Utah is only one state over, so when I see a website that tells me a fragment of a comet will hit it on March 1 of this year, I sit up and take notice.
Then I see the flashing text. The multiple colors. The GIANT FONT. The URL: satansrapture.com. Well, still. It can’t be all wrong can it? And then I see the title: "BIBLE CODE PREDICTIONS 2010".
Oh. I guess it can be all wrong.
OK, Utah, you can rest easy. I’m guessing March 1 will come and go with no comet impact, fragment or otherwise. The Bible code is a long debunked piece of antiscience garbage, basically just people looking at random patterns until they find one that kinda sorta if you squint your eyes and plug up your ears and yell LALALALALALA looks like it might say something sorta correct.
Maybe.
Anyway, I wouldn’t normally link to such low-level and obvious nonsense, but no matter how silly a doomsday claim is, there will always be people out there who take it seriously. So just in case, here you go: there are no scientific predictions that a comet piece will hit Utah, and the Bible Code is total 100% fictitious nonsense.
Unless… hmmm. The Earth is hit by about 100 tons of cosmic debris every night. A lot of that is from comets, small (and I mean small) bits of fluff shed off of previous comet passes. And if you live in Utah and go out March 1, you’re sure to see at least one or two shooting stars…
So maybe that website is right!
Or not. I’m guessing not.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I see this sort of thing as wishful thinking by the Bible thumpers and not so much anti-science. Which, I guess, makes it even more disturbing.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I like to think that everyday that passes, another doomsday prediction is proven wrong.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Great quote from this page:
“About two hours after seeing FOXnews and NBC about the massive earthquake that struck Haiti, I went to the Bible Code, “knowing” this terrrible event was encoded and sure enough it was.
True, I found this code after-the-fact but this doesn’t matter in terms of preventing this earthquake….”
February 9th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Grk. I stumbled painfully over your use of the phrase “random patterns”.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Do they have falling stars on Mars?
Speaking of things coming in from outer space. Watched a documentary about the roves on Mars. In one of the scenes it showed some computer animation of a rover with the night sky in the background and a meteoroid streaking across the sky.
Now, there isn’t all that much atmosphere – or so I have been told – on Mars. Would they still light up when entering the atmosphere?
So again: Do they have falling stars on Mars?
February 9th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
OH GOD! Thanks, Phil, my eyes having been officially burned out of my head after viewing that site! It’s a proven fact that HUGE BOLD LETTERS always SPEAK THE TRUTH.
I think it’s funny though that for some reason the cartoon version of Gollum popped into my head when reading the lines like:
DAYTIME – DAYLIGHT- IN THE MORNING
HOLOCAUST – CATASTROPHE- ANNIHILATION
SOUTH – PATH – TRAJECTORY – SOUTH
PREVENTION – PREVENTABLE – STOPPED
It’s like a riddle? But … not!
I’ll go wash my eyes out with a homeopathic bleach/water solution.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
But it’s not even 2012 yet! Or would this be construed as saving the planet from the Evil Mormons, as Capital Dan alluded to.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I’ll never understand this type of prediction. I’m thinking if I heard of some event and thought I could see it predicted in some book, first I would be jumping for joy at the potential gold mine I just found. Then, on my own, I would try to find some future events I could predict. I’d write them down and see if they happen. When they don’t, I’d realize the idea was bunk, be disappointed, and move on. So what makes people post crap like Utah will be hit my an asteroid on March 1? Do they really think they are right and all those other times something didn’t happen, it really did but it was all covered up? Do they know they are full of crap and think they are doing good by scaring people? When combined with a tendency to not trust the experts, I can mostly understand where anti-vaxers and moon landing skeptics are coming from. They are wrong, but at least I can see why some people cling to those beliefs. This one, I just don’t get it.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Unfortunately, many people cannot distinguish crap like this from science. There are thousands of instances of inanity that seem reasonable to many folk because they don’t understand science or the scientific method.
