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Something that never will happen anyway.
Right-Wing Pundits: Obama Persecuting Bachmann With 'End Times' Joke
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 4/28/2015 10:50 am
At the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend, President Obama made a joke about ex-Rep. Michele Bachmanns repeated refrain that he is bringing about the Last Days, and the former Minnesota congresswoman is not pleased. She and other Religious Right pundits told the End Times outlet WorldNetDaily that the presidents joke was an act of anti-Christian persecution and suggested that people who disagree with Bachmanns remarks are really denouncing all of Christianity.
The blood moons of 2014 and 2015 are forewarnings of what is to come in 2016, author Mark Blitz told WND. President Obama, I believe, was only half joking when he made his comments.
Another Religious Right commentator, Carl Gallups, said, Regardless of how uncomfortable Bachmanns comments might have made some feel, the biblical fact is that when a nation turns its back on Israel and at the same time celebrates, promotes, and legalizes homosexual marriage it is inviting end of days judgment upon itself.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-pundits-obama-persecuting-bachmann-end-times-joke
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)IMO, Scientist can tell us exactly what day the flood waters will look red from a lunar eclipse near Jericho; when the fig plants are putting on leaves (Spring). Perhaps a battle, or earthquakes, or near Earth objects striking the area, could cause salt pillars to rise and the rift to open. The remnant that is north of the area is supposed to run for the highlands as Armageddon proceeds.
It seems to me that according to Bachmann, we are supposed to die year after year to protect the Remnant in Israel. Who are the decendents? Where are they now? Ask Michelle Bachmann.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)But she's this year's Katherine Harris.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)She calls attention to herself with her bizarre words and deeds.
This sort of behavior can't be blamed on someone else.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)whatthehey
(3,660 posts)to question her sincerely held beliefs or mock the overwhelming good and advancements that spring from religion?
Why is her opinion more risible than the idea that prayer is a valid response to natural disasters?
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)and laugh
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)People say conservatives are never funny, because they lack a sense of humor. All this outrage over a joke that didn't have a single explicit insult makes for a pretty convincing case.
No sense of humor at all.
They can fling vile insults, not intending humor. Then a joke elicits this response? Ridiculous, ain't it?
Vinca
(50,269 posts)If they want to meet their maker so badly, why don't they off themselves?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Racist bigots said the same thing about "race mixing"
These same holier than thou religious fanatics break old testament law a hundred times a day, everyday!
But hey, its all good, we will look the other way for our friends and families, but...
TEH GAYS TEH GAYS are evvvvvvillllllllll!!!!!!!
Oh and The blood moons of 2014 and 2015 have already been debunked.
John Hagee Winds Up Debunking His Own 'Blood Moons' Theory
BY Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 4/6/2015 2:12 pm
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/john-hagee-winds-debunking-his-own-blood-moons-theory
ananda
(28,858 posts)... and media play ... as though they are credible or sane
on anything.
In Texas here, it's getting really bad. Our tea party faction
is so power crazy and just plain crazy it's unreal... and
they're passing legislation just as extreme.
We are so screwed!
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)And, her strait jacket always needs adjusting.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)A book of stories written as much as propaganda as history, assembled hundreds of years after the deaths of any eyewitnesses, subject to countless dozens of translations and transliterations, is about as useful a guide to "facts" as a medieval map of the world inscribed with "here there be monsters."
The King James version of the new testament was completed in 1611 by eight members of the Church of England
There were and still are, no original texts to translate. The oldest manuscripts we have were written hundreds of years after the last apostle died. There are over 8,000 of these manuscripts and no two are alike.
The King James used none of these manuscripts in any case. Instead, they edited versions of previous translations to create a version their King and Parliament would approve.
So 21st century christians believe the "word of god" is a book edited in the 17th century from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th century scrolls that claim to be copies of lost letters written in the 1st century.
That is not faith. That is insanity.