This Week in God

[cbayer]

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/10/12/20934423-this-week-in-god

By Steve Benen - Sat Oct 12, 2013 9:55 AM EDT
Associated Press



First up from the God Machine this week is a special kind of elected member of Congress who is convinced that President Obama may be ushering in a Biblical apocalypse. You get one guess as to which member of Congress is espousing this theory.

If you said, "Hey, that sounds like the sort of madness we might hear from Michele Bachmann," give yourself a prize.

In an interview with Understanding the Times host Jan Markell on Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann accused President Obama of giving aid to Al Qaeda, which she said is proof that we are living in the Last Days. Of course, on the same day Bachmann gave the interview, a Delta Force operation approved by Obama nabbed a key Al Qaeda figure in Libya.

But according to Bachmann, Obama is now championing the terrorist group.

The Minnesota congresswoman referred to a decision by the Obama administration to allow vetted Syrian rebels not affiliated with terrorist organizations to help them resist chemical weapons attacks, which was spurred by the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons on civilians.

The right-wing Minnesotan said the president unilaterally "waived a ban on arming terrorists" -- a development that did not occur in this reality -- in order to "give arms" to al Qaeda, which also did not occur. Based on these imaginary events, which Bachmann perceives as real, the congresswoman openly speculated about the End of Days.

"What this says to me, I'm a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God's end times history," Bachmann said. "Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand. When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this; these days would be as the days of Noah."

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[struggle4progress]

1. I'm a wacko and I'm proud! I'm not afraid of being loud!

And if you look around these days , there seems to be a wackadoodle craze!
I'm a wacko! He's a wacko! She's a wacko! We're all wacko!
Wouldn't you like to be a wacko too?

[cbayer]

2. They do look wackier by the day.

They are really speaking to the extreme at this point.

And that's fine with me. It's when they moderate it to get to a more general crowd that I get worried.

[trotsky]

3. They're just her religious beliefs.

Who are we to say she's wrong?

Or is it OK to tell some people their religious beliefs are false?

[Angry Dragon]

4. JC said 'NO ONE' would know the end of times

so she is debunked by JC himself

[trotsky]

5. Not really.

She didn't say exactly when. Stil can't say she is wrong.