Lets face it , the only reason for this article is Anti-Christian Bigotry. All of the articles are so twisted that a third grader can find the flaws. For example, no where does Chuck Smith make a prediction of a time or date but the Christian haters at Wikipedia twist what he says to try & make him look like a kook. The same can be said of the Martin Luther part. Boy I guess you Christaphobes have nothing better to do then vomit up your anti-Christian hate. No wonder no one trusts Wikipedia anymore. It is just a mouthpiece for the loony liberal God-hating left.
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It's not anti-Christian hate, you monkey-head! It's ANTI-FUNDIE HATE! THERE'S A DIFFERENCE!
We love Christians & Christianity...when it's done correctly! Jesus was WAY COOL!
It's you totalitarian schmucks with your fetish for blood, dominance & hate that are the problem! Jesus didn't preach all those social/ethical teachings & did good deeds for no reason!
*AAAARRRGGLLE!*
Of all the things to take offence to. If person A said that event X was to happen at date Y and it didn't happen then it is an unfulfilled prediction. Sorry if reality isn't to your liking.
There is also a couple of easy fundie cop-outs : either person A as a lowly, flawed human got the date wrong or else he was a devil/demoniacally possessed and trying to tempt the righteous with false predictions or the standard God works in mysterious ways excuse.
For example, no where does Chuck Smith make a prediction of a time or date but the Christian haters at Wikipedia twist what he says to try & make him look like a kook. The same can be said of the Martin Luther part.
"I believe the Lord could come back for his church anytime before the tribulation starts, which would mean anytime before 1981." Chuck Smith, End Times (1979)
"I verily believe that the judgment day is at the door, though men are-thinking least about it." Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility (1520)
Wikipedia has its many faults, but it you think the "loony liberal God-hating left" is one of them, stick to Conservapedia and let the world laugh at you.
I always wondered how fundies could ignore all these end-time prediction failures, now I know.
They JUST IGNORE them and pretend the person never actually set a date. Straight out denial that the prophicer never actually said that, for certain, kinda ballparked it y'know, you wait, one day he'll be right.
It works with their Republican leaders and Right-Wing media personalities to, look how long Palin stumbled and failed before her fan club dwindled under the sheer weight of stupid.
For example, no where does Chuck Smith make a prediction of a time or date but the Christian haters at Wikipedia twist what he says to try & make him look like a kook.
The Wiki article gives specific footnoted references to Chuck's predictions. Like most charlatans, fortune-tellers and con men, he comes up with weasel words after the fact to talk himself out of being wrong.
And once more, the Fundie Word definition marches on.
Bigotry: Pointing out that a group isn't flawless and gets things wrong, much to their chagrin.
I actually attended Chuck Smith's church in the eighties, in part because he was so balanced, and he made a point of teaching about the political and cultural reasons behind some of the objectionable, sexist, racist, violent things that are written in the Bible, so that congregants would not take them literally (or to be the word of God). That would be after these statements. I don't know what he's doing now, but he wasn't a crazy fundie preaching end of the world, rapture destruction in those years, by any stretch.
Wait, we're Christaphobes? But, that would mean we fear Christ. We're the ones who AREN'T afraid. You're the ones who speak of a fear of God, remember? That makes YOU the Chrisaphobe.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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