Posted on 08/09/2006 9:02:18 AM PDT by presidio9
Better cancel those holidays. We now have a date for Armageddon, and it's a week on Tuesday - August 22.
This information comes from no lesser source than the Wall Street Journal, where Bernard Lewis, President Bush's favourite historian, provides the details.
"In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity," the professor writes, "there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time - Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long-awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined.
"Mr Ahmadinejad [the Iranian president] and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the US about nuclear development by August 22. This was at first reported as 'by the end of August', but Mr Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise."
Lewis continues: "What is the significance of August 22? This year, August 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque', usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (cf, Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and, if necessary, of the world."
This sort of quasi-religious scaremongering always finds a receptive audience in the United States, especially among Christians of the jihadist
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suck up to the terrorists posts by attempting to spread fear posts.....ummm....how many times have you posted now?
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Cute unwarranted and untrue attack. Nicely done. Should be an award around here somewhere for it.
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FWIW,
Some of us enjoy dialoguing about the topic from our perspective and enjoy each other being sounding boards, iron sharpening iron and even humor on the topic in whatever ebb and flow developes.
The good humor folks evidence a lack of compulsion to be overly understanding, sympathetic, accomodating etc. of our perspective yet throw a hissy fit if we are not understanding, sympathetic and accommodating to theirs. Actually, they don't even seem to like it if we just ignore them and do our thing on the thread as they could do and were doing on the thread. I guess it's more of THEY CAN but WE CAN'T.
*sigh* and *bwhahahaha*! Who knew that our pizza would come with pepperoni and prophecy? I would've ordered the calzone had I known..;)
Enjoy away.
Be my guest. I enjoy humor too and have engaged in some hereon.
Just please, no arbitrary standards about what I can enjoy plausibly under the same thread title.
You are KILLING me today...........just killing me..........ROFLMAO.
ROTFLOL!
Yet I'M the sanctimonious one?
LOL!
LOL!
LOL!
LOL!
Ironic considering that Paul wrote a book on the very subject Hal Lindsey's show was based around, and Hal Lindsey wrote the foreward of that book, and that book was offered as a "TBN Love Gift Of The Month".
I thought we were going to be drinking, Quix?
Must be, because I'm not the one with issues in this thread.
How about some RED, RED WINE to counter the Blue, Blue Whine?
I pay attention to everything. It's all important information.
EXCELLENT, and thanks!
FOFLOL. Oh, stop. Tooo funny... I need to shut down the 'puter for a few. We're in the midst of some seriously serious storms.... very loud, booming storms with lots and lots of rain... Y'all carry on til I can get back :)
I hope your storm is heading here, but the radar says NO.
See you soon!
Ditto... What Howlin said.
We could sure use some rain here too. Fire department frequency was busy on the scanner last night. Several grass fires were started by lightning from a storm that knocked my power out several times last night.
ROTFLMCO!!! I need another box of tissues.
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