F6 .. "But one thing that is fairly well agreed upon among devout “Twelvers” is that the Mahdi will end apostasy and purify corruption within Islam. He is expected to conquer the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Syria, “Palestine,” Egypt and North Africa, and eventually the entire world. During this time, he and Jesus will kill between 60 and 80 percent of the world’s population, specifically those who refuse to convert to Islam."
Is off the deep end. These mythologies, these super dopey hopey superstitions are about as helpful as a swarm of rattlers in a cozy, warm and wonderful love bus.
see also .. the author of the article of the post this is in reply to .. beginnings ..
Joel C. Rosenberg (born 1967) is an American communications strategist, author of the Last Jihad series, and founder of The Joshua Fund. An Evangelical Christian, he has written five novels about terrorism and how it relates to Bible Prophecy, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Ezekiel Option, along with two nonfiction books, Epicenter and Inside the Revolution, on the alleged resemblance of biblical prophecies and current events. Rosenberg serves as a political columnist for World and he has also had his work published by the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Policy Review. He and his wife, Lynn, have four sons and reside near Washington, D.C.
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Early life
Joel was born in 1967 near Rochester, New York. His father had been raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and his mother was born into a Methodist family of English descent. His parents were agnostic and became born-again Christians when he was a child. At the age of 17, he became a born-again Christian and now identifies as a Jewish believer in Jesus. After graduating in 1988 from Syracuse University, he worked for Rush Limbaugh as a research assistant. Later he worked for U.S. Presidential candidate Steve Forbes as a campaign advisor. Rosenberg opened a political consultancy business, which he ran until 2000, advising former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky and then-former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu where he garnered much of his information on the Middle East that he would later use in his books.
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Criticism
Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group, criticized Rosenberg's July 31, 2006, Paula Zahn Now appearance that "featured a segment on 'whether the crisis in the Middle East is actually a prelude to the end of the world,' marking the third time in eight days that CNN has devoted airtime to those claiming that the ongoing Mideast violence signals the coming of the Apocalypse." It featured Rosenberg comparing apocalyptic Scripture in the Bible to modern events, which he views, in addition to the lenses of politics and economics, through what he calls "a third lens as well: the lens of Scripture."
Rosenberg's views on the War of Ezekiel 38–39 involving Gog and Magog are in line with dispensationalism, .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism .. which is an eschatology that is debated in the Christian community. Partial preterist Gary DeMar has debated Rosenberg on this subject. Rosenberg's work and responses to it by world leaders has earlier precedents in the work of Herbert Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God (WCG), especially its Plain Truth magazine until 1995, when changes in the WCG's doctrines led its leaders to disavow further speculation and overemphasis in Bible prophecy following Armstrong's death in 1986. .. more .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_C._Rosenberg
Murdoch, Ahmadinejad, Mohammad, Jesus make quite a quartet.
Rupert Murdoch makes scandals… and Bibles, apparently
The world’s biggest Bible publisher, Zondervan, is owned by Harper Collins Publishers, which is owned by News Corp., which is owned by none other than Rupert Murdoch. The phone-tapping scandals at Murdoch’s News of the World have the potential to shake up publications across his empire, including the evangelical Zondervan.
Zondervan says Rupert Murdoch connection does not present ‘ethical dilemma’
Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 13:55 (BST)
Zondervan has said that its connection to News Corporation does not present an ethical dilemma for the company.
The Christian book and Bible publisher is owned by Harper Collins, a subsidiary of News Corp, which has hit the rocks over allegations that phone hacking was widespread at one of its newspapers.
News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch and his son, chairman of News International, James Murdoch, were grilled for three hours by a Commons Select Committee yesterday over the scandal that brought down The News of the World.
A bewildered-looking Rupert Murdoch denied knowledge of phone hacking but admitted that it had been the “most humble day” of his life.
Zondervan’s link to News Corp has been strongly criticised by blogger Will Braun in a post that has been circulated further in major US news outlets like the Houston Chronicle and USA Today.
In his post, Braun debates the ethics of buying Bibles from a publisher that is owned by Murdoch.
“For those us of [sic] who care about the Christian scriptures, what are we to make of this mix of billionaire media tycoonery, allegations of phone hacking and bribery, and the Holy Word of God?" he said.
“What are we to make of the fact that every time we buy a Zondervan product we contribute to Murdoch’s mogul-dom, which includes a personal fortune that Forbes pegged at $6.3 billion last year.”
Zondervan has issued a statement indicating that it has no plans to change the way it operates in light of the crisis affecting News Corp.
Tara Powers, a spokeswoman, who said, "This does not present an ethical dilemma for Zondervan as we will continue to operate with autonomy as we always have.
"We are fortunate to have strong and positive relationships with our authors. They know who Zondervan is and how we operate and we have not heard of serious concerns from authors.
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