The bad news is that they structure their lives around these superstitions.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
I thought all these sites were destroyed in the Geocities Apocalypse of Oct 26th 2009! It was predicted by some Bible Code, which I’m sure you’ll find if you go back and look really super Jesusy hard!.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
oh no the best part is more towards the bottom, where Hilary Clinton becomes President and then accepts the antichrist! Egads!
But I don’t know why you all don’t believe him after all:
“MOST ACCURATE BIBLE CODE: 2009: KRIS ALLEN – IDOL- WINNER:
ADAM LAMBERT – IDOL – LOSS: I found this Bible Code 12 hours before
The “American Idol” result show was aired on FOX TV. ”
Good to know American Idol fulfilled prophecy.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
“It is also possible that on 01 MARCH 2010, a Comet will be visible/sighted that is on a collision course with Earth and would hit UTAH, USA. Time will tell.”
Can anyone say “Cover your ass”?
Yeah, time will tell us that you’re wrong.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Phil, I am glad you shared the trivia about 100 tons of cosmic debris every day. I love finding out real things that I would not have thought were possible. 100 tons. That’s a big pile of stuff – well it would have been before it burned up in the atmosphere.
What’s the weight of stuff that actually hits the ground daily?
February 9th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
“An astronomer wrote to us and said its possible a comet could fragment and a large chunk could hit earth (Utah).”
“An astronomer” could contact me and tell me I COULD be made of Swiss cheese. Wouldn’t make it true.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
#9 Denise: LOL, you can’t make that stuff up…..er…..wait.
“An amateur bible code researcher, using a questionable internet Bible Code site…”
I had no idea that these sites were rated.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
If you stare at that website, without blinking, for 5 minutes, then look at a blank wall, you will see a message, in inverted colors that says,
“I WASTED 5 MINUTES
OF MY LIFE READING A
STUPID WEBSITE!”
Try it! I swear it works!
February 9th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
I especially like this part:
“2) NASA has developed “Deep Impact” technology that could shatter or re-direct an incoming Comet with a satellite collision, and this satellite- interceptor could be armed with a nuclear warhead.”
So, um, is he saying this is stuff we already have and can use to save Utah, if NASA would only look in the right place?
February 9th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
@Sara: Just because something burns up, that doesn’t mean it is gone–it’s just more spread out! (OK, a *minute* amount is gone.) All of it probably makes it down eventually, so I would guess 100 tons actually hit the ground daily, though each bit might have spent a long time (months?) floating around in the air first.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Oh man… thanks for getting my hopes up. I live in UT and would love a first hand view of a cometary fragment impact. How cool would that home video be? And this one wouldn’t be doctored
Oh well, guess I’ll mass yet another boring March 01.
February 9th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
I seem to remember reading that using the same techniques the Kennedy assassination is predicted in Moby Dick.
Edit. In fact it’s stated in the linked skepdic.com article
February 9th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
One of the other grad students here at Arizona got a message last week about this:
“hello,
I represent a Bible Code researcher named HARRY WALTHER. He has found a Bible Code that warns of COMET IMPACT- MARCH 01, 2010 – UTAH. Please read the following page and search for any comet that could impact Utah on March 01, 2010.
Thank you.”
With links to the Bible Code site and the Satan’s Rapture site following. His response was:
“Roger that, I’ll get on it right away. I’ll have my contact in NASA divert the Hubble Telescope to search for any such impactor.
Good luck and God speed,
-D”
It really made my day.
February 9th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Oh, and I replied to D with “Tell him to search the code for HARRY WALTHER GIANT ASSHAT and BENADAM WANKER LACKEY” (Benadam is the name of the guy sending the original email.)
February 9th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Uh ohhh, it mentioned the Bible, so it must be stupid!!!!!!!
February 9th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Tiny, you’re missing the point of the stupidity of the Bible Code. Start at ~3:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyqQyAcISu4&feature=PlayList&p=479334B6E1771461&index=2
February 9th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Why is it that their omnipotent and omniscient god is always so vague??? I also live in Utah, and like Adam I’d love to see this comet impact!!! Thanks for narrowing it down to a 84,904 square mile area, but not giving us the exact location of the impact. Who really falls for this garbage???
