Posted on 04/12/2013 8:22:47 AM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
The crew of the (heavily modified) Tu-95 "Bear" that dropped it over Novaya Zemlya would be surprised to learn that.
They had to take off the bomb bay doors and remove the fuselage fuel tanks. Not a recipe for viable long-range delivery.
On second thought, they might have been able to stick it in one of those giant Antonov transport planes.
If you roll a pair of dice over and over, predicting snake eyes each time, the first correct prediction is nothing special relative to the others.
That said, anybody who thinks that the Tsar Bomba was in any way representative of modern thermonuclear weapons is delusional. Or ignorant. Or stupid. Or some such thing.
To become a Christian, you look past your intellect and accept the atoning blood of Christ and His message on faith. But many people who become Christians apply that same faith to the leadership in their own church and any guests they may bring in.
What ends up happening is that charlatans discover that because people often turn off their skeptical side when doing anything “church related” and will accept as truth a lot of pure crap coming from the mouths of those that seem to speak with authority. I was one of them. My faith is in Christ. I may listen to the words of other men and their interpretations of scripture, but my Lord admonishes me to “test the sprits”. Does His word line up with the claims being made? Often not.
It’s why I used to be a pre-tribulationist but am now
pre-wrath, and why I no longer believe that non-believers will spend eternity in suffering, but will, as the bible says, suffer the second and final death. Their punishment (death) will be eternal. They will not come back.
Both positions came from actually studying the subjects in His word, while my earlier positions on both were based on merely accepting the word of another man and assigning authority to his words merely because he professed to be Christian.
That said, anybody who thinks that the Tsar Bomba was in any way representative of modern thermonuclear weapons is delusional. Or ignorant. Or stupid. Or some such thing.
To become a Christian, you look past your intellect and accept the atoning blood of Christ and His message on faith. But many people who become Christians apply that same faith to the leadership in their own church and any guests they may bring in.
What ends up happening is that charlatans discover that because people often turn off their skeptical side when doing anything “church related” and will accept as truth a lot of pure crap coming from the mouths of those that seem to speak with authority. I was one of them. My faith is in Christ. I may listen to the words of other men and their interpretations of scripture, but my Lord admonishes me to “test the sprits”. Does His word line up with the claims being made? Often not.
It’s why I used to be a pre-tribulationist but am now
pre-wrath, and why I no longer believe that non-believers will spend eternity in suffering, but will, as the bible says, suffer the second and final death. Their punishment (death) will be eternal. They will not come back.
Both positions came from actually studying the subjects in His word, while my earlier positions on both were based on merely accepting the word of another man and assigning authority to his words merely because he professed to be Christian.
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