It's very disappointing that the story of an Adelaide man being caught up in the birther fraud has been given such short shrift in Australia.
You can listen to it here on ABC radio's PM, but really we should do better in our bit of loon pond.
Apparently a bunchy of naughty birthers in the USA got taken in by a forged birth certificate belonging to a public servant in Adelaide by the name of David Jeffrey Bomford. It seems the hackers found the certificate on Bomford's genealogy website, and then twisted it to their own purposes to confirm yet again that Obama was actually born in Kenya.
Tim Blair gave it a passing reference under the header Ozbama, but saved his soul amongst his chooks by linking to some Obama bashing sites as a bonus. Happily a few birthers chimed in to confirm that deeply disturbed loons joyously frolic in Blair's pond, with the bonus suggestion that hippies are registering as republicans to skew the primaries process (Arlo Guthrie, curse your republicanism).
Meantime, it was hugely exciting to learn that Jesus actually revealed the name of the antichrist and it was of course Barack Obama.
You can find the startling, shocking revelation here, under the header Did Jesus actually reveal name of 'antichrist', along with a link to the amazing and astonishing video.
It seems a Christian - well naturally that's a top notch qualification for a conspiracy theorist - did a little digging, and came up with a remarkable insight:
"When I started doing a little research, I found the Greek word for 'lightning' is 'astrape', and the Hebrew equivalent is 'Baraq,'" said YouTube contributor "ppsimmons," a self-described Christian with a theological education and many years in the ministry, who spoke to WND under condition of anonymity out of concern for members of his local church. "I thought that was fascinating."
As he continued looking into the rest of the words in the phrase, he focused on "heaven," and found that it can refer not just to God's dwelling place, but also "the heights" or "high places."
He then recalled Isaiah 14:14, where Lucifer, another name for Satan, is quoted as saying, "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."
"I wondered what the word 'heights' is," said ppsimmons, "and I looked it up in the dictionary, and it's 'Bamah.'"
Thus, on the video, the announcer notes, "If spoken by a Jewish rabbi today, influenced by the poetry of Isaiah, he would say these words in Hebrew ... 'I saw Satan as Baraq Ubamah.'"
"Gosh, was Jesus giving us a clue or was this just a freak coincidence?" thought the filmmaker at the time of his research.
Gosh, are Christians barking mad only in the full moon, or all the time?
When WND asked if people should take the video seriously or with a grain of salt, its producer said, "I take the middle road. I don't take it with a grain of salt, but I don't use the Bible like a Ouija board either. It's not like a magical crystal ball. Clear prophecy is one thing. Making word associations is another. Just look at it. I wouldn't take it super serious and say that's the proof we need. It's a little weird."
Not as weird as you buddy.
Fortunately the movie has a prominent disclaimer stressing that the film doesn't declare Obama's the antichrist. It's just a "striking correlation" and maybe he's just a naughty boy, while scientific Christian researchers only howl at night at the moon when it's in the direction of north by north west. Or there's hawks and hand saws around.
But welcome to loon pond, home of Nostradamus, Satanists, tea leaf readers, Rasputin, birthers, tea party flapjacks, astrologers, Republicans, Tim Blair devotees, and 999'ers who love to do handstands.
For a Christian country based on the message of love, it's remarkable just how much hatred, fear and loathing the right, and fundie Christians manage to exude, not to mention a little birther fraud every now and then.
Meanwhile, go team antiChrist.
idiots, ther is no god?
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