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“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
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“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
Archived copies of the article
There are unconfirmed reports that soldiers were being told the war with Iran was being justified with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Apparently there are evangelical sects that believe the only way Jesus will appear is by forcing Iran and Russia to attack Israel.
Evangelicals took Christianity and circles back around to pagan idea. They literally think they can summon their god.
It’s also evident when they talk about how weather events are linked to sinful behavior. Their idea of god is something that can be controlled through gay sex.
They are of course incapable of the logical thinking to understand how blasemous their own behavior is towards the Christian god.
The Bible I read definitely had something to say about nobody except god knowing when jesus was supposed to come back.
Certainly never said you could summon God with a blood sacrifice.
Then again, most Christians have never read the Bible. If they had, they would probably be like me and no longer believe.
I remember getting in an argument with a rather strident xtian and he questioned where I got my “information” from. I said: from your Bible [1], and pointed him in the direction of skeptic’s annotated bible.
His reply: “of course you’d use a resource like this”. Did it matter to him that it is annotating phrases from his supposedly revealed text? No, it did not. Having the word “skeptic” in there put him off of it and so, therefore, he just declared victory, I guess, LOL. A whole lot of xtians seem to think that “skeptic” is the same as “cynic” as a term.
[1] He was one of those annoying xtians - and probably everyone has run into them, because they seem to be everywhere - they often resort to one of the most presumptuous phrases in the English language and it’s: “read your Bible”.
It’s presumptuous as fuck to assume I own a Bible. It’s also presumptuous as fuck to assume that there is only one version of “the” bible - because there is not. And lastly, it’s especially presumptuous because it seems to take as evident that the person saying it has read a version of “the” Bible, when odds are quite high that if they read it at all, it was select passages in a study group or something like that.
In his case it was especially ridiculous since he refused to even read his Bible at the prompting of something with the term “skeptic” in it, LOL.
Honestly I wouldn’t even bother saying it’s an annotated Bible, as long as it’s pulling from a translation of the Bible that a church would use, it’s the same Bible.
I love when someone tries calling me out on not using “the right” translation, because depending on how the conversation has gone up to then, I will either pull out a king James edition, or start listing any of the dozens upon dozens of English translations available, asking if this one or that one was valid enough, until I’ve made my point.
My Bible when I first read all the way through was a new living translation children’s adventure Bible. It had a few illustrations in the family-friendly well-covered areas, mostly new testament. I thought it was pretty fucked up in some parts already, and they did kind of change the phrasing and language to be less obvious to children what is being said.
The one I usually use for reference now is a new international version with no annotations or additional context that was gifted to me when I graduated highschool.
Yeah agreed, but the site is called “Skeptic’s annotated Bible” so they are going to notice. :)
https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/bible.php
Its mostly coming from Revelation. If the signs are fulfilled then the second coming is now a possibility whereas before that it’s not. I remember growing up in the cult there was news about a dam being built in the middle east which got everyone hyped because that could be the catalyst for one of the signs since in theory it could change the flow of a river…
One of the other things called out is Israel being beset from all sides by the world or something then the 40k elect will show up and you get the second kingdom or something. Idk been a while since I read Revelation much longer since I took it literally
I wish it were real just so I could see the looks on their faces when he rejects them
That shit was going on in the 80s back when I was on active duty.
The military has long had some of it at particular facilities — the Air Force academy is notorious. But it’s long been illegal, and was quite rare outside the military.
I thought there were multiple confirmations on that