The “God’s judging America by raising up al Qaeda” line never seems to go away, no matter what happens. It started with strange bedfellows like Bill Clinton and Jerry Falwell (and, for certain Reformed Christians, homeschoolers, etc., a very weird, immediately stupid-looking special issue of Doug Wilson’s Credenda Agenda, pronouncing the immediate end of the world as we know it, just a couple weeks after 9/11 and a couple weeks before American smashed the Taliban, accomplishing in days what the Soviet and British armies failed at miserably over many years).

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