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Darwin, Lucretius, and End Times Hysteria
Regarding doomsday today, December 21, 2012, the calamity has already arrived: the comet hit in 1859 when Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species. I’m referring, of course, to the death of God. Since the Italian Renaissance and Anglo-French Enlightenment, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse, atheism, December 2012, End Times, lucretius, Nietzsche, prophecy, stephen greenblatt, the Bible
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Before You Do Something Stupid
It’s December 20, 2012, and regarding the Mayan calendar Doomsday date tomorrow, the Los Angeles Times reports the following: NASA says, “the world will not end in 2012.” “Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse, armageddon, critical thinking, End Times, failed prophecy, life, mark of the beast, Mayan calendar, prophecy
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Harold Camping’s Apocalypse Fail Watch: To Be Rapture Ready, Adrienne Martinez Gave up on Medical School!
Concerning radio evangelist Harold Camping’s apocalypse prediction fiasco, the Christian Post this afternoon reports on a specimen of the human wreckage. Here’s what the past year has been like for the Martinez family (after Adrienne and Joel came under the spell of the May 21, 2011 rapture … Continue reading
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Tagged cults, fraud, Harold Camping, hysteria, Jesus, John Macarthur, prophecy, prophecy fail, rapture ready, religion, Revelation, strange
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Teach Your Children (Mandarin) Well: Ian Morris Makes a Prediction
Ian Morris, the super-giant brained academic who belongs to, not one, but three academic departments at Stanford University (Classics, History, and Archeology), thinks we are fast entering the era of Far Eastern economic and political dominance and that it could … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Buddha, China, economics, economy, ian morris, Japan, korea, mandarin, predictions, prophecy, the future
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Messianic prophecy, Jesus, and an inconvenient fact
Am I impressed that the Hebrew Bible (the “Old Testament”) has numerous chapters and passages that seem to foreshadow Jesus’s ministry and death? No. Why? Because their predictive value is vastly diminished by an inconvenient fact: THE WRITERS OF THE NEW … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, bible prophecy, God, gospels, Jesus, John Macarthur, messianic prophecies, prophecy, religion, skepticism, the Bible
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A 2012 Prophecy: Suicides Will Accompany the Advent of December 21, 2012
It’s not a nice thought, but this is an easy prophecy to make. And it’s the singular prophecy surrounding December 21, 2012 that will almost surely come to pass. Perhaps you remember Heaven’s Gate. Heaven’s Gate was a San Diego based cult whose … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, atheist, conspiracy theories, December 21, End Times, New Age, predictions, prophecy, rush limbaugh, science, suicide, the second coming
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End Times Prophecy?
Michael Hirschorn of the Atlantic forecasts the end of the NY Times print edition. And it may come sooner rather than later, with 80% of its journalists laid off. Read the article here.
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Tagged dead tree journalism, economy, End Times, fourth estate, journalism, new york, New York Times, newspapers, prophecy, wall street
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Critical Thinking Watch: One Reason I’m Skeptical of the Claim That “Jesus Fulfilled Prophecies Made About Him in the Old Testament”
Here’s the claim: Passages in the Hebrew Bible, such as Isaiah 53, foresaw the life and death of Jesus—and thus constitute strong evidence that the Bible is a miraculous book. Why I’m skeptical: The Jewish scriptures were read carefully by the authors of the New … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, critical thinking, gospels, Hebrew Bible, Jesus, philosophy, prophecy, religion, skepticism, the Bible
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American Fast Food: The Back of a Televangelist’s Book Deconstructed
Daddy eye! I think that the back of this old book advertises itself in a crassly mendacious fashion. Here’s some things that I notice: The photo and the author’s name take up the top half of the back cover’s display—suggesting that … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, cults, Dostoevsky, literature, marketing, media, propaganda, prophecy, public relations, Santi Tafarella, televangelists
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Prometheus Unbound 