oh lawdy lawdy, did we just get the old "the antichrist is coming!" line
again?
How many antichrists does that make it? AFAIK, it's been Nixon, JFK, Prince Charles, The Queen, Clinton, Bush Sr, Bush Jr (at least with those not convinced that the shrubbery was the second coming of christ) and now, unsurprisingly, the secret muslim, the not-really-american Obama.
Good grief.
Now, and I'm attempting not to Godwin the thread, but after WWII the jews gathered themselves in one place - they'd apparently been offered somewhere in Europe but didn't want it (although I don't know about the veracity of that claim). Unsurprisingly, they gathered in a physical locale close to where the old kingdom of Israel had been (it's not in exactly the same place, neither is it exactly the same size or shape).
The UK pulled out of babysitting the area, the jews then kicked out most of the arabs who'd been happily living there for the last few thousand years, proclaimed independence and reinstated a language which had been dead for millenia.
There are whisperings (which sadly make sense) that the only reason this was allowed to happen with so much leeway was that there are people in the USA actively attempting to bring about the end-times by allowing an Israel to be created, before which it couldn't be destroyed and usher in the end of the world, in accordance with prophecies which they hold so dear.
The problem, dear reader, isn't so much that the prophecies are bunk (and they are - they are obviously out of date and about peoples that no longer exist and have failed in many areas - see the fact that Egypt remains remarkably dragon-free to this day) but that there are loonies who believe so strongly, that they're willing to sacrifice whole nations by provoking trouble to bring about their rapture, wherein they feel sure they will be rewarded for being true believers.
sickening.
Edited by greyseal, : brain fart - described changed to destroyed
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