The spectacular "blood moon" visible early Wednesday morning is not something atheists can explain, but Joel 2:31 in the Bible talks about the extraordinary phenomenon. What, "educated" atheists don't even know that there is a Book of Joel in the Bible??
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Let me take a stab at this without even looking it up....
The light from the sun passes through the earth's atmosphere before being reflected off the moon. In much the same way that red light is scattered during a sunset, the red light is also scattered as it passes through our atmosphere, giving the light reflecting off the moon a red color.
Like all references to science in the bible, Joel does not explain the blood moon, only that it is a sign of bad things a-coming. Since Happy and Arctic appear to be a lot smarter than the writers of Joel, I'm going to go with the science rather than the mumbo-jumbo.
It's an annual occurrence, and something our European ancestors welcomed as part of spring and fall. Ancient Pagans may not have had your education, Schlafly, but they were leaps and bound ahead of you in intellect.
If the blood moon were a bad omen, the world would implode twice a year, perhaps more.
That Bible verse does indeed TALK about the extraordinary phenomenon, but it doesn't EXPLAIN it, stupid. Scientists can easily explain the phenomenon, and most atheists are able to google it to see what the explanation is. Apparently, fundies can't use Google...
I didn't know that there is a Book of Joel, no. In my Christianity lessons in school, we focused mostly on the New Testament, ya know the part where CHRIST is a vital element. Do you know how many suras there are in the Koran? You can be educated without studying religions, stupid.
" The spectacular "blood moon" visible early Wednesday morning is not something atheists can explain, "
Unless they have passed a 5th grade science class
How does science not being able to explain something prove your specific brand of religious bullshit true and ever other brand of religious bullshit false?
And we've been able to explain and predict eclipses for hundreds of years, so, fail, and fail.
What I can't explain is the sheer amount of Derp that comes from Andy without him doing a simple Google search that would keep him from looking like a clueless asshole.
It is amusing though.
I wonder how many christians have/will read that and went, wait ... there's a book called Joel ? We know many of them don't read the bible and just feed at the feel-good trough of the pastor/priest.
"The spectacular "blood moon" visible early Wednesday morning is not something atheists can explain"
For the hopelessly clueless out there...:
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...and no, the answer's not 'Alicorn GOTT Director'. But Andy Schaftafly would be stupid enough to say that, as he thinks 'Relativity' isn't important enough, when that's the very basis of the Global Positioning System.
And not just electronically/horologically, but Astronomi cally.
Fuck me, but that's Astronomy 101. Just ask fellow Christian Dr. Buzz Aldrin; Ph.D from MIT before his Moon landing, and he being a Space Scientist to this day, who can reconcile his beliefs with proven facts , Andy.
"Tide goes in, tide goes out. No one can explain it".
Yep. There's a reason Andy and Bill O'Reilly are on the same side.
List of books in the new testament of the bible
Matthew
Where's the book of Joel? And don't give me the line about the 'Old Testament.' That is for the Israelites (Jews) only
Joel was probably written around the middle of the first millennium BC, at which time solar and lunar eclipses and their causes were well known and predictable. Not something atheists can explain? Heck, even the Babylonians, with whom the Judeans were well acquainted at that time, could have easily explained it.
The whole idea of "blood moons" is a recent invention of some guy peddling his "prophesy" book. There have been dozens of "blood moons" in the last few thousand years. People have decided this one is "significant" because two of the eclipses fall on Passover and Sukkot. But since Passover and Sukkot fall on the 14th of the Jewish month, and all Jewish months begin more or less on the new moon, Passover and Sukkot always fall on or near a full moon, since the full moon is always around 14 3/4 days after the new moon. And the recent blood moon doesn't even fall on the start of Sukkot - Sukkot begins at sunset on October 8, while the total eclipse is on the night of October 7th-8th.
In that case, we might as well hail John Fogerty as a quasideity.
If you don't know what something is, here's a tip: use Google.
I know there's a book of Joel, a book of Habakkuk, a book of Zephaniah, and a book of Tobit.
*waits for a flame war to begin in CONservapedia*
The spectacular "blood moon" visible early Wednesday morning is not something atheists can explain
It's been explained, quite easily.
Going grief. There is grasping at straws, then there is this.....
I would say stop before embarrassing yourself, Andy , but to late for that.
And they let this guy be a teacher....
It's called a Lunar eclipse, Buzzy. It happens all the time. Sometimes, during a Full Moon, the Earth goes between the Moon & Sun, casting a shadow over the former.
"Blood Moon" is also a Celtic Pagan term for the October moon (whenever an eclipse is involved or not). I also sounds like a euphemism for something that happens to women & girls once a month.
In fact, my "Blood Moon" should be saying "hello" any day now (I keep track).
TMI, sorry.
("Buzzy" my nickname for the Schlafly. "Mama Buzzy" is for Phyllis)
Wow, in his ever desperate attempts to find something, anything , rational about his beliefs, Shitfly has regularly tossed one aspect of science after another onto his personal offering prye to stupidity.
This time it's optics, ironically a science predominantly founded by Newton, who Andy has often previously touted as a "real" scientist.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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