February 9th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
On a related note, I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said:
“WARNING. In case of rapture, vehicle will be unmanned.”
February 9th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
What, the Bible code isn’t legit? Oh no, my whole life’s savings!!!
February 9th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Hey, it has to be legit! It predicted the American Idol winner, Kris Allen. I am now going to go to my Bible Code Program and see what Phil’s sooper sekrit project is!
February 9th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I wonder how long after March 2nd that site and everything to do with it will disappear. Like the May 5th 2000 planetary alignment or that asteroid in 2007.
Funny how fast these prophesies disappear under the woodwork after they don’t happen.
And didn’t Jesus say in the Sermon on the Mount that there will be people here who will not experience death until I return? So where are all the 2000 year old people today????
February 9th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
I’ll have you know I turned 2000 yesterday. I don’t recall getting that many presents. Please start srnding them ASAP.
Pete
February 9th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Why is it that every psychopath with a mission of saving the earth / informing us of global conspiracies / announcing himself as being the one true follower of jesus / or divulging UFO occupant’s real purpose can only use a yards long, monolithic, single page website?
Seriously, wouldn’t the illuminati / aliens / government conspirators be better foiled with web 2.0? Can’t the bible code include a crib sheet for creating a concise web site that doesn’t make the fortune teller look like every other online savior of mankind that happens to be off his meds?
Oh now that I go and look, the bible code does include the following message;
Hey you. Doofus.
Yes you reading this.
You code like a Putz.
Learn more HTML besides < blink >
Poor coding will cause the end of the world.
February 9th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Aww, shucks! And I was looking for something that would finally get me out of this stinkin’ place. A cometary impact would have done that nicely without any of those pesky lease-breaking strings attached.
*sigh* Guess I’ll have to worry about getting my driver’s license renewed after all…
February 9th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
I can’t load the website. I think Phil’s logic killed it.
February 9th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Seen on a fridge at ArcoSanti in Arizona: “In case of Rapture, this BAR will be unmanned”
Keep in mind, those of us who are Christians of the more traditional stripe find Bible Codes freaks akin to 9/11-truthers. But polls show that most ‘christians’ don’t know a quote from Thomas Jefferson vs. Jesus.
February 9th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Well, if the Mormon church keeps pumping tens of millions of dollars into California state political campaigns, I think a comet strike or two on Utah might be a good thing.
Hey, God, try these coordinates: 40 46 12.5688, -111 53 30.9546
February 9th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
@13 Sara & everyone else too
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“The silt in a house’s eaves probably contains a minute amount of interplanetary material.”
- Page 70, ‘The Universe and Beyond’, Terence Dickinson, Camden House, 1992.
“Meteors plunge the Jovian atmosphere at a rate that makes Earth’s 400 tons per day look paltry, and in the course of its long tenure Jupiter has ingested millions of comets.”
- Page 186, Ferris, ‘Seeing in the Dark’, Simon & Schuster, 2002.
“A few years ago I was walking along Charing Cross Road in Central London when I came across a man who was wearing sandwich boards. Normally I would’ve paid little attention to him and I assumed he must have been protesting about something quite mundane but in fact his message was much more dramatic :
“Sinners Repent! The hour of doom is at hand!”
I was tempted to question him but at that moment he stepped off the kerb and was smartly knocked down by a passing cyclist.
Rising to his feet he drew a deep breath and unleashed a volley of wild invective.”
- Page 1, intro., “Countdown – Or how Nigh is the End?”, Patrick Moore, Pan Books, 1999.
February 9th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Couple of true stories which folks may or may not have seen before:
There’s a well-known (true) tale of the man who wanted to ascertain God’s will for his life, so he decided to open his NT at random and apply whatever verse appeared.
The passage selected read, “The Lord rebuke you!” (Jude 1:9)
Shaken, he decided to start over.
