Blaming Obama for the ‘blood moon’ - true lunacy

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Overnight, sky gazers were able to enjoy a rare and beautiful sight: a so-called “blood moon” in which Earth’s shadow completely covers the moon

It wouldn’t have occurred to me to connect this to politics in any way, but as Brian Tashman noted this morning, WorldNetDaily manages to “fit criticism of President Obama into nearly everything it publishes, including its story in Monday’s lunar eclipse.”

Citing the president’s comments from January – “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone” – about using executive orders and executive actions in the face of congressional obstruction, right-wing pastor Mark Biltz told WND today that the “blood moon” is a divine warning to Obama that God has “more than a pen and a phone in his hand.”

“In the book of Joel it mentions three times about the sun and the moon going dark and in context it also mentions Divine wrath against all countries that want to divide or part the land of Israel,” Biltz said, touching on a frequent Religious Right claim that Obama administration efforts to broker a Mideast peace deal will lead to divine punishment.

“Like Pharaoh the leaders and pundits of today will realize when it comes to crossing the red lines of the Creator of the universe he has more than a pen and a phone in his hand.”

The WorldNetDaily piece, which I assure you was not published as satire, added a quote from the pastor that “blood moons” carry “great historic and prophetic significance,” adding, “I believe the moons are like flashing red warning lights at a heavenly intersection.”

[underpants]

1. He is ALL POWERFUL

Got a link?

[ashling]

5. Apparently the link has been

removed by the LORD ALMIGHTY.

try this:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/blaming-obama-the-blood-moon

[Rod Beauvex]

2. Actually...

It's showing us the color of the party that is causing all our problems.

[The Straight Story]

3. It ran red with the blood of our people in Benghazi!!! AHHHHHH

[Blue Owl]

4. A Conservative Flunkie in King Arthur's Court

n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

6. MOONGHAZI!!!11!

[Xipe Totec]

7. Totally overlooking the one year anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing.

Because, why not.

[malaise]

8. Superstitious, ignorant nutters have been chatting shite about blood moons

for millennia - ignore these morons.

[nyquil_man]

9. It seems to me that this God guy

could have simply ensured that Obama was never elected in the first place.

A blood moon seems like a pretty poor consolation prize.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. hahahaha. nt

[pinboy3niner]

11. Isn't suggesting that God is mooning us kind of...blasphemous?

I wouldn't want to be standing near that guy in a thunderstorm...

[LisaLynne]

12. You think that's bad ...

wait until God decides to give us the finger.

[yuiyoshida]

13. Why is it that EVERY DAMNED THING....

that happens in the news has to have that CHRISTIAN VIEW tossed on top of it? Does anyone else get tired of having to be told the CHRISTIAN VIEW on everything that happens in the news? IS it just me...or am I being Oscar the grouch?



(psst, Oscar was really a Biblical Demon sent to educate eat children.) kidding.

[Jim Lane]

16. I'm an agnostic who LIKES reading stuff like this.

The stupidity is amusing in its own right, plus I get to feel superior.

And, yes, I know, believers in God have written brilliant books and composed beautiful music and revolutionized science. I'm not saying that every religious person is on a level with the good pastor Biltz. I just hope that he and his ilk continue to receive media attention.

[steve2470]

17. it's the wacko RW view that makes the news

The rest of we sane Christians don't say or think batshit insane things like that.

[MisterP]

14. ohhh the Chaldeans are gonna be MAAAD

[Blue Idaho]

15. This is what happens when we let people think bible stories are as valid as science.

Fucking flat earthers and creationists need to be shouted down in the public square or we will be sacrificing virgins to the rising sun.