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Keepongoing
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 Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject: Is the recent conflict in the Mideast leading |
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| Is the recent conflict in the Mideast leading to Armaggaeddon? I am sure all the Fundamentalists are thinking this. I tjhink it is unsustainable and a no-win situation for anyone |
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Bulsajo
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: Is the recent conflict in the Mideast leading |
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| MASH4077 wrote: |
| Is the recent conflict in the Mideast leading to Armaggaeddon? |
Now there's an interfaith idea everyone can get behind; Lubavtichers, fundamentalists, and messianic Shiites. |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Is the recent conflict in the Mideast leading |
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| MASH4077 wrote: |
| Is the recent conflict in the Mideast leading to Armaggaeddon? I am sure all the Fundamentalists are thinking this. I tjhink it is unsustainable and a no-win situation for anyone |
You know, I was watching Good Morning America today and Diane Sawyer was actually interviewing the authors of the "Left Behind" books, asking them the same thing!!!! And she was serious!
I couldn't frickin' believe it. 
May as well ask the chick who wrote the Harry Potter books if rubbing a toad on your hand will get rid of warts.
I guess fundamentalist Christianity really has become mainstream in the U.S. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I guess fundamentalist Christianity really has become mainstream in the U.S.
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It's possible to read too much into these things. I remember Hal Lindsey, the guy who wrote Late Great Planet Earth, being interviewed on Canada AM in the late 1970s or so. This show is as mainstream as Good Morning America is, and the interviewer was pretty much letting Lindsey prattle on unchallenged about the anti-Christ's imminent rise to power. |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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I guess fundamentalist Christianity really has become mainstream in the U.S.
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It's possible to read too much into these things. I remember Hal Lindsey, the guy who wrote Late Great Planet Earth, being interviewed on Canada AM in the late 1970s or so. This show is as mainstream as Good Morning America is, and the interviewer was pretty much letting Lindsey prattle on unchallenged about the anti-Christ's imminent rise to power. |
I hadn't known that. I have to say, I was taken aback. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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On the other hand wrote:
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I guess fundamentalist Christianity really has become mainstream in the U.S.
It's possible to read too much into these things. I remember Hal Lindsey, the guy who wrote Late Great Planet Earth, being interviewed on Canada AM in the late 1970s or so. This show is as mainstream as Good Morning America is, and the interviewer was pretty much letting Lindsey prattle on unchallenged about the anti-Christ's imminent rise to power.
I hadn't known that. I have to say, I was taken aback.
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I guess it depends on the general tone of the interview. Like, if they say "here's the author of the Left Behind books to give us the straight run-down on what's happening in the middle east", well yeah, that would be pretty bizarre.
As I recall, the Lindsey interview on Canada AM was just sort of "Here's this guy, he's got this religious theory of current events, let's here what he has to say".
But I agree, it is pretty dubious to give those guys a soap box on a current events TV show, no matter what the agenda. |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Sometimes I think the only way the religious factions who have been busy blowing each other up (for whatever reason) in the M.E. are going to be forced to stop is if something really, really terrible happens to a lot of people all at once which completely horrifies the entire world. Cataclysmic event--take your pick.
Some factions have been talking "annihilation" for a long time....be careful what you wish for... everyone might get it. |
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Tiger Beer
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Yeah I remember Hal Lindsey.. quite a few armeggeddon guys around for quite a while - my parents bought quite a few of those books and never read any of them. Or they were passed back and forth between family members and friends.
I remember myself being convinced from those the world would end in 1988.. then when didn't happen.. it was going to be 1989.. then 1990.. that kept occurring up to 2000 which it was inevitable.
Anyways.. |
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Junior
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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I remember myself being convinced from those the world would end in 1988.. then when didn't happen.. it was going to be 1989.. then 1990.. that kept occurring up to 2000 which it was inevitable.
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Dates aren't important, the right conditions in place, are.
things are moving in the right direction. The environment is collapsing, we have accelerating global warming and soaring temperatures left right and centre. We have the enemies of the west acquiring nukes. We have a conglomeration of foreign forces getting ready to police israel by first moving into southern lebanon. |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Junior wrote: |
| Tiger Beer wrote: |
I remember myself being convinced from those the world would end in 1988.. then when didn't happen.. it was going to be 1989.. then 1990.. that kept occurring up to 2000 which it was inevitable.
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Dates aren't important, the right conditions in place, are.
things are moving in the right direction. The environment is collapsing, we have accelerating global warming and soaring temperatures left right and centre. We have the enemies of the west acquiring nukes. We have a conglomeration of foreign forces getting ready to police israel by first moving into southern lebanon. |
Actually my depressing notion concerned the annihilation of large chunks of the M.E., not the entire planet--but then again who knows who could become allies in the event of a more serious escalation.
We've got the wrong president in power to deal with this kind of thing--too cowboy and not enough of a respected statesman. That's kinda scary. |
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