10-20-2006, 03:49 AM
some info related to above
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/000887.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"There are no political elements in our preaching. We are simply relaying what God says in his word," Van der Merwe says, sitting in his home office on a smallholding outside Kroonstad. His church building is a converted workshop on the same property. ... "You would not believe how our people (white Afrikaners) are awakening to the truth. "We have been bursting at the seams in the past six months. Extra chairs have to be carried into the church on Sundays," he says. "No government, police or defence force can stop what is happening, because it is part of God's plan for his covenant people."
The "truth" he is referring to is the belief that the world's white Protestants, including the Afrikaners, are God's chosen people, born to rule. They are seen as the only true descendants of Biblical Israel's 12 lost tribes, and thus the only people with whom God has concluded his holy covenant. Only they will be saved by God at the end, Van der Merwe and his followers believe. They dismiss the evolution theory, believing God created all nations in a predetermined order, which is not to be changed. And face it, "we were created the head nation, not the one at the tail end," Van der Merwe says.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/000887.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"There are no political elements in our preaching. We are simply relaying what God says in his word," Van der Merwe says, sitting in his home office on a smallholding outside Kroonstad. His church building is a converted workshop on the same property. ... "You would not believe how our people (white Afrikaners) are awakening to the truth. "We have been bursting at the seams in the past six months. Extra chairs have to be carried into the church on Sundays," he says. "No government, police or defence force can stop what is happening, because it is part of God's plan for his covenant people."
The "truth" he is referring to is the belief that the world's white Protestants, including the Afrikaners, are God's chosen people, born to rule. They are seen as the only true descendants of Biblical Israel's 12 lost tribes, and thus the only people with whom God has concluded his holy covenant. Only they will be saved by God at the end, Van der Merwe and his followers believe. They dismiss the evolution theory, believing God created all nations in a predetermined order, which is not to be changed. And face it, "we were created the head nation, not the one at the tail end," Van der Merwe says.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->