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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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End Times Hysteria Watch: Lyn Benedetto Allegedly Tried to Kill Her Daughters to Save Them from The Tribulation
The Antelope Valley Press, a northern Los Angeles County newspaper, had the following disturbing headline on Sunday, March 20, 2011: Mom feared ‘The Tribulation,’ cops say: Cut daughters’ throats, then her own. And the opening paragraph to the story was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apologetics, doomsday, End Times, fundamentalism, hysteria, John Macarthur, psychology, Revelation, social psychology, the Bible, the tribulation
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Weight Watchers Meets the Book of Revelation—and Denis Dutton
In the New York Times today, philosopher Denis Dutton meditates on our cultural fondness for the apocalyptic: We wallow in the idea that one day everything might change in, as St. Paul put it, the “twinkling of an eye” — … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Calvinism, conspiracy theories, guilt, last days, modernism, philosophy, psychology, Revelation, The Book of Revelation, weight watchers
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This Man’s Near Death Experience Has a Moving Turn at the End
From my vantage, people who have had near death experiences have a certain “street cred” when they claim that death is nothing to be frightened of. We believe human testimony in many other matters, and unless we are philosophically committed … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, death, despair, freedom, God, hope, life, near-death experiences, Revelation
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Bart Ehrman’s book, “God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Tell Us Why We Suffer”
I read Ehrman’s book recently and strongly recommend it. I liken Ehrman to an intelligent chess player who puts the squirming reader (who may not, at first, be inclined to agree with him) into methodical and logical checkmate. Ehrman shows why … Continue reading
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Tagged poets, problem of suffering, prophets, reason, religion, Revelation, Santi Tafarella, skepticism, squirming reader, traditional, Wilfred Owen
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