End Times
POSTED BY: Misstressahara
UPDATED: Monday, August 7, 2006 19:25
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14083809/site/newsweek/?GT1=8307
So do you believe it?
As a Catholic I'm disgusted with this man and others using todays crises as a means to comtrol everyone out of their money. The only END I can see is this guy walking off with millions, and if Christ were coming I'd think he'd have a better representative than this.
Hope his End Times aren't nicely tied into a bow. Asshole.
If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting
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Not a forsaken, just an pissed off Catholic. If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting
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He may not represent Christ, but he represents tons of fundamentalist Christians. I don't begrudge him his kooky ideas. What concerns me is his popularity, that there are so many people who don't think he's kooky.
The fundy movement is growing by leaps and bounds. Not just in evangelical Christianity, but also in Catholicism and Islam. What does that say about us as a world? Some folks say it is an emotional attempt to return to immutable personal values in face of overwhelming globalization. I dunno.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky 
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Religion is the opiate of the masses....
"endeavor to persevere..." Chief Dan George as Lone Waite, Indian chief
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Originally posted by Dayve:
Religion is the opiate of the masses....
That quote's always taken out of context. Opium is a pain-killer. Sometimes you need that just to survive...
As for the end times, it always amazes me how people who profess to be Christian don't bother to read their own book...
"Behold, I come as a thief in the night."
If Christ himself refuses to set a timetable for Armageddon, why do mortals insist on demanding one? It's not like it makes a difference; if you actually believe in the resurrection of the flesh before judgement day, then you're going to be there, even if you die a thousand, or a million, years before the event.
Even more amusing, those people who look forward to Ragnarok are always convinced that they'll recognize the returned Jesus when they see him--subconsciously they're convinced that he'll look just like that 3-D portrait that used to hang in Aunt Jenny's kitchen. The day-glo halo will be a complete givaway.
Folks, he wasn't that obvious the first time around!
Always thought it more likely that the kind that want to be on God's side at the Megeddo battlefield will side with the Anti-Christ; after all, he's going to be wearing a pleasing shape, and promising to unite the whole world under one true religion. Sounds like a great deal of Fundamentalist appeal to me...
"I can't wait/Till I hear that sound/I can't wait/for that final battleground/I can't wait/to call out his name/as the world goes up in flames/Whoosh!" -- Celtic Elvis, Robots for Jesus
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What a load of crap! The factions that have friction now have ALWAYS had friction. I can't count the number of times in my lifetime I have heard the WW3 was starting in the middle east.
Dude wants to make money.
one of the Forsaken TM
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What's wrong with a christian trying to cash in on the coming Rapture and Tribulation? Christians are Capitalists too! All is equal in the eyes of the great green back.
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"After the rapture, can I have your car?"
I can't take credit (notice I said credit, not blame !) for that. I heard it on the radio.
edited to add: I'd like to get that as a bumper-sticker for my car, which, though it gets great gas mileage, looks like a POS.
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Originally posted by RocketJock:Quote:
Originally posted by Dayve:
Religion is the opiate of the masses....
That quote's always taken out of context. Opium is a pain-killer. Sometimes you need that just to survive...
OK… so below is the quote from Marx. I agree it has been taken out of context to the extent that Marx was not condemning religion so much as the effect it has on the population in general.
According to Webster’s, an opiate is “something that numbs the senses or the mind”….
I’m just saying that in my experience, I have found this to be true more often than not.
“Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.”
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
For Marx, the problem is in the fact that an opiate drug fails to fix a physical injury; it only helps you forget pain and suffering. This may be fine up to a point, but only as long as you are also trying to solve the underlying problems causing the pain. Also, religion does not fix the underlying causes of people’s pain and suffering — instead, it helps them forget why they are suffering and gets them to look forward to an imaginary future when the pain will cease.
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