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TheHeretic -> RE: New Poll! Is Obama the Antichrist! (3/25/2010 6:59:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub
Although we are each entitled to our own opinions, we are not entitled to our own facts. I presented some facts that support a "theory" that is far more plausible than yours, given those facts. I didn't disregard any part of a "prophecy" you mentioned, it's just that there is nothing stated in the book of Revelation that cannot be better explained when taken in the context of the theory I presented above. Your interpretation requires a HUGE stretch of imagination to believe that anything written in Revelation has any relevance beyond the audience and events of that time.
Thus endeth the lesson [;)]
Bullshit, Brainia. Your facts about Rome and Nero are sufficient to form a theory around, and it's a theory that has been embraced by many within some branches of the faith, but it ignores, as you have continued to do, every bit of the prophecy that doesn't fit. That amounts to most of the book. I addressed this before you ever chimed in, and you just keep pretending it isn't there.
I understand the desire of many Christians to just make all this dark stuff go away, but don't you fucking DARE try to call it a "fact" and dismiss the opinions of millions of others who don't embrace the new, improved doctrine.
Please though, unless you'll find it easier to just admit you fucking lied about what you ignored, and spouted bullshit you heard in whatever Laodicean church you find your answers in, explain to me how the mark of the beast was applied under Nero, and how none could buy or sell without it? Who were the vocal critics that the whole world saw die, and what methodology made that possible? Geology is a hobby of mine, and while I know about the hypothesis of an astronomical impact about 10,000 years ago, into the icepack, I've completely missed anything wiping out 1/3 of the planet's population in the last 1,900. Got anything on that?
The Horsemen are off the table, so no distractions. War, disease, famine and disaster are constants. Go for the biggies. (Though a case would be made from the other side that modern communications make us aware of them in ways undreamed of by previous generations.)
Have you ever even tried reading Revelation for yourself? Get a King Jimmy translation, read it like poetry. That's some fun, scary shit in there. Much better than the Omen.
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