Yep, eclipses are signs from the almighty! Totally predictable by science signs!
That happen at regular intervals, fixed entirely by the orbital motions of the Earth and moon, utterly regardless of what humans are doing on the planet. And have been going on since the moon existed, which is well before the development of humanity.
The lord really does work in stupidly mysterious ways, doesn’t he?
The next solar eclipse in the lower 48 is in 2044. Does this then mean science predicts that America will erupt into general hedonism and debauchery that year?
Says the adulteress. Fuck off.
Yeah, I don’t get how this works over and over again. It’s almost always shit people who just blatantly make a mockery of their Christian “beliefs” that these dopes put up on Christian pedestal. By all accounts, Obama was a good Christian. One wife, no real accusations of infidelity, regular church goer, at least outwardly a nice and modest man. . .and these dopes labelled him a secret Muslims trying to take down the government from within.
I just can’t make any sense of it.
Facts are secondary to social belonging and other emotional needs.
In-group dislikes Obama? The flimsiest justification will be held on to.
Facts are not going to be very effective against someone operating in that mode.
Though I did read that while changing group membership or finding another group with different beliefs can be big factors in changing people’s minds, so can horrible trauma.
Like if a Republican fell out of a 3rd story window and was stuck overnight alone in agony on the cold ground, when they recovered they might have had the realization that treating other people like shit is no way to live.
Repent for what? Allowing conservatives to hold government positions?
Ah yes, the Saros cycle (known as far back as before the time of Jesus), predictably causing eclipses like clockwork, is a ‘sign.’
Also apparently a sign from God to repent:
- Leaves falling from trees
- Flowers blooming
- Things getting colder
- Things getting warmer
- Days getting longer or shorter
- The sun rising
- Birds chirping
- Stars
- Water
- Needing to poop
- Clocks
You joke but go a few days without pooping and you’ll come to Jesus pretty quickly.
And yet if I don’t need to poop, clearly God isn’t sending the sign of needing to poop.
If we suddenly stopped having eclipses, we’d also likely have pretty serious problems on our hands.
But per Marjorie, if cyclical events are signs from God to repent, the absence of those events must either be signs from others or else a “you’re all good with repentance.”
So you might be constipated, but sinless.
So you can shit a stone and then throw it.
Yeah the Bible belt has been endlessly shit on by tornados because they’re just not evangelical enough…
