tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post3621910458343624541..comments2023-09-24T07:53:50.826-05:00Comments on The Atheist Experience™: But this Friday is the 13th!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-11035069856288267582008-06-18T14:57:00.000-05:002008-06-18T14:57:00.000-05:00Weirdly, I just saw this group interviewed on TV--...Weirdly, I just saw this group interviewed on TV--well, members and their leader. Their leader is going to court for polygamy-type things. But I wrote down an interesting quote from the show I was going to use in the Batman show, but didn't get to. I hope I still have it for the second part of that presentation (on my desk somewhere). It was about control through fear. But the example given by an ex-member, indicated nothing different than doctrine presented by nearlly any Xian church (basically, the rapture is a-comin', so you'd better be on god's short list).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-81868121449624724312008-06-12T09:17:00.000-05:002008-06-12T09:17:00.000-05:00This particular kook has made several end-of-the-w...This particular kook has made several end-of-the-world predictions in the past: September 2006, June 2007 are the most recent.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrayl_Hawkins" REL="nofollow">Wikipedia's article about Yisrayl Hawkins</A> contains more information.<BR/><BR/>If there is no war, he can claim it was "held back" as a result of their prayers.<BR/><BR/>If there is a war, he was right.<BR/><BR/>He can't lose!FTWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11804709824000870112noreply@blogger.com