This time it read: “Then he went away and hanged himself.” (Matthew 27:5).
And trying once more, he got, “Now go and do the same!” (Luke 10:37)
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In 1994, while working part-time in a bookstore, a customer asked me [this blogger] to special order a copy of a particular book. I looked it up and then told her that we couldn’t get it for her because it was out of print.
“When did it go out of print?”
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“That’s a shame. It’s a great book.”
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‘88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.’
Source: http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/05/tf-meta-nhvc.html
That slacktivist site has been debunking the woeful Left Behind books for ages & is well worth a read IMHO.
It’s author, an incisive, patient intelligent and funny bloke named Fred Clark, writes a lot there about the idea of the “Rapture” referred to by the bumper sticker noted by (26.) Caleb Jones and the negative consequences and the fundamentally nasty sort of “God” who would cause such a catastrophe as well as how silly and unrealistic such nonsense is.
February 9th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
@29. Strahlungsamt
Search no more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brooks
February 9th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Wow, this website takes me back like, 10 years, when Geocities ruled between amateur web designers. They just need a couple of GIFs and a little hit counter and it’ll be perfect!
February 9th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
I’ve found that website before. It’s hilarious and not just because it uses 1.0 code from 1994. None of it makes sense; none of the ideas relate to each other in any cohesive pattern. Then it claims “you have a brain, use it!”. It’s clearly schizophrenic. It’s hard to imagine anyone seeing the site and believing any of it whatsoever. One, um, clue, is that everything is about “satan”, clearly the diety who impresses the author most.
I’ve long thought that bible coding was a last grasp. People know the books of the old testament contradict each other and have no cohesiveness as a whole but they want so badly for it to be some sort of instruction manual that they jump to the conclusion that the real meaning must be hidden.
But first, any code-claimer has to resolve this: If the authors of these books had something great to say, why did they hide it from everybody but you, for you to discover thousands of years later?
“I can feel it in my bones -
Schizophrenia is taking me home”
-Sonic Youth
February 9th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
It is possible to find the words “hail Satan” in this sentence.
February 9th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
@41. Sean
Hey, I found them! Did I win a pickle?
@6. Lewis
Actually, those sound like goth rock lyrics
February 9th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Sweet!!! I’ll be partying downtown on top of the Channel 2/Wells Fargo building waiting for that supposed comet to hit!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!
February 9th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
I would like everyone who visits that site to save a copy of it to their computers (scan it with antivirus first to be sure it’s safe though). That way when March 1 passes without a cometary fragment impact, we all have copies of the page so the owner of that site can’t just delete it and say, “What prediction? I never posted any predictions about a comet!”
It’s interesting also that this guy has no clue about modern politics. Obama assassinated and Hillary becomes President? She’s like 4th in line. Biden, Pelosi and Byrd all have to die too for her to become President. But the bible mysteriously doesn’t say anything about them.
February 9th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
I couldn’t edit my previous comment, so here’s what I added:
Oops, seems like my previous comment got edited after all.. -_-;
February 9th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Did anyone else see the one “matrix” that says “Obama…infected…dead” and then a matrix for later “Wall Street…collapse…panic…Under Obama.”
So in other words, Obama is going to be infected and killed early in the year and then Zombie-Obama (who is still president) is going to preside over another collapse
February 9th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
@ AbuMaia
Like virtually everything else, Google’s got you covered (http://www.googleguide.com/cached_pages.html)
Remember (one of ) the golden rule(s) of the internet: NOTHING GETS DELETED.
February 9th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
[...] Utah to be destroyed by a comet on March 1st? – Well, that’s if you believe this site here, which bases this conclusion off of The [...]
February 9th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Thinking selective quote-mining and distorting meaning by leaving things out as seen on another BA blog post not too long ago; I just can’t resist doing this low act to poor ole AbuMaia:
43. AbuMaia Says:
Obama assassinated and Hillary becomes President … Biden, Pelosi and Byrd all have to die too … the bible mysteriously doesn’t say anything about them.
