Apocalypse soon- hastening the "end times"

'End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon
'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.


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.

Linking these efforts is a belief that modern technologies and global communications have made it possible to induce completion of God's plan within this generation.



More (unfortunately): http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-endtimes22jun22,0,7902314.story?coll=la-home-headlines

God save us from these nuts trying to make Him do their bidding...

:hi:

....all :patriot:"End Time" and :patriot:"Apocalypse" believers to do all the fighting and all the dying.:applause: Those "End Time" believers will disappear quicker than we can blink our eyes. :rofl:

too much religion can make you stupid

I mean, what if all of these wondrously faithful believers (by that I mean CRAZY FUCK HEADS) manage to bring about a great destruction that kills all living beings on Earth in order to bring about the end times or Armageddon and it's too early. The messiah just isn't ready. Then, if/when the messiah does return, everyone is already dead and gone. Wouldn't that be a big buzz kill for that particular messiah? Kind of like showing up for a party and finding out it was yesterday and everyone is already gone. Just thinking out loud. :think:

The Messiah is still deciding what to wear and how to comb his hair?

whenever we find them, and ask them if god is that weak that they can force his hand.

Really, the arrogance of these people is astonishing.

I think the Left Behind series probably brought quite a few believers around to believing in (and hoping for) the End Times.

Destroying the environment, waging anachronistic religious-tribal wars, and fantasizing about supernatural beings returning, welcome to Hell on Earth.

to themselves and others. :crazy: