Showing posts with label Muslim. Show all posts
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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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Friday, May 17, 2013

More on the 'Miracles' of the Children of Israel Fleeing Egypt

Pillars of Fire and Smoke, Splitting a Sea in Two, Water from a Rock, and More...
     There are so many supposed miracles in the Old Testament that are claimed to have taken place when the Children of Israel were fleeing Egypt. It would be far too much to put it all into one blog and so I have broken it up into several postings as you can probably surmise from previous posts.
     The manner in which many preachers twist and turn the stories of the Bible into some kind of morality Dear Abby column is disturbing. And there is always that little hint of, "Hey, don't worry about what God tells you to do. Just do it. Even if other people would not do it, you should still do it because that is what God wants of you. Other people who don't understand cannot understand because they don't believe in the truth as you do." 
     Nice. That is how the bastards who flew the planes into the World Trade Center approached their life and supposed spiritual calling. The infidels won't understand because they don't have the truth so you just go on and do what I tell you to do.
     The preacher here says something along the lines of there are people who will not understand what you do because it is not logical, makes no sense. Remember I am paraphrasing that. However, those with the truth will not let it bother them that they do not know what the hell is going on. They just have faith and follow whatever God says because God knows what he is doing. God will be your pillar of fire and pillar of smoke. Ludicrous.

      So, I am wondering whether or not the pillar of fire the Israelites saw was similar to what is in this clip. It is interesting, but not all that impressive. I have seen scarier looking tornadoes on the weather channel. Of course, I am sure if I were standing right there I would say something somewhat different. I mean, geeze, fire kills right?
     I would probably be freaked out by a ginormous pillar of fire traipsing around the desert. Yes. That would be scary. But I know for sure I would not follow it with the hope that wherever the pillar of fire was going it knew what it was doing and would get me there safely. The definition of faith does not include making stupid, uninformed decisions.

      I liked this video and think this gentleman did a good job of bringing across his opinion and providing a valid line of philosophical reasoning to back up what he was saying. I also like the fact he grew up in a very religious family and had far more than a simple working knowledge of the Bible and what people thought or felt that it meant.

     The title of this video is hilarious: Signs of God Announcing His Judgment. It does not matter that anyone knows how fire works and how weather and heat and wind and all that fun stuff affects it...because it is all a sign from God. So stupid. It is nothing more than an out of control fire taking place in an area suffering from drought and high winds. Geeze.

     Hello boys and girls. My name is Aunt Fruitcake and I have a story for you. It is called, "Do everything that God says to do and you won't burn in hell forever like everyone else will." Awww, the sweet stories people drowning in religion teach their children.

     This is a fucked up video. Seriously. It is quite graphic. I have not posted it out of a desire to be disrespectful but out of a desire to show how the religiously deluded take every terrible and wicked thing possible and use that to try to peddle the supposed power and wares of their terrible God. Does that make them feel better? I do not know.
     Maybe they figure they can get far more religious recruits by scaring people half to death and showing them terrible pictures while at the same time implying that if people don't believe in a certain manner something similar or equally terrible will happen to them.
     By the way, do you like the opening screen shots that show the clouds? Sure, the clouds are large and beautiful but her attempt to draw a religious parallel fails miserably.

     Don't you just love what-if scenarios? This is a hoot. Why, look what we have found...chariot wheels in the Red Sea! Well, that MUST mean the story in the Bible of Moses parting the Red Sea must be true. So retarded. You know how many civilizations utilized the chariot? Especially in that region? Do you think a busted up chariot is going to last that long under the water? Oh, but the water is cold and preserved the chariot wheel. Whatever.
     So many interpreters of the Bible can't even agree on where the supposed crossing of the Red Sea took place. Due to that fact many groups and religious individuals do everything they can with whatever information they have to meld a believable story for all those who would follow.

     So, this video opens with the words of knowing who the I AM is and whether or not He is trusted. You know, I was thinking. I have trusted people in my life. The people I have deeply trusted I still trust to this day. Never once has any of the people I have trusted so deeply ever led me to think or believe or suspect or worry that something is not quite right or something might go wrong or maybe I am trusting for the wrong reason but I will take the chance, no. Never. There is no question in my mind I can trust these individuals.
     Then we have God. It seems like the guy is always saying or doing something that leaves the humbled human being wondering what the hell is going on and whether or not what God is telling them to do is a good idea or a bad idea or a very big mistake. If God is so great and so powerful and so wonderful and so awesome there would not be one being who would ever question or wonder whether or not what they were being asked to do was the right thing.

     Well, look what we have here! Another interpretation of the Exodus story and what the Bible REALLY meant in regards to that story. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be. It is business as usual for the hypocrisy of religion.

     As you watch and read this clip I want you to pay close attention to the distance traveled by the fleeing Israelites from Egypt and Pharaoh's presence to the Red Sea. Now, are you going to tell me that anywhere from 600,000 to 1.5 million people (men, women, and children) and flocks, HERDS of animals traveled that distance in the time stated by the Bible?
     It is a crock of shit plain and simple. Unless, of course, God waived His magic wand and allowed the Israelites not only the power to walk really REALLY fast (the animals and kids and babies, too) but the extra power to NOT get tired from walking so far for so long. They would have to be walking at an enormous rate 24 hours a day for days on end. No stops. No encampments.
     So, if God had the power to grant all of these amazing powers and miracles to the Israelites why the hell didn't He just give them the power to leave in the first place instead of dragging them through supposed 400 years of slavery and then a bit more time as God decided exacting some plagues upon pharaoh was a good idea? Why kill all the first-born if God can just take His people out and get it over with? Wait, that's right...that was God's plan.
     This God of the Bible is not a good guy. Read what it says in Exodus about what God did to pharaoh. God purposely hardened the pharaoh's heart so that God would have a reason to plague Egypt. Total loser of a God. So wrong and so unethical in so many ways it is no wonder why so many people have had it with religion and its method of murderous stupidity.

     More people going out of their way and doing everything possible in an effort to force the stories of the Bible to fit into some kind of absurd explanation that is passed off as logic but really isn't.

     This one is pretty fucking funny. I like the quasi-techno music in the beginning that I supposed is intended to spark great joy in the believer who watches this crap. Listen to the explanations of this rock and really look at the landscape they are pointing to as they are trying to describe why a rock isn't really a rock but an altar. And to think we have people who truly believe this delusion under the guise that believing without any question not only shows their deep level of faith, but it also doubles as a validating factor for whatever cracker jack is being believed.

     So much for the people in the previous video finding the rock that Moses supposedly bonked with his staff in order to draw water out of it. Every religion stakes its claim and proclaims its truth and decrees that all others are wrong and false. It is all completely devoid of intellect and common sense.



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