As Christians await the Rapture

[Pharaoh]

A very similar scenario is going on in Iran..........

In November, Iranian president Ahmed Ahmadinejad startled the world when he announced that felt 'the hand of Allah' entrancing world leaders as he delivered a speech to the UN General Assembly last September.


According to Ahmadinejad, during his UN address, he suddenly felt himself surrounded by light. It wasn't the stage lighting, he said -- it was light from heaven. Ahmadinejad related his otherworldly experience in a videotaped meeting with a prominent ayatollah in Tehran


Ahmadinejad's "vision" at the UN could be dismissed as political posturing if it weren't for a string of similar statements and actions that suggest he believes he is destined to bring about the "End Times" -- the end of the world -- by paving the way for the return of the Shia Muslim messiah.

In a November 16 speech in Tehran to senior clerics who had come from all over Iran to hear him, the new President said the main mission of his Government was to "pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance)".

The mystical 12th Imam of Shia Islam disappeared as a child in 941AD, and Shia Muslims have awaited his reappearance ever since, believing that when he returns, he will reign on earth for seven years, before bringing about the Last Judgment and the end of the world.

In order to prepare for the Mahdi, Ahmadinejad said, "Iran should turn into a mighty, advanced, and model Islamic society". Iranians should "refrain from leaning toward any Western school of thought" and abstain from "luxurious lives" and other excesses.

Scared yet? It gets worse. Ahmadinejad is rumored to have ordered his cabinet to sign a loyalty pact with the 12th Imam and throw it down a well near the holy city of Qom, (where they believe the imam is hiding).

In a December article called "Waiting for the Rapture in Iran," the Christian Science Monitor's Scott Peterson wrote that Ahmadinejad has earmarked $17 million for the Jamkaran mosque, supposedly built on the Mahdi's orders.

"Officials deny rumors," Peterson said, that when Ahmadinejad was mayor of Tehran, he "secretly tasked the city council... to prepare

http://www.omegaletter.com/articles.asp?ArticleID=5832

[sui generis]

1. god/allah please save us

from your followers

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. On BBC radio I heard an interesting analysis of this man

The Iranian expert call him an opportunist who uses religion no differently than Bush. When he needs to, he appears pius and religious, and when duty calls, he makes decisions totally not supported by te Koran, but necessary to maintain his power.

It is no surprise that he, Sharon and Bush were all in power at the same time - they were triples, whores of convenience, liars and professional dissemblers.
It is also no surprise that many Iranians are viewing him (secretly) with the same disdain and mistrust that Israelis viewed Sharon and that the whole world views Bush.

[savemefromdumbya]

4. you wonder where they get these loonies from?

[rurallib]

3. Rapture index at 159 - fasten your seatbelts!

http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html

There are so many people in the world who want to blow it up just to prove they were right. Seems kind of - ?self defeating?

[Pharaoh]

7. Rapture ready!!

strange!

[Dr. Jones]

9. rapture ready?

enter at your own risk! I've seen that website and they're a bunch of immature irrational weirdos. When I went there to check it out once they were talking about how if you DARE to disagee with Bush, you get "warnings" from the dictatorial Admins who make crap up just to get you kicked off. They run that board almost as dictator-like as Bush runs this country, if that were possible.

[rurallib]

11. I didn't even know they took comments

I just go to see when blast off is scheduled for.

[Dr. Jones]

13. I would not be in the least bit surprised

if the God Warrior lady secretly runs that damn board. I'm quite sure she's at least an active participant. That's the type you run into over there on RR - it's like a thousand llittle God-Warrior wackos.

[rustydog]

5. Seen this bumpersticker? "When the Rapture comes...

Can I have your I-Pod?"
:smoke:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

6. The lil' Imam dude is hidin' down a well.

Okay.

Yeah, I'd say between these guys and the Rapturists . . . we're fucked.

[Pharaoh]

8. You think osama

is hiding down there with him?

Maybe they're havin a party with all those virgins they're always talking about.:beer:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

10. Remember this rapture

stuff is unique to evangelicals and fundamentalists and didn't really get "invented" until the 1800's. I spent a lifetime going to chuch and never heard of it and still haven't heard about it in church.

But I did used to use a cologne called Rapture.

What distresses me about the Rapture is that we'll all be naked. Maybe it's just a big joke for God and Jesus or something.

Anyway, these guys are loons.

[Hardrada]

12. I'd better work on a flatter tummy then. Jeeze!

Well, women are supposed to appreciate us for our sense of humor anyway.