'End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon -LATimes

[Demeter]

IT'S NOT JUST THE CRHISTIAN FUNDIES, FOLKS!

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-endtimes22jun22,0,3150611,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines


'End times' religious groups want apocalypse sooner than later, and they're relying on high tech -- and red heifers -- to hasten its arrival.
By Louis Sahagun
Times Staff Writer

June 22, 2006

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.
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FOR THE RECORD:
End times: An article in Thursday's Section A about religious groups trying to hasten the end of the world incorrectly identified the Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood as the Faith Central Bible Church. —

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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...So far, only one of his cows has been verified by rabbis as worthy, meaning they failed to turn up even three white or black hairs on the animal's body.

[saltpoint]

1. Well at least they were willing to wait until after the All-Star Game.

[Kikosexy2]

3. Well the Anti-Christ is...

in the WH already...what's the hold up....when do those Christian fundies get their 666 tattoos? While the rest of us non Anti-Christ (Bush) believers are rapturously sent to heaven?...Jews have returned to Zion....and bombing the shit out of the Middle East...man is getting mighty hateful and turning against eachother...so what gives....Dear Lord blow up this freakin' world and start fresh...earthly kingdom you originally intended to have...with no evil, satan-worshipping, neocon, zionist hoodlum Republicans...

[saltpoint]

4. Hey. Not to worry. Two words: Condi Rice. Sec of State. Fashion

maven. Former Brahms freak.

She's probably going to look into this whole thing when she gets back from her latest shopping trip.

[Kikosexy2]

6. The Great Whore...

to the rescue...shit were doomed!...indeed the Devil wears Prada...that's all!

[saltpoint]

8. LOL! "The Devil wears Prada" !

[villager]

2. we are an utterly lunatic species

for whom hope diminishes by the day, if not hour...

[glitch]

5. Pray for their immediate rapture. Everybody, all together now. Do it! nt

:evilgrin:

[orwell]

7. And these people...

...are in charge...

Lovely...

[Kurovski]

9. One grows weary of their deep hatred for life, and of their lust for

destruction being played-out on the world stage.

Dangerous lunatics, one and all.

[bloom]

10. I wonder...

If this isn't just Ahmadinejad doing what Bush* is doing - getting the masses riled up for war.


"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...."

[Raster]

11. Since these nut jobs claim to have a direct line to the Almighty, I propose

we make them nail down the specific date and time the rapture is supposed to happen. When it doesn't, and we all know it won't, I say we ignore them and treat them like the crackpots they truly are. I challenge any of these religious idiots to produce ONE competent biblical scholar that buys into the rapture concept.

[struggle4progress]

12. "Fools waiting for the Day of the Lord! What will that Day mean to you?

It will mean darkness, not light -- as if you fled from a lion only to meet a bear or rested your hand on the wall of your house and were bitten by a snake." Amos 5:18