This marginal-, apocalyptic-, far out-, fringe-Christian stuff is different from the beliefs held by the Iranian Mullahs and the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because...............
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I suppose we can give you a 100 points for insulting. But then, it's tradition on these threads. Cue Tevya
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1. It's not marginal. I forget the most recent stats. I have in my head that it's over 80% of Americans of all ages and walks of life believe in the existence of such things; in the phenomena, as it can be called.
2. Apocalyptic--Well, choose your apoalypse. The New Agers have a scenario whereby the Christians are going to be taken away by giant UFO's to relieve the earth of the burden of them so that the earth can transit to the NEW AGE! Quite a tidy wholesale distortion there!
The Malthusian environmentalist characters believe we are doing ourselves in along with the poor beleagered earth and it's innocent animals by all our materialism and population masses.
Close behind and in league with them, the puppet masters agree and are determined to reduce the global population to 500,000,000--as you can read more obliquely on the GEORGIA GUIDE STONES.
Then there's various weather scenarios, quake scenarios and comet and meteor scenarios.
Personally, I'll take The Bible, Daniel, Ezekiel, Matt 24 and Revelation over other scenarios any day. May as well deal with THE TRUTH.
3. Far Out. Actually, given all the evidence that's been accruing the last 45+ years . . . I tend to think it's far out to be blind to SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Then there's the aspect of FAR OUT tends to be in the eye or brain of the beholder.
On the other side of the coin, God and HIS DOINGS ARE . . . from a number of perspectives FAR OUT and FAR IN. But you'll see that in due course.
Of course, there are folks who have a seeming incapacity to consider things real or valid unless they thought of them first or near first.
Actually, FAR OUT probably fits Shrillery and her plans for the Republic and the planet a lot more. Or the candidacy of SKERRY. Now that was far out . . . to lunch.
All this field is just a bunch of ET/ UFO/ Black ops/ satanic/ demonism/ exotic tech/ disinformation/ smoke screen/ mirrors/ power mongers/ globalist /evil utopian/ Machiavellian manipulation stuff. I suppose you could call it far out. But it seems to me it's the same evil heart of man trying to gain advantage any way but God's way.
4. Fringe-Christian. Actually, Pentecostals-Charismatics probably make up the largest single block of Christians on the planet currently . . . and growing. Virtually all of them are firm in their belief of our being in the END TIMES. Or, were you talking about your brand of Christianity being the fringe?
5. There is no God like Jehovah, as the song says. The rag muffins can have their demonic moon god allah and all their demonized plans for world conquest. I'm waiting for
THE RETURN OF THE KING.
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Cheers
--Dr Quix
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Of the slightly over 2B Christians worldwide slightly over 50% are Roman Catholics. Since Pentecostals/Charismatics are a sub-group of Protestantism, your contention seems unlikely to be true.