Sorry, just tooo easy!
Anyhow, I’m sure the crazies will claim the same assassination event that takes out Obama could get Biden, Pelosi, etc ..at the same time.
Sadly, predicting an assassination attempt – at very least – against Obama is all too predictable and likely. Just as inevitable as saying “earthquakes & wars will happen” really. Because they always have & always will happen.
I would like everyone who visits that site to save a copy of it to their computers (scan it with antivirus first to be sure it’s safe though). That way when March 1 passes without a cometary fragment impact, we all have copies of the page so the owner of that site can’t just delete it and say, “What prediction? I never posted any predictions about a comet!”
Good idea – there are other sites such a “revisionism-beating” policy would be handy for too.
Is there a database archive of failed predictions in their original lunatic forms website somewhere? Would be a good idea to establish one if it doesn’t exist already – that way all such crazy predictions can lose “deniabilty” & only one place has to sully itself with preserving them for posterity.
Mind you, the information that this whackjob has made such a ridiculous prediction is already on record here & no doubt elsewhere too.
February 9th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Did anyone think it was funny that the site mentioned “deep impact” technology developed by NASA to blow up comets, which also happens to be the plot of the movie “Deep Impact”? I think someone’s been watching too many disaster movies.
February 10th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Pi-needles, that’s an awesome idea, The Failed Prophecies Site. Too bad that if you make a copy of their pages and post them in their full crazy glory on another site, they could claim plagiarism or something and try to get it shut down. Are there any possible legal safeguards for a project like this? I might actually try to make it happen.
Meh, probably not. A simple search for “failed prophecies” returns many such sites, though many of them seem to be focused on one group or another.
February 10th, 2010 at 6:45 am
I think that page will live in perpetuity on Google servers. In triplicate!
As some have pointed out, the majority of people that see these sites may see them for what they are or may see them as accurate but take no action on the information. It’s that small group of people that may use this situation to further some tragic cause. Anyone remember the “Saturn-Like Object” seen near Comet Hale-Bopp that led to the 39 deaths associated with the Heaven’s Gate cult? Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29
February 10th, 2010 at 6:56 am
AbuMaia: Well there’s http://alma-geddon.com/ and http://www.abhota.info/
Both sites are sadly slightly out of date, though.
February 10th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Technically, the prediction is almost certainly correct. Conceptually, it’s so far off the mark it isn’t even wrong.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Phill right the Bible code is nonsense it is just the latest in a long line of claims of “hiden mesages” in the Bible. the list of these claims is endless and the methoid is flawed one problem is witch version of the Bible did they use this code on? The King James version is diferent then the Catholic version I use in wording and in books and parts of books witch are in the Catholic version and not in the KJV version dose this code work on all versions dose it say the same things if used on all versions? I’ll bet it dose’nt
February 10th, 2010 at 11:35 am
@Mike: supposedly the Bible code isn’t based on any of the translations, but on the “original” Hebrew texts. From what I understand, they look at the Bible texts in Hebrew, and do a kind of “word search” game on it to find what they’re looking for, then translate it back into English.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Some physicists posit there are 10 to the 528th parallel universes co-existing next to ours in ‘branes’. This means that almost all possibilities you can think of have a probability equal to approx. ‘one”.
Therefore the alternate Utah in one of those branes, will be hit on March 1st. In another it will be February 28th, in yet another it will be March 2nd and so on, in fact there will be millons or billions of Utah’s hit that day in millions and billions of branes. Somewhere I feel a stirring in the force.
February 10th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
#56 @AbuMania
I don’t know Hebrew, but I understand it was often written without puntuation (and vowels ?).
This might make such codes easier to create … I mean find
I resisted the link the first time I read this article, but I fell for it today.
My brain didn’t come as close to exploding as on some of the antivax sites, but … WTF ?
February 10th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Dang. I’m sick of this state. I was hoping for a spiffy reason to pack my bags and leave this place. Once again, Phil, you leave me with no nifty doomsday events to look forward to.
