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Lucylastic -> RE: News from the Society for the Perpetually Offended (4/10/2015 5:18:54 PM)
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Perpetually offended conspiracy /religious theorists on the eclipse and Obamas "iran deal"
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.”
It’s worth emphasizing that this isn’t intended as satire. I should also note, once again, that both Blitz and the publishers of WorldNetDaily are welcome to believe whatever they wish about natural, predictable astronomical phenomena. Their interpretations of eclipses are their business, whether those beliefs seem amusing or not.
But there is a broader political significance to stuff like this.
Sure, it’s easy to scoff at foolish stories from strange far-right websites, but WorldNetDaily, despite being on the fringe and publishing odd arguments about eclipses, has been treated as a legitimate outlet by Republican members of Congress.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a prominent presidential candidate, has explored WND conspiracy theories during congressional hearings, and even done interviews with the website as if it were a credible news organization.
As we discussed last summer, it’s entirely possible that there were liberal conspiracy websites that blamed George W. Bush for eclipses and questioned the Republican president’s birth certificate during his White House tenure. But how many Democratic members of Congress – and/or Democratic presidential candidates – chose to associate themselves with such outlets?
Oh and another pastor who preaches
God Wants Men to Rule Women, but They Can’t Without Being Sued
http://latest.com/2015/04/florida-pastor-god-wants-men-to-rule-women-but-they-cant-without-being-sued/
A Florida pastor made it clear during a March 29 sermon that men are destined to lead women, but they are unable to properly do it out of fear of legal action.
Outside of the church, Pastor Bill Lytell posted a sign that read “male leadership.” When asked about it, he justified his decision, saying that “this is a man’s world.”
In addition, a 9-year-old boy found a gun in the church’s bathroom in March. A local media outlet covered the story and also highlighted the problems with the “male leadership” sign.
“And that’s going to go out throughout the whole country. Do you know what we’d have had to pay to do something like that?” he remarked. “That was probably a hundred thousand dollar gift. I’m not going to thank the person that left the weapon, however.”
“Don’t you be ashamed you go to a church with male leadership,” Lytell said. “Every church that’s right with God oughta have a sign: ‘Male Leadership.’ Because that’s the only kind of leadership, both from Adam all the way to the last part of the Bible. It’s all been male. This is a man’s world!”
He suggested that men couldn’t truly lead because they feared being sued for their actions.
“And all the men said, ‘Amen!’” he continued. “There aren’t many places were men can ever rejoice anymore without feeling about half-ashamed because they try to put you down or sue you or something, but brother this is a man’s world. You can say what you want, you can do what you want, but God made Adam in leadership and it’s going to end with a man in leadership. It doesn’t make men better, it is just God’s way.”
with video....
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