Sunday, May 19, 2013

Waiting for Jesus...

...and Waiting and Waiting and Waiting...
     This is absolutely amazing. This gentleman even knows the length of time that the supposed rapture itself will take: 1/64th of a second. Granted I am not by any means a Bible scholar per se. I was, however, raised in a very religious family where the lessons of the Bible were pounded into us day in and day out. I cannot find any verse in the Bible that offers the measurement of 1/64th of a second as the length of time for the actual rapture it self to occur. 

     So this guy basically says that we are pretty close to hearing a knock at the door that will be Jesus. Listen specifically to when he says the rapture and the return of Jesus or at least the marvelous signs of such will return...as it seems Thanksgiving and Christmas will be good candidates.
     Then he goes on to insinuate that the state of countries on the continent of Africa and the wars in the Middle East are ever=present signs Jesus is getting closer and closer. Never mind that the African continent has suffered from untold catastrophe for as long as anyone can remember, I mean, go get a goddamn history book and read for yourself.
     But then you have the guy's claim that the skirmishes in the Middle East mean something. So ridiculous. Geeze, the cultures in the Middle East fight because they choose to fight and have always fought each other over gods and cultural practices and every other friggin thing they can stew up a fight over. The fighting in the Middle East is nothing new.

      This guy is a hoot! Just another faithful interpreter of Bible rhetoric who twists and turns the words of the Bible to fit with the badly mutilated meaning of human struggles in conjunction with the Bible meanings so that whatever version of when Jesus' arrival is supposed to be can be validated. Go and write a better story.

      Look! Up in the sky...it's a tornado! It's a hail storm! It's...JESUS!

      Why can't an earthquake just be an earthquake? Why can't a volcanic eruption just be an eruption? A flood a flood? A tsunami a tsunami? A sinkhole a sinkhole? No one will argue that the forces of nature are not scary. Yes, they can be utterly frightening. But these movements of our planet and the weather upon the planet are part of the health of this living planet and have jack shit to do with any kind of deity utilizing the forces of nature to kill and frighten people as a warning that He is about to return.

      More cheesey pictures with even cheesier music accompanied by a deluge of scripture intended to bully and frighten people into believing that a vengeful and self-righteous God and His son are on their way to badger humanity a little more before deciding who gets to live and who gets to die. It sounds suspiciously like Hitler is about to make another grand entrance.

      Do you like the music of the opening sequence? The people who did this video do a very good job of mimicking the ABC Nightly News music before putting in a few extra tones so that no copyrights are broken. 

      Watch this video from beginning to end as it is an excellent example of, "Don't let the fear of religion happen to you." Living a life of fear. Nice. That is SOME GOD you have there. By the way, where is all the love and compassion and grace of this God? You don't really have to answer because not only do you NOT have a sufficient answer, but it is really more of a rhetorical question to begin with.

      That's right, let's use one of the more recognizable opera songs associated with terror and destruction and then couple THAT with loads of scary imagery with just a slight peppering of delusional scripture.

      This is so stupid. Why would anyone want back some deity that allowed so many horrible things to happen to untold millions within history? WHY? Oh, but it is man's freewill that did all the bad shit. Whatever, dude. That is a complete copout and you know it. How many millions and millions have died ion recorded history due to floods or wildfires or the forces of nature altogether? How does that compute into your special little equasion of the freewill of man? Do the forces of nature have freewill as well? Why in the world would a loving and righteous God allow the frightening use of weather to announce the return of His son? So everyone can see Him? If He is the Son of God wouldn't everyone know who He is to begin with and so all that is divine can dispense with killing and frightening people with forces of nature?

      Classic 'Jesus is coming back to get you' bullshit.

      Every election there is one group or another that tries desperately to use the stories emerging out of the election to fashion some kind of proof that Jesus is reaching out to push the doorbell to announce His return.

      Oh LORD! This guy looks like an Oompah-Loompah on steroids hopping about on a religious stage as he tries desperately to validate all of his disillusioned religious claims. Jesus is here! Jesus is here! Enough!

      Don't forget that all difficult times must be a sign of Jesus coming back.

      Oh look, two pompous assholes communing over religion. Quick! Get the camera! Jesus MUST be coming back for real this time.

      Listen to what the guy says at the beginning, "For those who don't believe that the Bible is real..." Oh, the Bible is REAL alright, it just isn't true. Big difference there, sir. It is amazing when people come across something they either have not seen and experienced for themselves or something that usually does not occur on a regular basis but that is still scary nonetheless and then take that and chalk it up to some kind of twisted validation of the claims of the Bible. So very goddamn sad people waste their time with such garbage. Jesus is coming back? No no no. And the constant assertions and fighting over such does absolutely nothing to backup such a stupid claim to begin with and does nothing to help people or situations or society.

      Sure, sure, sure. And there were also people who claimed that Reagan himself was the antichrist and was a sure sign that Jesus would return sometime in the 1980s. Go back and formulate a better story.

      Hah! This John Hagee guy is a real hoot. I will be doing a blog on him, but for now just get the basic message that this guy thinks some mighty guy nmaed Jesus is on His way back to earth. Nope.

      Oooohhh. Signs that jesus is on His way back to earth to torture people some more in order to get them to believe and bow to and serve this God who seemingly has a very big problem with wanting attention and lots of it.



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