Bachmann Predicted The World Would End In 2006: ‘We Are In The Last Days’

[demmiblue]

Source: Think Progress


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Slate’s Dave Weigel has reported an audio recording of Bachmann praying for the notoriously anti-gay ministry You Can Run But You Can’t Hide, run by the radical preacher Bradlee Dean. Bachmann offered the prayer in 2006 (though the recording was uploaded in 2008). In it, Bachmann predicts, “We are in the last days,” and says, “The harvest is at hand” — a Biblical allusion to the Rapture when some believe God will take saved Christians from the earth and leave the non-believers to face several years of torment and tribulation before the second coming of Christ:

BACHMANN: Lord, the day is at hand. We are in the last days. You are a Jehovah God. We know that the times are in your hands. And we give them to you…The day is at hand, Lord, when your return will come nigh. Nothing is more important than bringing sheep into the fold. Than bringing new life into the kingdom…You have weeded that garden. The harvest is at hand.

As Weigel noted, it’s not terribly surprising that Bachmann is among those evangelical Christians who believe the end of the world is imminent. But it’s still disconcerting that someone campaigning to lead America into the future believes that its days are numbered and millions of its citizens are doomed. Bachmann has toned down her religious rhetoric considerably since hitting the campaign trail.

Also jarring is Bachmann’s belief that “nothing is more important than” converting people before the world ends. As she weighs in on critical debates like whether or not to let the U.S. default on its obligations, it’s troubling that Bachmann is rooting for the apocalypse.


Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/18/264811/bachmann-predicted-world-end-2006

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What's a "Jehovah God"?

Is there some other kind? Christians are supposed to be monotheists, but this suggests that there's some other sort of god floating around out there.

Really?

Heretic! Pagan! Heathen!

[Solomon]

2. That one jumped out at me too. A Jehovah God.

It could only mean one thing - that mean jealous murderous God of the Old Testament. Definitely different from a Jesus God.

[dmallind]

11. Nah - it's a dog whistle to theology students

She's saying she's a fan of the J tradition of Old Testment writings. Damn those silly Elohists, ritualist Priestlians and boring Deuteronomists!

If it's needed..

:sarcasm:

Hey theology humor is possible ;)

[MilesColtrane]

13. That's similar to Corky St. Clair's "bastard person".

And, shouldn't it be Yahweh?

I've heard He doesn't like it when you mispronounce His name.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. You aren't even supposed to *say* "Jehovah."

..At least, according to Monty Python.


OFFICIAL: You have been found guilty by the elders of the town of uttering the name of our Lord, and so, as a blasphemer...

CROWD: Ooooh!

OFFICIAL: ...you are to be stoned to death.

CROWD: Ahh!

MATTHIAS: Look. I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'

CROWD: Oooooh!

OFFICIAL: Blasphemy! He's said it again!

CROWD: Yes! Yes, he did! He did!

OFFICIAL: Did you hear him?!

CROWD: Yes! Yes, we did! We did!

WOMAN #1: Really!



OFFICIAL: Are there any women here today?

CROWD: No. No. No. No...

OFFICIAL: Very well. By virtue of the authority vested in me--



MATTHIAS: Oww! Lay off! We haven't started yet!

OFFICIAL: Come on! Who threw that? Who threw that stone? Come on.

CROWD: She did! She did! He did! He! He. He. Him. Him. Him. Him. He did.

CULPRIT WOMAN: Sorry. I thought we'd started.

OFFICIAL: Go to the back.

CULPRIT WOMAN: Oh, dear.

OFFICIAL: Always one, isn't there? Now, where were we?

MATTHIAS: Look. I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying 'Jehovah'.

CROWD: Oooh! He said it again! Oooh!

OFFICIAL: You're only making it worse for yourself!

MATTHIAS: Making it worse?! How could it be worse?! Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!

CROWD: Oooooh!

OFFICIAL: I'm warning you. If you say 'Jehovah' once more...

Right. Who threw that?

MATTHIAS:



OFFICIAL: Come on. Who threw that?

CROWD: She did! It was her! He! He. Him. Him. Him. Him. Him. Him.

OFFICIAL: Was it you?

MRS. A.: Yes.

OFFICIAL: Right!

MRS. A.: Well, you did say 'Jehovah'.

CROWD: Ah! Ooooh!



OFFICIAL: Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'Jehovah'.

[checks-n-balances]

21. Jehovah is a mistranslation of Yahweh (YHWH) in the King James Version

Using the term "Jehovah God" is proof positive she comes from an uneducated religious upbringing and knows not what she's talking about.

[dawg]

14. Usually, people who say that are just trying to sound smart.

Like they've been studying scripture in-depth or something. If they really put forth the effort, they'll refer to him as Yahweh, or the great "I Am".

[WCGreen]

25. that's the same thing I thought....

Give me a Jovian god any day.

At least they have personality.

[Make7]

3. Well, Democrats did win control of both houses of Congress that year. ( n/t )

[demmiblue]

4. Ok... that made me laugh!

:rofl:

[damntexdem]

5. And now we're in overtime?

Sorry, Michelle, but with our limited time left, I have no time for you. ;-)

[Ikonoklast]

6. Bachmann has as much a chance at getting elected president as I have.

None, whatsoever.

[Ganja Ninja]

8. What's great about her is she's killing Mitt Romney.

She is the turd in the GOP's punch bowl, or at least one of them.

[TwilightGardener]

7. Yeah, that's someone who needs a nuclear arsenal at her disposal.

:crazy:

[MilesColtrane]

16. Maybe if she gets elected they'll have an aide carry around a real football...

instead of the actual nuclear codes.

She probably wouldn't notice anything weird about it.

[Booster]

9. Kinda makes you wish the Rapture were true so we'd be rid of

these batshit crazies.

[gratuitous]

10. Will any of our bulldogs of the Fourth Estate ask her about this?

It has been my experience that the eschatological-oriented folks are eager to share their beliefs about where the cosmos are in relation to the End of All Things. My guess, however, is that Ms. Bachmann is quite aware of how her pronouncements on the subject would be received by the general public, which is to say, they would perceive her as being batshit crazy.

Lucky for us and our political discourse nobody in the popular media will dare ask her about this. Ms. Bachmann would have to thread a very fine needle to avoid offending her fellow believers and avoid appearing to be looney tunes to the rest of us. Too bad.

[dawg]

12. Oh, they always talk and pray like that.

They prayed that way in church when I was just a kid. The New Testament church in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. thought they were in the last days.

Nothing new here.

[Ikonoklast]

24. Damn, Dawgs, you old.

[StarburstClock]

15. And she'll still get at least 49% of the U.S. vote if she runs

1/2 of the U.S. is dumb and corrupt and another 1/4 is politically blinded by propaganda.

[21st Century FDR]

17. Batshit Bachmann may have a point here.

Because if she managed to win (or Diebold stole on her behalf) election in 2012, I would be praying for the Mayan 12/21/2012 Apocalypse on an hourly basis.

[JuniperLea]

19. Carry Nation agrees...

[jwirr]

20. She picked up all this bs at that Oral Robertson school she got her

degree from. We are in big trouble if she ever gets in. Both her and mittens have their own religious framework and both are scary.

[July16th-20th]

22. If she geys elected.....

:nuke: :rofl:

[Urban Prairie]

23. Well..Batshit Bachmann WAS re-elected in '08, and for some voters in her district,

that might have been the "Last Straw"



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