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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 06:16 PM Original message |
The media’s shameful, cruel obsession with those awaiting the rapture |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, if it hadn't been for the infinite numbers of posts about it on DU |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. This is really |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
2. Not enough judgment |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 06:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I haven't heard why the man hanged himself in a Catholic church. |
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moobu2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The 'Left Behind' book series has sold over 70 million copies |
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AlecBGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-22-11 06:11 AM Response to Reply #5 |
16. ugh |
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phasma ex machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. Mass media loves to promote fear. nt |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. But they don't "get theirs." What nonsense. |
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AlecBGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-22-11 06:12 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. heh, good point |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
8. What a crock. If religion didn't put itself in the spotlight every single day.... |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. Rapture predictions are the rare case where religious dogma is put to the test |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. If the Rapture makes the top five Google searches... |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
11. These silly eschatological things have happened before |
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onager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. I first heard about it on their own billboard. |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
13. I don't follow the reasoning. These people wanted to be abused; |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
14. Camping got what he wanted, a media circus, |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-22-11 03:30 AM Response to Original message |
15. If you chose to make an ass of yourself in front of the entire world, you've only yourself to blame. |
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Nay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-22-11 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
18. It's not shameful or cruel, or obsessive, to report on and then expose |
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EvolveOrConvolve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-22-11 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
19. I have no respect for these people at all and very little sympathy |
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