June 2011
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Marriage equality in NY means the End Times are...
According to New York State Senator Ruben Diaz (a Democrat), the recent passage of a marriage equality law in the state will usher in the End Times.Also people laughing at and making fun of him.
“I believe in the Bible. I believe in the End of Times and that all these things will come to be, that what is good will become bad and what bad will become good,” he said. “Whenever...
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Jack Van Impe leaves his broadcast home
Famed televangelist and hard-core End Times preacher Jack Van Impe has left the Trinity Broadcasting Network, his home for years.
It comes as a result of the fiery Armageddon prophet’s categorization of two popular evangelical preachers, Rick Warren (of the huge Saddleback Church) and Robert H. Schuller (of the Crystal Cathedral) as believers in “Chrislam.”
That’s Van...
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Second Coming: Imminent for two millennia
One of the basics of understanding Armageddonists is to grasp the concept of imminence. That’s a description that is both immediate and impending; it could be any moment now, but for most believers, it will happen within their lifetimes.
And it’s a much less benign way of “living in the moment” than what is meant by Buddhism (or even the current “Buddhist-lite”...
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Camping's stroke causes radio show cancellation
According to news reports, the stroke suffered by Rev. Harold Camping, the End Times radio preacher who predicted the Rapture would occur on May 21 and is still insisting that Judgment Day will happen on October 21, has led to the cancellation of his daily radio program.
The San Jose Mercury-News reports that, once Camping’s pre-recorded shows have been broadcast, his daily show will be...
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Is surviving the apocalypse ...
…worth it if you have to eat this stuff? Gizmodo (tech blog) asks if all the freeze-dried, End of the World rations would be worth staying alive to eat.
Gizmodo Taste Test: Is Surviving the Apocalypse Worth Eating This Food?
Anonymous asked: A Sac FAN: What's with the Mormon 1-2 year food/emergency storage obsession? I assume it's about apocalypse and 'ruling the world' 'on behalf of god' (of course). I'm aware that now there's an enormous tax-exempt warehousing enterprise to supplement the suburban hoarding...
Also, I heard some wacky 'urban legend' that each Mormon family will...
Also, I heard some wacky 'urban legend' that each Mormon family will...
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Want to understand the evangelical world-view?
Read Sarah Posner (author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade for Values Voter and regular commenter at Religious Dispatches).
In her piece today, “The Real Reason Why Evangelical Embrace of Environmentalism Lags,” she addresses the missing evangelicals in attempts to do something about our ever-more-endangered planet.
Indeed the most important, and...
“Many Christians today may think that the canon of the New Testament simply...”
– Bart Ehrman, in Misquoting Jesus (via posnonrel)
(It’s also worth noting that the book of Revelation, the source of most Armageddonist beliefs, was rejected by the Eastern church; relegated to second-class status by St. Jerome; had its status as canonical argued against by Gregory the...
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Armageddon survival bunkers: Price now reduced!
Robert Vicino, proprietor of a company that sells shares in an underground survival bunker guaranteed for all sorts of apocalyptic scenarios (asteroid strikes, super volcanoes, nuclear holocaust, plague) has reduced his buy-in costs—from $25,000 to $10,000.
This story from the Herald Sun has the details, should you be in the market for a bunker to ride out the End of Days.
And check out...
Anonymous asked: From SacFAN (Jim T): I was climbing Mt. Whitney in late May 1969 when the COG (Children of God---aka Teens for Christ) predicted 'sinful' LA would 'fall into the ocean'. Apocalyptic? I only became aware of LateGreatPlanetEarth in 1970 (Frosh at UCIrvine) Thanks for your comment that many of the 'believers' are in a very painful personal space. I've been there...
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WatchAt last night’s presentation for SacFan, someone asked about Armageddonists or apocalypse-believers in office. After answering the question, I joked that perhaps if Glenn Beck were to run for office, we’d have more to worry about.
Be careful with those jokes, folks!
via Media Matters
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Armageddon bibliography...
In anticipation of my discussion this evening at SacFAN (Sacramento Freethinkers, Atheists and Non-believers), I’m posting the current version of the bibliography I’m using in this project.
I’m a firm believer that argument only gets better when it’s sourced! (Oh, and I’d love some suggestions, too.)
The United States of Armageddon Bibliography
Abzug, Robert H....
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Uh, maybe the end has already happened...
Here’s some fun from Creative Loafing:
10 Signs the End of the World Has Happened Already
1. Superbugs are spreading throughout California.
2. I saw three people last week wearing “Who is John Galt?” T-shirts.
3. Dead birds have been falling out of the sky.
4. Steven Tyler is on American Idol.
5. Earthquakes, tsunamis and possible nuclear meltdown in Japan.
6. Tornadoes,...
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Michael Shermer on why apocalypse is so appealing
I missed this piece when it was published in the Wall Street Journal shortly before the Rev. Harold Camping’s predicted “Rapture Day,” but a big thanks to my friend Paul Storey, who brought it to my attention this weekend.
Michael Shermer suggests that our evolution has predisposed us to over-react to possible threats—including the End of Days—because reacting as if...
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Sign of the apocalypse? President Obama's Israel...
According to Joseph Farah, head honcho at World Nut … oops! … World Net Daily, it’s too bad about Rev. Harold Camping’s predictions, but there really are signs of the apocalypse to be seen—-in President Obama’s foreign policy on the nation of Israel.
Bible prophecy may have a bad name in the light of Harold Camping’s misguided date-setting, but the...
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Armageddon + politics = bad foreign policy
Here’s an equation that really is a no-brainer: Don’t mix an End Times theology with politics and then export it to a Middle Eastern powderkeg.
Nonetheless, that’s precisely what television huckster Glenn Beck, fundagelical pastor John Hagee, and … U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman are doing.
Hagee is a notorious “End Times prophecy” preacher, and his group,...
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Palin supporters, Rapture believers
A Public Policy Polling survey done among GOP voters earlier this month had some interesting results.
The most interesting? Former Alaska governor (and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee) Sarah Palin shared the lead with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in this particular poll—even though Palin has not yet declared her candidacy.
But even more interesting was that 74% of...
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“Here’s what we should be sure to notice: The would-be prophet of the end times...”
– Louis A. Ruprecht, “The Heresy of End Times Predictions” (via Religious Dispatches)
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Is it fraud?
The question of whether or not making false predictions about the date of the End is engaging in fraud is pretty complicated, but when there’s profit to be made, it’s a worthy question to ask.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking California Attorney General Kamala Harris to investigate Harold Camping’s group for fraud.
They’re not saying that predicting the...
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