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04/14/2004: "The End Of The World Is Past"

Fierce Fighting With Sunnis and Shiites Spreads to 6 Iraqi Cities
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and DOUGLAS JEHL
It was one of the most violent days in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, with half a dozen cities ignited. The New York Times Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Moktada al-Sadr, a rebel Shiite cleric who is wanted by American forces in connection with a killing last year, continued to stir up his followers. In a statement issued Tuesday from Najaf, he urged disciples to keep up the fight. "America has shown its evil intentions," Mr. Sadr said, "and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit."

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Realist Comment:

Moktada al-Sadr is a "religious" man who believes the end of the world is at hand. People who hold this belief care nothing about the world we live in, and often feel the need to help God bring on that apocalyptic cataclysm. That makes him, and all who hold this belief, very dangerous.

Why does Mr. Sadr think the world is coming to and end? Many people in Islam and Christianity hold this belief, and base their inherently flawed concepts on the historical prophecies of Armageddon. Their failure to recognize the simple truth that the Bible is a closed history, keeps them from seeing that those prophecies have already been fulfilled.

Killing Mr. Sadr will not solve this problem!

An ideological conflict requires an ideological solution. It is time to admit that the biblical prophecies of the end of the world refer to the end of the ancient world. All of those prophecies were fulfilled with the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in AD70. At that time: there was a great battle of the gods, the ancient world came to an end and the meek (humans) were left alone on the earth in the deep ignorance of the dark ages of the early modern world.

The Bible is an ancient world text. When it refers to an apocalyptic battle of the gods that will end the world, it refers to the ancient world – not the modern. If we simply begin to study the Bible as history, it will end ideological terrorism, give us inner and universal peace and release a surge of progress and prosperity for all of humanity. Let us begin!

Think and go free.



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