat has been spoken here tonight is the truth from God.\u201d <\/p>\n
With those words \u2014 broadcast to 225 Christian TV and radio stations \u2014 DeLay placed himself squarely inside the End-Time camp, a faction willing to force the Apocalypse upon the rest of the world. In part, DeLay may embrace Hagee and others like him in a calculated attempt to win fundamentalist votes \u2014 but he was also raised a Southern Baptist, steeped in a literal interpretation of the Bible and End-Time dogma. Biographer Dubose says that the majority leader probably doesn\u2019t grasp the complexities of dispensationalist and reconstructionist theology, but \u201cI am convinced that he believes [in] it.\u201d For DeLay, Dubose told me, \u201cIf John Hagee says it, then it is true.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cDeLay is motivated more than anything by power,\u201d says Jan Reid, coauthor with Lou Dubose of The Hammer, a just-published biography of DeLay. \u201cBut he also believes in the power of the coming Millennium [of Jesus Christ], and it helps shape his vision on government and the world.\u201d This may explain why DeLay\u2019s Capitol office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n