Religious Groups Attempting To Engineer Armageddon
June 23rd, 2006 | researchmaterial
For thousands of years, prophets have predicted the end of the world. Today, various religious groups, using the latest technology, are trying to hasten it.
Their endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah. For some Christians this means laying the groundwork for Armageddon. With that goal in mind, mega-church pastors recently met in Inglewood to polish strategies for using global communications and aircraft to transport missionaries to fulfill the Great Commission: to make every person on Earth aware of Jesus’ message. Doing so, they believe, will bring about the end, perhaps within two decades.
In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a far different vision. As mayor of Tehran in 2004, he spent millions on improvements to make the city more welcoming for the return of a Muslim messiah known as the Mahdi, according to a recent report by the American Foreign Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank. To the majority of Shiites, the Mahdi was the last of the prophet Muhammad’s true heirs, his 12 righteous descendants chosen by God to lead the faithful. Ahmadinejad hopes to welcome the Mahdi to Tehran within two years.
Conversely, some Jewish groups in Jerusalem hope to clear the path for their own messiah by rebuilding a temple on a site now occupied by one of Islam’s holiest shrines. Artisans have re-created priestly robes of white linen, gem-studded breastplates, silver trumpets and solid-gold menorahs to be used in the Holy Temple — along with two 6½-ton marble cornerstones for the building’s foundation.
Then there is Clyde Lott, a Mississippi revivalist preacher and cattle rancher. He is trying to raise a unique herd of red heifers to satisfy an obscure injunction in the Book of Numbers: the sacrifice of a blemish-free red heifer for purification rituals needed to pave the way for the messiah…
Sounds like Clyde saw season two of ReGenesis.
Clyde Lott was interviewed in 1999 by Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker for Chicago-based radio series This American Life. It’s the first story, about 5 minutes into the show. This particular episode is entirely about Apocalyptic beliefs. Interesting stuff.
http://audio.wbez.org/tal/125.m3u
Then there’s George Bush, who is seeking to hasten the end times by starting a global war with Muslims, purging the sinners at home, and playing chicken with the godless heathen communists of China through their North Korean proxy.
All it takes is one True Beleiver in the right place…
Humans are insane.
I think that rebuilding the Temple, there, might hasten Armageddon in a completely different manner…
Wired had an article a few years back about some guy trying to “peacefully” rebuild the temple by laser projecting it above the Dome of the Rock. I’d link to it, but Wired is blocked at work.
Thank fuck the lunatics haven’t taken over the asylum yet..
You don’t live in the US, do you Shay?
When the Rapture happens, I say we all drop our guns and go for drinks. After all, the instigators just left.
First round’s on me.
It’s times like these that I wonder if Shiva, Muhammad, YHWH, Jesus, Buddha, and Laotzi aren’t sitting up there somewhere, looking down at us from their game of poker and going “I wonder if it’s too late to convert to agnosticism.”
Information which was communicated at the press conference of political
party “ДРУГГ†on 15th June 2006 in the Business Center of the Trade
Chamber of RF
For any press-conferences
to inform in the first place
The Customer of the Arrest of Grigoriy Grabovoy has been Determined
The Statement of the Field Service of Liberation of Grigoriy Grabovoy
for all Mass Media
The source of this information is the special services of Uzbekistan.
The customer of arrest of Grigoriy Grabovoy had been determined after
some people requested the acquaintances of Grigoriy Grabovoy and people
with whom he studied to give discreditable and slanderous information
about Grigoriy Grabovoy for USD 35’000. Compare the offered amounts with
the cost of an apartment in Tashkent which could be bought at USD 4’000.
The special services determined people who offered tens of thousands of
dollars for slander against Grigoriy Grabovoy. These people appeared to
be Wakhkhabits who were involved some time ago in the explosions in
Tashkent; and now they are acting according to the direct order of Osama
Bin Laden, terrorist No 1 in the world. An audio and video record with
communication of Osama Bin Laden was received on 8th June 2006. High
rank officials of RF and mass media who instituted criminal prosecution
against Grigoriy Grabovoy and carry out corresponding informational
preparation receive payments from Osama Bin Laden through banks of
Australia and through dummies. Therefore the criminal prosecution
against Grigoriy Grabovoy is carried out based on faked-up data in such
a way that even Mr. Sechin from Administration of President of RF,
according to the information of Regnum agency, informed that Mr.
Ustinov, the General Public Prosecutor of RF, resigned because he
refused to support prosecution against Grigoriy Grabovoy.
On 30th May 2006 the preventive punishment of Grigoriy Grabovoy in the
form of imprisonment was prolonged; and on 2nd June 2006 Mr. Ustinov
resigned. Within one week after the resignation the criminal
prosecution against Grigoriy Grabovoy increased incommensurably.
Persecution of Grigoriy Grabovoy on the part of international terrorism
takes place based on the order of the leader because Grigoriy Grabovoy
gives exact forecasts on counter-terror.
Grigoriy Grabovoy handed over on an official receipt an exact forecast
about the terrorists’ act on 11th September 2001 in the USA, almost half
a year before, on 23rd March 2001, to Academician of Russian Academy of
Sciences Savin, and Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences
Bondur.
Grigoriy Grabovoy published a forecast about the seizure of Nord-Ost
hostages one month and a half before the event.
Grigoriy Grabovoy publicly gave information about the terrorists’ act in
Beslan which took place on 3rd–4th September; the information is
available on the video record of the seminar conducted by Grigoriy
Grabovoy in October 2003, i.e. 11 months before the event. He tried to
submit this information many time but no one used it.
About the terrorists’ act in Nalchik on 13th – 14th October 2005,
Grigoriy Grabovoy gave an exact forecast with the exact date of the
events and possible consequences with nuclear explosions one month
before this terrorists’ act at the meeting of more than a thousand of
people. The forecast was used; due to this the nuclear war in Russia
was avoided. This is proved by official documents.
Strong counter-action to Grigoriy Grabovoy started when he announced
that the volunteers of his Teachings would assist in provision of
security of President of RF V.V.Putin because the terrorists are not
interested in real and complete security of Putin V.V.
We would like to ask all mass media to publish this communication,
informing that the customer of the criminal prosecution against Grigoriy
Grabovoy is Osama Bin Laden, on the first pages of newspapers and to
give this information significant time in the air.
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http://www.drugg.ru
Tom Robbins’ novel “Skinny Legs and All” has an interesting take on this whole issue.
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As I’ve been saying for, literally, years: “If the Apocalypse wasn’t coming, someone crazy would try to make it come.” I see now that my paranoia has legs, and is doing marathons.
Fucking Solar Death Cults. Ruin it for everybody, why don’cha?