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If you had big plans this weekend, David Meade regrets to inform you that the world will be ending Saturday.
Meade, a Christian numerologist and self-described "researcher," says Sept. 23 is foretold in the Bible's Book of Revelation as the day a series of catastrophic events will begin, and as a result, "a major part of the world will not be the same," the Washington Post reports.
The Bible prophecies a woman "clothed with the sun" and a "crown of 12 stars" giving birth to a boy who will "rule all the nations" while she fights off a seven-headed dragon. The woman, Meade says, is the constellation Virgo, which on Saturday will be positioned under nine stars and three planets, per Popular Mechanics.
The baby boy will be the planet Jupiter, which will be moving out of Virgo on that night.
According to Meade, who says he studied astronomy at an unspecified university in Kentucky, the great change in our world will be the result of the arrival of Nibiru, a planet famous in conspiracy circles but which astronomers say doesn't exist.
http://wnep.com/2017/09/20/researcher-says-this-saturday-will-be-the-end-of-the-world/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/ (soft paywalled)
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:16AM (1 child)
As far as I can tell, evangelical Christians drive the majority of US politics at all levels. It's unheard of for an elected candidate to make any progress without beating the bible a bit. Even sportspeople and beauty pagent winners go on about it.
It's disgusting, it's started to become noticeable again in many "developed" nations, but the USA has never even attempted to pretend to be either secular or even quietly faithful rather than chest-beatingly evangelical.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:30PM
You have to recognize that the place was populated^W invaded by rejects from other places.
The Pilgrims and The Puritans left England for the western hemisphere because the brand of religion there wasn't whacko enough for them.
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