Second coming could be high-tech: US evangelist

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Second coming could be high-tech: US evangelist

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US evangelist Franklin Graham thinks the second coming of Jesus Christ could be a social media event captured by millions of mobile phones.


"The Bible says that every eye is going to see it" and that Christ will "come on the clouds," Graham, the oldest son of preacher Billy Graham, who used the media to make Christian evangelism a global phenomenon, told ABC News presenter Christiane Amanpour, host of "This Week."


"How is the whole world going to see him at one time? I don't know, unless all of a sudden everybody's taking pictures (with their cell phones) and it's on the media worldwide," he said in the interview to be aired Easter Sunday.


"I don't know. Social media could have a big part in that," the 58-year-old Graham said, noting the role that mobile phone recordings have played in spreading the word about the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.

"Look at what's happening in Libya or Egypt. Everybody's got their phone out and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube or whatever, and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world," he said.


In an interview last month with another media outlet, Graham said the powerful earthquake and massive tsunami in Japan could be signs that the end was nigh.


"What are the signs of the second coming? War and famine and earthquakes... Maybe this is it, I don?t know," he told Newsmax.com in that interview.
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My advice: Don't stand underneath when Christ.......oh, never mind.
 
Uh, has this guy been hiding under a rock? Jesus is already on Twitter. Not sure if he's got the hang of it yet though...seems to have at least three accounts.
 
@Earth I iz back ppl JC bout to drop a huge one on the world! Meek, get rdy.
 
Dorian Gray said:
@Earth I iz back ppl JC bout to drop a huge one on the world! Meek, get rdy.
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Nominated. :D

As far as Franklin Graham is concerned, I'll just put him in my ever-building evidence pile which basically states: The majority of religious leaders are big old trolls, coming up with stupider and stupider stuff every day and saying to themselves, "I can't believe anybody is stupid enough to believe this, but as long as they keep sending me money, I can keep cranking out some doozies." They've really been ramping up the crazy lately in their race to outdo each other.
 
I prayed for a new laptop with a SandyBridge CPU, but ended up with an HP DV6 instead, Jesus Christ sucks at high tech stuff.
 
I was praying one dark and stormy night and I heard a voice, softly at first, then louder and louder and the voice sayeth unto me, "for christ sake come and dry up these bloody dishes before I knock the crap out of you".

And the the lords will was law and the law was obeyed

(very quickly) :p
 
I was praying one dark and very stormy night. I heard a voice, soflty at first, it got louder, and louder and the voice commanded me, the voice said, " for christ sake come and dry these bloody dishes up before I knock the crap out of you"

And I heard the voice, and the voice was obeyed very quickly. ;)
 
The REVEREND Franklin Graham says something stupid. Since when is that news?

Of course, Franklin is simply following the lead of his famous father, who tried to weave technological advances such as radio and television into the Divine "Plan," in the apparent delusion that the author of Revelation had accurately foreseen such things.
 
Brown said:
The REVEREND Franklin Graham says something stupid. Since when is that news?

Of course, Franklin is simply following the lead of his famous father, who tried to weave technological advances such as radio and television into the Divine "Plan," in the apparent delusion that the author of Revelation had accurately foreseen such things.
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Meh! These loons say wacky things all the time so its not surprising. What is surprising is that theres people that believe that stuff.
 
Christ will "come on the clouds,"

Wow, so the bible predicts cloud computing? And Jesus is gonna hack all the clouds at once? Mad skillz!
 
Through the miracle of Transubstantiation, the Catholics believe they can turn bread and water into the body and blood of God.

So, I see no reason not to expect somebody else to prophesize using the same type of hocus-pocus, the Digital Transubstantiation of digital bits into God's Word. ;)

The rift will come when different sects argue over just when exactly the bits become Gods Word. Will it be when someone hits the 'send' button? Or not until the faithful hit the download button? ;)
 
I'll never understand the impulse to turn a cosmic, all-powerful deity into a mundane schlub. If a man appeared on TV and claimed to be Christ, would that be at all amazing? To anyone?

If I were God, you bet your ass I'm coming back with clouds of fire, horses the size of small moons, and/or a huge Rod Stewart come back special.
 
As far as I know, not one of the televangelists has squarely addressed the embarrassing fact that Scripture seems to state fairly plainly--and repeatedly--that the so-called second coming would occur within the lives of Jesus's contemporaries. Some of the professions of a return in less than a lifetime are attributed to Mr. Christ Himself.

Unless you want to take up the absurd tale of the Wandering Jew, it is beyond dispute by reasonable people that all persons who were alive in Jesus's day are now dead. And it is the consensus of the faithful that the second coming did not occur before they all died.

In other words, it appears that either Jesus was flat-out wrong or that patently false quotes were attributed to him by Holy Scripture.
 
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