Death by comet/asteroid/etc would be so cool.
February 10th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
@55. mike burkhart Says:
Phill right the Bible code is nonsense it is just the latest in a long line of claims of “hiden mesages” in the Bible. the list of these claims is endless and the methoid is flawed one problem is witch version of the Bible did they use this code on
There’s a witches version of the Bible?! Neat!
Sorry but can’t resist pointing that typo out.
@ 53. EnglerP: THX. I hadn’t seen those before.
@ 56. AbuMaia Says:
@Mike: supposedly the Bible code isn’t based on any of the translations, but on the “original” Hebrew texts.
I thought Jesus spoke Aramaic? (& possibly Hebrew & Greek or Latin too?)
I guess that means the “Bible” code is really just a “Torah (OT) Code?”
Either way both Torah & “the” Bible include versions of old Sumerian-Babylonian & Canaanite legends and fuse them with a mish-mash of early Jewish mythology and then later messianic Christianity so to think “one mind” put the thing together complete with a comprehensive set of secret codes is .. well more silly than I’m allowed to say here.
February 11th, 2010 at 6:21 am
Jon Brooks: Some physicists posit there are 10 to the 528th parallel universes co-existing next to ours in ‘branes’. This means that almost all possibilities you can think of have a probability equal to approx. ‘one”.
Not really. It’s trivial to come up with easily-realizable scenarios that have probabilities far lower than 1 in 10^528.
For example, when Parker Brothers sold their 70th anniversary Monopoly set, they claimed to have sold 750 million copies of that game. Let’s say that everybody who bought a set rolled the dice once. What are the odds that every single die showed a six?
Roughly one in 10^1,167,000,000.
If my figures are way off and only half the people who bought a game ever rolled the dice ever played, that’s okay; double-six lets you roll again, so we can assume each player rolled the dice twice.
Of course, the tricky thing is that any dice roll of that magnitude has the same odds. But it ought to show the ridiculousness of thinking that if enough potential for trials exists, every single possibility — no matter how far-fetched — must come to pass.
(Of course, this kind of logic might cause Intelligent Design advocates to think that die rolls are designed… which, come to think of it, might explain why I never get Boardwalk. All this time, I’ve been playing with cheaters.
)
February 14th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Walther is a publicity hog… and the Bible code is very iffy at best. I am a believer in Christ and this guy just twists everything up so don’t look to him for anything much except confusion. He presents some solid truths but they are mixed with a great deal of error. Also, he often does not rightly divide the Word of Truth (the KJB Scriptures)to exegete the Scriptures properly. For example, he uses the true Word (KJB) when it suits him, but diverts to tainted Bible versions that say something else…. again, when it suits his doctrines. Case in point, the Word rightly says in Rev. 13:16 that the final mark is placed IN the right hand or forehead, denoting an implant. Walther uses a Bible version that says ‘on’ the right hand or forehead to justify his ramblings about a tattoo material being mixed with an RFID chip. Too much speculation. So he quotes from whatever Bible version matches his predictions and opinions, but has no Biblically sound theological system. And he calls Sherry Shriner nuts? He is too reliant on the alleged ‘Bible Code’ and exhibits a lot of Biblical ignorance….this man’s got one strange ministry. Better to just talk to the blessed Christ yourself and buy a King James Bible and ask Him to help you interpret it!
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Well, the date has come and gone, and suprise, he didn’t take down the page. Instead we’re blessed with this little evasive gem:
“IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT NASA USED ‘DEEP IMPACT’
TO SHATTER OR RE-DIRECT THIS COMET THREAT AND
AND SOMETIME IN JUNE OR LATER, NASA WILL ANNOUNCE
THAT BACK IN MARCH 2010 THEY ‘SHATTERED A COMET
IN DEEP SPACE THAT POSED NO THREAT TO EARTH’. ”
Sure buddy, whatever helps you avoid the phrase “I was wrong.”