My approximate view of God...
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Tetrad
There is a "blood moon" (a kind of lunar eclipse) this Tuesday. Doomsdayers on-line are already connecting it with the US attack on the Iranian regime, Gog and Magog, and (surprise) the end of the world as-we-know-it.
Now, read the articles linked below. They are from 2018, when similar apocalyptic fantasies were projected onto an earlier "blood moon". This because of some apocalyptic-mongering book from 2016 about "a tetrad" of such lunar eclipses.
Point being: we´re still here, and "blood moons" (including their alleged "tetrads") have entirely natural explanations. So no, the world won´t end this time either. Let me guess? The next time there is a bloody eclipse (next year, say) I will have to repost these links to debunk it *again*?
Blood moon myths and conspiracy theories
Still waiting for the apocalypse
How many times do I have to repost this link, do you think?
Gog and Magog: Israel´s Mysterious Northern Foes
Also, see this (from my own blog):
No coke in Doha
Jag kan förstå att någon måste mellanlanda i t.ex. Qatar. Som den gamle popparen Dr Alban i artikeln länkad här nedan. Det är svårare att förstå folk som bor på lyxhotell i t.ex. Dubai under en rätt så uppenbar internationell kris i närområdet. Jag menar, varför i all sin dar åker man just *dit* på semestern?!
Epstein Fury
For the record, I don´t think Trump is attacking the Iranian regime cuz Epstein something-something. Even during his (rhetorically) most peaceful period, he always had an aggressive posture against Iran. Something he had since at least the 1980´s! Of course he can use it to deflect attention from the Epstein files, but so what? Other dynamics are at play here. Obviously.
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Nothing-burger
Did anyone really think that "the Truth about Trump/Epstein" would surface when Bill and Hillary Clinton were deposited by the Congressional sub-sub-committee so-and-so? LOL.
Friday, February 27, 2026
John the Baptist: resurrected?
More on Jesus and the resurrection. Sequel to the recent blog posts on the topic.
How likely was it that Jews would have expected an executed Messiah-pretender to have been resurrected? How would they have interpreted visionary experiences of a dead person? In other words, how unique was the resurrection belief in context of 1st century Judaism in Palestine?
Christian apologists Craig and Wright suggest it was unique, but "Skeptical Agnostic" begs to disagree. Interesting!
Ignoble lies
Influential evangelical-fundamentalist Church leader John MacArthur (who recently passed away) was apparently a "mental health denialist". He didn´t believe ADHD, OCD, PTSD or depression were real things?! Or, to be more precise, he seems to have believed they were forms of negative thinking you can somehow out-God away (or out-Church away).
For some time now, I´ve been baffled by the fact that many conservative Christians in the affluent West seem unaware of things such as autism or flatly deny it. Obviously, if people like MacArthur were preaching against the very concept of mental illness, that´s part of the explanation.
Maybe this is a case of "positive thinking" and some kind of Christian or Protestant perfectionism coupled with the American craving for success in this world. Of course, there might also be a (perhaps legitimate) worry that Big Pharma and Big Shrink just wants to sell you their shit for profit and hence over-medicate. Or over-charge you for lifelong therapy?
Still, the outright mental illness denialism in these clips doesn´t strike me as a very good solution to the problem...
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