If it makes you feel better I&#x27;m not sure Christian religious nuttiness is much better. Apparently:<p>&gt;in the prelude to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush told Jacques Chirac that Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East: &quot;This confrontation is willed by God,&quot; he told the French leader, &quot;who wants us to use this conflict to erase his people&#x27;s enemies before a New Age begins.&quot; [Wikipedia]<p>which kind of kicked of the present run of difficulties.