OMFG - Blood in the Water- the oil spill heralds the apocalypse

[malaise]

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A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse?

About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Broadly speaking, these Christians subscribe to a theology called "premillennial dispensationalism." In this world view, they are warriors on the side of God: a cosmic battle—culminating in apocalypse, judgment, and, finally, the reign of Jesus in "a new heaven and a new earth"—will come soon. The most determined of these believers mine the Book of Revelation for signs that the end is near.

Now blogs on the Christian fringe are abuzz with possibility that the oil spill is the realization of Revelation 8:8–11. "The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea became blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed … A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter." According to Revelation, in other words, something terrible happens to the world's water, a punishment to those of insufficient faith. The foul water, according to the New Oxford Annotated Bible, mirrors one of the plagues God called upon Egypt on behalf of his people Israel.

Though maybe it's Revelation 16:3: "The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing in the sea died."

Some interpreters are very sure: The oil spill matches biblical prophesy and is another predictor of the end. One commenter at Godlike Productions argues that the redness of the oil seen in pictures can be interpreted as blood. "The water is tinted red from the oil … it ACTUALLY looks like blood. coincidence??? NOT!!!!"
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These fucking people are crazy.

sp.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Let them all go jump inthe Gulf and facilitate their ascension to the great beyond..

Whatever they leave behind should be given to the poor.

[malaise]

4. You know that's a great idea

Maybe we should encourage them to take a dip and soar beyond the clouds although oil and gravity may take them closer to hell. :evilgrin:

[mnhtnbb]

2. Eh. What else is new. These people are nut cases. However, the damage

done by the continued oil leak is real.

[Dogtown]

34. The damage done

by the continuation of Apocalypse Addiction is also real.

[krispos42]

3. If they are Bible literalists... where's the fire? n/t

[BanzaiBonnie]

11. Well, we are in for upcoming solar activity

Those in the know and planning for this say that this will be like nothing we've seen before. Solar weather will be affecting us as much as terrestrial weather.

[malaise]

19. Here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36683314/ns/us_news-life/#hybrid_video

[Crabby Appleton]

22. fire

[krispos42]

27. Well, that wasn't a burning mountain being thrown by a unicorn-riding angel

Still, that was a most impressive torch shooting up there... :wow:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. What's wrong with these people? They should get down to the gulf with their scrubbing brushes

penance

[KansasVoter]

6. Religion and Logic do not mix!

[SidDithers]

7. These fundies should re-read Kings...

2 Kings 4:6

When all the jars were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another one." But he replied, "There is not a jar left." Then the oil stopped flowing.

:rofl:

Sid

[malaise]

10. LOL

Getting up off the floor :rofl:

[Katarina]

8. Hmmm...

I for one wouldn't be against this...Make the rapture happen faster so they can bugger off and get out of my face.

[malaise]

15. The sad reality is that they are going nowhere

They'll be around to infect the planet with stupidity and ignorance

[Katarina]

20. Sadly you are right

But the thought is nice. :evilgrin:

[malaise]

21. Very very nice

:hi:

[G_j]

9. Rejoice!

he's coming!

that is what they will turn this into.

[malaise]

14. Quite a new way to defend big oil

Remember some of the RW hacks are already spinning this as an act of gawd so maybe gawd is sending his only begotten BP to baptize them in toxic caramel goo before the grand apocalypse.

[Voice for Peace]

12. the world WILL end in their lifetime. for them.

at the end, the world ends for everyone.

[malaise]

17. It's always about them

:hi:

[NC_Nurse]

13. They read EVERYTHING as a sign of their coming Rapture. Yawn.

[malaise]

18. They really hate life

but there is nothing else. What a pathetic existence - living for death.

[Rex]

16. Those poor dumb fundies, always seeking the end of times.

What a bunch of idiots, nevermind the fact that they don't live THIS life...so enamored with the NEXT! Stupidstupidstupid.

[malaise]

24. +1,000

:hi:

[Better Today]

23. I am beginning to hope they are correct; this world could use a human population

that's a lot closer to extinction.

[anthroguy101]

25. Some bible passages to correct this nuttery

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 1Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Peter 3:10 10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

[thecrow]

26. Sounds more like a comet hit.

Where are all the destroyed ships?

[nilram]

28. If that's the second trumpet, then what about the first one?

That was Revelations 8:8. Here's Revelations 8: 7,

"The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up."

I've still got green grass in my yard (it's been rainy here), so I don't get how the second trumpet would be blown if the first hasn't. I guess I don't go to the right churches.

[depakid]

29. Thinking more like the plagues of Egypt

as in Locusts:

Locust swarms survive cold weather

Locusts are defying predictions they would be killed off by cold weather, with reports still persisting of large swarms in Victoria's Wimmera-Mallee.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/04/2917944.htm

Moroccan locusts cause biggest damage in last life development stage: deputy mayor

Last year saw the most serious problem with the invasion of Moroccan locusts. The insects have several stage of life development. They were in their last stage of development and there was no meaning taking any measures, because they were to die, but in that stage they cause the biggest damage, Sevdalin Ognyanov, deputy mayor of the southern municipality of Momchilgrad, told FOCUS News Agency.

He says this year the most affected regions in the municipality are the villages of Postnik, Devintsi, Nanovitsa, Gruevo and Lale. He specified that last year the swarm of Moroccan locusts was very large, but the necessary measures were not taken and now the invasion continues.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n221851

Locust-stricken areas in southern Bulgaria sprayed as planned: minister

The Moroccan locust-stricken areas in southern district of Kardzhali are being sprayed since Sunday morning, Minister of Agriculture and Food Miroslav Naydenov told FOCUS News Agency. He says the weather conditions grounded the agricultural helicopter for a short time, but the areas are being sprayed as planned. He expressed hope the measures will produce results and the agricultural produce will be saved.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n221949

[WCGreen]

30. These fucking lunatics taking literally that rantings of a mad monk

holed up on an island by himself as anything more than perhaps an allegory deserve the life they lead because they miss so much while hoping for the next world...

[eShirl]

33. I always preferred Queen's mad "Prophet" to that old one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_AxOqzetdE

The Prophet's Song

Oh oh people of the earth
Listen to the warning the seer he said
Beware the storm that gathers here
Listen to the wise man

I dreamed I saw on a moonlit stair
Spreading his hand to the multitude there
A man who cried for a love gone stale
And ice cold hearts of charity bare
I watched as fear took the old mans gaze
Hopes of the young in troubled graves
i see no day I heard him say
So grey is the face of every mortal

Oh oh people of the earth!
listen to the warning the prophet he said
For soon the cold of night will fall
Summoned by your own hand

Ah ah children of the land
Quicken to the new life take my hand
Fly and find the new green bough
Return like the white dove

He told of death as a bone white haze
Taking the lost and the unloved babes
Late too late all the wretches run
These kings of beasts now counting their days
From mothers love is the son estranged
Married his own his precious gain
The earth will shake in two will break
And death all round will be your dowry

Oh oh people of the earth
Listen to the warning the seer he said
For those who hear and mark my words
Listen to the good plan

Oh oh oh oh and two by two my human zoo
Theyll be running for to come
Running for to come out of the rain

Oh flee for your lives who heed me not
Let all your treasures make you fear for your life
Deceive you not the fires of hell will take you
Should death await you

(Many awesome vocal overlays)

God give you grace to purge this place
And peace all around will be your fortune

Oh Oh children of the land,
Love is still the answer take my hand
The vision fades, the voice I hear
Don't listen to the mad man

But still I fear and still I dare not
Laugh at the mad man

[Betty Karlson]

31. Actually, this makes some sense to me

Call me crazy, but the economic volatility of the Bush years + the growth of income disparity + looming ecological disaster + rogue states acquiring nuclear technology + Middle East crises spinning out of control = potential for an apocalypse.

[Hubert Flottz]

32. BP has killed more crabs by accident than blue ointment did

on purpose.

Say Amen Somebody!

[malaise]

35. Amen

:rofl:

[Mari333]

36. heh. they have been doing this for years. I followed their shenanigans before 2000

they were all a twitter about the year 2000, and were hoarding supplies and guns and hanging around bunkers. some of them even journeyed to the Hill of Megiddo to hang out with video cameras to tape the last judgement .

they are crazy oh yes.

[Ganja Ninja]

37. "is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse?"

Well of course it is. Isn't everything? Rush's fourth marriage? Elton John playing at it? What else could it mean?

And let me say that I personally can't wait to see everyone dragged down into the fiery bowels of hell to an eternity of everlasting torment while I and I alone rise to take my rightful place at the right hand of God.

Did I mention that I was born again over the weekend?

:crazy: