Don’t blame eclipses on President Obama

[AlbertCat]

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.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/dont-blame-eclipses-president-obama?cid=sm_fb_maddow



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Magical thinking from actual adults.... with zero inkling about our solar system, the moon, and reality. Fear mongering.


Religion is ridiculous.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. I can understand how this worked so well thousands of years ago,

but to think that one person today would fall for this is scary. I am terrified that people who have access to the facts would believe something as ridiculous as this.

Next, virgins will be sacrificed to the volcanoes.

[bvf]

2. Indeed.

There are still cave people living among us.

[onager]

3. Bump for Sophisticated Theology!

This reminds me of H.L. Mencken's theory about how religion got started. From memory:

Once, when our ancestors lived in caves, great rains came. Our ancestors moved to higher and higher ground, but the rain kept falling.

They moved onto the peak of the very highest mountain they could reach. Still the rain came until it lapped at their ankles.

Finally one man screamed: "The rain must stop!"

Purely out of coincidence, the rain did stop. And that man became the first priest.

ETA - you're seeing many ETAs from me today. This is due to problems with my device. And my brain. Mostly the latter.

[AlbertCat]

4. Love it!

But my theory of how religion got started involves cavemen eating the wrong mushrooms....

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[deucemagnet]

5. So now ominous events portend that we've angered the psychotic sky-daddy?

Great.