Comments on: We’re DOOMED…..Again! http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/23/we_re_doomed_again A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: atomictesting http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/23/we_re_doomed_again/comment-page-1#comment-12133 atomictesting Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12133 The Armageddon stories in the bible are all written in the context of happening <i>in their lifetime</i>. It clearly didn't happen, it never will. My father apparently repeated a lot of this drivel around the time of my birth (incidentally just a day following the Jonestown mass suicide - generally known as the "Jonestown massacre" which is a little distruthful).<br /> <br /> He shut up about it for apparently 26 years, and has since taken it up again. Luckily I moved out a long time ago ;)<br /> <br /> It's funny how much of the bible is taken out of context and spun to make this story of impending rapture (for the believers) and doom (for the unbelievers) to keep people lock-step with xtianity. The Armageddon stories in the bible are all written in the context of happening in their lifetime. It clearly didn’t happen, it never will. My father apparently repeated a lot of this drivel around the time of my birth (incidentally just a day following the Jonestown mass suicide – generally known as the “Jonestown massacre” which is a little distruthful).

He shut up about it for apparently 26 years, and has since taken it up again. Luckily I moved out a long time ago ;)

It’s funny how much of the bible is taken out of context and spun to make this story of impending rapture (for the believers) and doom (for the unbelievers) to keep people lock-step with xtianity.

]]> By: http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/23/we_re_doomed_again/comment-page-1#comment-12140 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12140 Let's have Rope Leash go door-to-door and offer to help the True Believers return to his fold.<br /> <br /> Yep, put your head in this noose and jump for your Lord and Master. <br /> <br /> Praise God and pass the Rope...<br /> <br /> How many voted in the Red States? We are gonna need a sh*t load of rope.<br /> <br /> Are you willing to die for your beliefs? Well, are you, punk?<br /> <br /> Go ahead, make my day!<br /> <br /> Let’s have Rope Leash go door-to-door and offer to help the True Believers return to his fold.

Yep, put your head in this noose and jump for your Lord and Master.

Praise God and pass the Rope…

How many voted in the Red States? We are gonna need a sh*t load of rope.

Are you willing to die for your beliefs? Well, are you, punk?

Go ahead, make my day!

]]> By: natasha http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/23/we_re_doomed_again/comment-page-1#comment-12142 natasha Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12142 Girl at work says ?there sure are a lot of disasters happening now? with a special sparkle in her eyes. I said, ?please don?t tell me you think this is armageddon and the apocalypse and all that.? She says, ?well, there sure are a lot of earthquakes and hurricanes and things like that . . .?(university senior, goverment major, catholic).<br /> <br /> I conclude they want to believe in something, anything, and choose to hang their hat on Doom. Cuz bible says so. They want to be right so badly they?ll invest in being right about destruction. And they have the bomb, the western nations, so they can make it so, if they want to. Because bible says jeezuz won?t come on down until we?re all half dead so let?s get it on ! Girl at work says ?there sure are a lot of disasters happening now? with a special sparkle in her eyes. I said, ?please don?t tell me you think this is armageddon and the apocalypse and all that.? She says, ?well, there sure are a lot of earthquakes and hurricanes and things like that . . .?(university senior, goverment major, catholic).

I conclude they want to believe in something, anything, and choose to hang their hat on Doom. Cuz bible says so. They want to be right so badly they?ll invest in being right about destruction. And they have the bomb, the western nations, so they can make it so, if they want to. Because bible says jeezuz won?t come on down until we?re all half dead so let?s get it on !

]]> By: atomictesting http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/23/we_re_doomed_again/comment-page-1#comment-12143 atomictesting Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12143 Of course, we all know Armageddon is coming. There is proof in the bible that it will happen in 2006, according to Michael Drosnin's book, <i>The Bible Code</i>:<br /> <br /> (be sure to click the picture for the "Bible code image")<br /> http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/2006-Bush-War.htm<br /> <br /> More detail can be found at:<br /> http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/10/far04034.html Of course, we all know Armageddon is coming. There is proof in the bible that it will happen in 2006, according to Michael Drosnin’s book, The Bible Code:

(be sure to click the picture for the “Bible code image”)
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/2006-Bush-War.htm

More detail can be found at:
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/10/far04034.html

]]> By: rainbows4dinosaurs http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/23/we_re_doomed_again/comment-page-1#comment-12144 rainbows4dinosaurs Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12144 The Rapture Cult mindset is just a convenient little mental trick that allows the righties to abdicate their responsibility to the rest of the World. I can't tell how many times I my father told me "not to worry about the environment, God is coming to set things right soon." How nice.<br /> <br /> Anybody here read anything from the "Left Behind" series? My Dad's a huge fan, and it happens to be the pulpiest trash ever written for mental consumption. I mean it's REALLY trashy. Super macho nonsense abounds, but in a way it's an interesting read because of the incredibly strange characterization of non-christians. Maybe I'll find a copy and post some juicy examples.<br /> <br /> But anyway, there's a part of me that hopes they are right. Suddenly all the Southern Baptists disappear!!! Sounds like heaven on Earth to me.<br /> <br /> The Rapture Cult mindset is just a convenient little mental trick that allows the righties to abdicate their responsibility to the rest of the World. I can’t tell how many times I my father told me “not to worry about the environment, God is coming to set things right soon.” How nice.

Anybody here read anything from the “Left Behind” series? My Dad’s a huge fan, and it happens to be the pulpiest trash ever written for mental consumption. I mean it’s REALLY trashy. Super macho nonsense abounds, but in a way it’s an interesting read because of the incredibly strange characterization of non-christians. Maybe I’ll find a copy and post some juicy examples.

But anyway, there’s a part of me that hopes they are right. Suddenly all the Southern Baptists disappear!!! Sounds like heaven on Earth to me.

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