Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2015, 06:50 PM Apr 2015

Don’t blame eclipses on President Obama

One year ago this week, a far-right website popular with some conservatives called WorldNetDaily published an unexpected piece about a lunar eclipse. A right-wing pastor named Mark Biltz told WND that the recently witnessed blood moon – in which Earth’s shadow completely covers the moon – is actually a divine warning against President Obama’s executive actions.

A year later, just in time for another lunar eclipse, WorldNetDaily is back, as is Mark Biltz, and this year, there’s a whole new explanation.
Biltz, reliably, tied the [blood moon] to the nuclear deal with Iran, telling WND that the eclipse was a message from God likening President Obama to the biblical figure Haman, who plotted to kill all the Jews in Persia:
The pastor insisted that developments intended to curtail Iran’s nuclear programs are “totally tied to these Blood Moons.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/dont-blame-eclipses-president-obama?cid=sm_fb_maddow

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Magical thinking from actual adults.... with zero inkling about our solar system, the moon, and reality. Fear mongering.

Religion is ridiculous.

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Don’t blame eclipses on President Obama (Original Post) AlbertCat Apr 2015 OP

I can understand how this worked so well thousands of years ago, Curmudgeoness Apr 2015 #1

Indeed. bvf Apr 2015 #2

Bump for Sophisticated Theology! onager Apr 2015 #3

Love it! AlbertCat Apr 2015 #4

So now ominous events portend that we've angered the psychotic sky-daddy? deucemagnet Apr 2015 #5

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

1. I can understand how this worked so well thousands of years ago,

Reply to AlbertCat (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 07:15 PM

Apr 2015

but to think that one person today would fall for this is scary. I am terrified that people who have access to the facts would believe something as ridiculous as this.

Next, virgins will be sacrificed to the volcanoes.

bvf

(6,604 posts)

2. Indeed.

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 09:12 PM

Apr 2015

There are still cave people living among us.

onager

(9,356 posts)

3. Bump for Sophisticated Theology!

Reply to AlbertCat (Original post)

Sat Apr 11, 2015, 09:23 AM

Apr 2015

This reminds me of H.L. Mencken's theory about how religion got started. From memory:

Once, when our ancestors lived in caves, great rains came. Our ancestors moved to higher and higher ground, but the rain kept falling.

They moved onto the peak of the very highest mountain they could reach. Still the rain came until it lapped at their ankles.

Finally one man screamed: "The rain must stop!"

Purely out of coincidence, the rain did stop. And that man became the first priest.

ETA - you're seeing many ETAs from me today. This is due to problems with my device. And my brain. Mostly the latter.