Christian loonies

[xoggoth]

Have a look at this article.

I thought at first they were making it up, but check out the links on that site. Do a google on antichrist in conjunction with the names mentioned in it, and the terms "Pre Tribulation Rapture", or eschatology.

There is a religious insanity spreading through the West and I don't mean Islam.

[The Lone Gunman]

The rapturists and the Muslims are all rushing towards armagedon happy in the knowledge that they will spend eternity in paradise.

If it were anything other than religion they would all be locked up as lunatics.

[Central-Scrutiniser]

Incredible and outlandish as it appears to us AirstripOne folks, I have been observing for some time the antics of these fervent lunatics.

They are hell bent on creating an Apocalptical event in the Middle East so they get to ascend to Heaven on the rapture ladder.

Laugh if you like but these extermists believe this and they occupy some pretty senior political positions, high enough to engineer such an event.

As the article has it...

For 15% of the electorate, the Middle East is not just a domestic matter, it's a personal one: if the president fails to start a conflagration there, his core voters don't get to sit at the right hand of God.



And just to show that madness is not the monopoly of the USA then I read with interest this snippet from the Rapture Ready Site

According to Moslem oral traditions (not written in the Koran) al Mahdi, who they believe disappeared in 941AD, will return to Earth when conditions have become so chaotic and desperate that he alone can save us.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad believes he has been brought to power specifically to hasten al Mahdi's return by plunging the world into such a state, and he believes he can accomplish this within 2 years.


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[The Lone Gunman]

All that stuff you said, edited for brevity

When you put down your Orwell you seem to have something to say, who would have thunk it?

[Central-Scrutiniser]

When you put down your Orwell you seem to have something to say, who would have thunk it?

Do you mean Orwell or Blair, either way I am neither.