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recovering democrat Donating Member (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:37 PM
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Drudge headline: Biblical Disaster
Actually, I was sort of waiting for this to start. This is the headline topic for Drudge this evening. Links to a general news article about the major disaster activity in Asia. The title comes only from a tiny quote in the article:

Michael Dobbs, a reporter for The Washington Post, was swimming around a tiny island off a Sri Lankan beach at about 9:15 a.m. when his brother called out that something strange was happening with the sea.

Then, within minutes, "the beach and the area behind it had become an inland sea, rushing over the road and pouring into the flimsy houses on the other side. The speed with which it all happened seemed like a scene from the Bible - a natural phenomenon unlike anything I had experienced before," he wrote on the Post's Web site.

Fascinating how everything now becomes a religious issue! Kinda scary.

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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:38 PM
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1. Mother Nature can't do these things!
Only Jesus can!

:crazy:
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Flammable Materials Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:39 PM
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2. New anti-fundie epithet for 2005:
GET RAPTURED!

:evilgrin:
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chicagojoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:47 PM
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7. Gonna run with that!
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sonicx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:49 PM
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9. Got Rapture?
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:40 PM
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3. Bible Headline: Matt PUDGE *Is* a Disaster n/t
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:41 PM
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4. Wake me up if the Red Sea parts
or Bush repents of his sins. That would be a "Biblical" miracle!
:beer: :beer: :beer:
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:42 PM
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5. Hell, Shrub just ADMITTING he's made mistakes
Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 11:53 PM by Clark2008
would be a Biblical miracle!
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Gardeaux08 Donating Member (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:44 PM
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6. Of course!
This happened in a part of the world where most people aren't Christians. The next thing that's going to happen is we're going to hear they had it coming because they reject Christ.
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sonicx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:48 PM
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8. I thought Gawd was suppose to punish canada for letting the hedoists...
get married?
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recovering democrat Donating Member (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:57 PM
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10. freeper version
If you can stand it, check out the freeper version about this guy's article. One poster even listed the applicable Bible verses!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308828/posts


I just can't resist checking them out every now and then, especially when they are figuring out what they should think about something that has happened in the world.
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 01:47 AM
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14. What would these fruitloops have posted
if they were alive and owned computers during the Ice Age? They would somehow find ways to connect it to the Bible. I've heard them relate Clinton's blow job to the Bible. When their car breaks down, they manage to find something in the Bible that's related.
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 12:04 AM
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11. The title is really being borrowed from The Sun newspaper in UK. n/t
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 12:18 AM
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12. If it were really a Biblical disaster akin to Noah's flood
Sri Lanka would look like the Grand Canyon, according to Xian fundie logic.

Still, I have to take this one as a matter of common speech usage. Besides, those massive Biblical disasters all happened in the Tanakh, or "Old Testament". The Tanakh isn't "old" for Jews, since they don't believe Jesus was the Messiah so his teachings didn't supercede their people's history.
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bhikkhu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 01:30 AM
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13. Don't recall a tsunami in my bible, nor a hurricane, wildfire, etc.
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