"REVELATIONS" AND HUMANKIND`S ENDGAME
New TV Series Examines The Apocalypse
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005
By: NICK REDFERN
Phenomena US Editor In Chief
"AND THE SUN WILL TURN TO DARKNESS
AND THE MOON WILL TURN TO BLOOD."
"Phenomena Magazine" was very pleased
to have recently received a review copy
of the pilot episode of a great new series
that premieres on NBC on Wednesday 13 April
(9.00 to 10.00 p.m. Eastern Time/Pacific Time).
Titled "Revelations" and from the team of
executive producer Gavin Polone ("Panic Room")
and writer/creator David Seltzer ("The Omen"),
this six-hour "event-series"
stars Bill Pullman
(of "Independence Day")
as Harvard professor
Dr. Richard Massey, an astrophysicist
whose certainty that all worldly events can be
explained by science, and Natascha McElhone
(from the movie "Solaris")
as Sister Josepha Montafiore,
a nun who challenges Massey's beliefs
and his worldview, and who leads him on a
journey through uncharted waters and amazing beliefs.
Drawn inexorably together by personal tragedy,
these distinctly unlikely partners -
one who has given her life to the God
she believes in
and one who strictly adheres to the world of Science -
are propelled into an ever-deepening mystery,
finding disturbing evidence that our world,
as predicted in The Book of Revelation,
has reached the so-called "End of Days."
Not only that: the time of miracles is
once again at hand -
both Heaven sent, and Hell sent.
Satanist Isaiah Haden (chillingly portrayed
by Michael Massee of the acclaimed series "24")
has answered the calling of the Lord of the Underworld
to ensure that the Armies of Darkness will triumph
in the apocalyptic battle that is to
Revelations' Natascha McElhone & Bill Pullman
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The funny part is how Revelations are interpretated, never mind,
puttiing it through the dream factory.
Try one of the first attempts:
The Making of Revelation, Part I:
PHILIP JOSE FARMER 1980
God said, 'Bring me Cecil B De Mille.' 'Dead or Alive?' the angel
Gabriel said. 'I want to make him an offer he can't refuse. Can even I
do this to a dead man Oh, I see,' said Gabriel, who didn't. 'It will
he done. And it was. Cecil Blont De Mille, confused, stood in front of
the desk. He didn't like it. He was used to sitting behind the desk
while others stood. However, considering he circumstances, he wasn't
about to protest. The giant divinely handsome, bearded, pipe-smoking
man behind the desk was not one you'd screw around with. However, the
grey eyes, though steely, weren't quite those of a Wall Street banker.
They held a hint of compassion. Unable to meet those eyes, DeMille
looked at the angel by his side. He's always thought angels had wings.
This one didn't, though he could certainly fly. He'd carried De Mille
in his arms up through the stratosphere to a city of gold somewhere
between the earth and the moon, without a space suit too. God like all
entities came right to the point.
This is 1980 AD in twenty years it will be the millennium the day of
Judgement The events as depicted in the book of Revelation or the
Apocalypse by St John the Divine You know the seven seals the four
horsemen the moon dripping blood and all that. De Mille wished he'd be
invited to sit down Being dead
For twenty one years, during which he'd not moved a muscle, had tended
to weaken him. 'Take a chair,' God said. 'Gabe, bring the man a
brandy.' He puffed on his pipe; tiny lightning crackled through the
cloud of smoke. Here you are, Mr De Mille,' Gabriel said, handing him
the liqueur in a cut quartz goblet. 'Napoleon 1880.' De Mille knew
there wasn't any such thing as a one- hundred year old brandy, but he
didn't argue. Anyway, the stuff certainly tasted like it was. They
really lived up here. God sighed, and said, The main trouble s that not
many people really believe in me any more. So My powers are not what
they once were. The old gods, Zeus, Odin, all that bunch lost their h-
strength and just faded away like
old soldiers, when the older worshippers ceased to believe in them. So,
I just can't handle the end of the world by Myself any more. I need
someone with experience know-how, connections, and a reputation.
Somebody people know really existed. You. Unless you know of somebody
who's made more biblical epics than you have.' 'That'll be the day'
DeMille said. 'But what about the unions? They really' gave me a hard
time, the commie bas.. . uh, so-and-so's. Are they as strong as ever?'
You wouldn't believe their clout nowadays.' De Mille bit his lip, then
said 'I want them dissolved. If I've got twenty years to produce the
film, I can't be held up by a bunch of goldbrickers.' 'No way,' God
said. They'd all strike, and we can't afford any delays' he looked at
his big railroad watch. 'We're going to be on a very tight schedule.'
Well, I don't know,' De Mille said. 'You cant get anything done with
all their regulations. Inter-union jealousy, and featherbedding. And
the wages! It's no
76 wonder it's o hard to show a profit. Its too much of a hassle!' I
can always get D.W.Griffith.
De Mille's face turned red. You want a grade B production? No, no,
that's all right! I'll do it, do God smiled and leaned back. 'I
thought so, By the way, you're not the producer, too. I am. My angels
will be the executive producers. They haven't had much to do for
several millenia, and the devil makes work for idle hands you know. Haw
haw You'll be the chief director of course. But this is going to be
quite a job. You'll. have to have at least a hundred thousand assistant
directors.' 'But ... that means training about 99,000 directors!
'That's he last of our problems. Now you can see why I want to get
things going immediately.' De Mille gripped he arms of the chair and
said, weakly. Who's going to finance this? God frowned. 'That's
another problem. My Antagonist has control of all the banks. If worse
comes to worse, I could melt down the heavenly city and sell it. But
the bottom of the gold market would drop all the way to Hell. And I'd
have to move to Beverly Hills. You wouldn't believe the smog there or
the prices they're asking for houses. However, I think I can get the
money. Leave that to Me, The men who really owned the American banks
sat at a long mahogany table -in a huge room in a Manhattan skyscraper.
The Chairman of the Board sat at the head. He didn't have the horns,
tail, and hooves. which legend gave him. Nor did he have an odour of
brimstone. More like Brut. He was devilishly handsome. and he biggest
and best-built man in the room, He Looked like he could have been the
chief of the angels and in fact once had been. His eyes were evil but
no more so then the others at the table, bar one. The exception,
Raphael, sat at the other end of the table. The only detractions from
his angelic appearance were his bloodshot eyes. His apartment on the
West Side had paper-thin walls, and the swingers' party next door had
kept him awake most of the night. Despite his fatigue, he'd been quite
effective in presenting the offer from above. Don Francisco 'The Fixer'
Fica drank a sixth glass of wine to up his courage, made the sign of
the cross, roost offensive to the Chairman, gulped. and spoke. 'I'm
sorry, Signor, but that's the way the vote went. One hundred per cent.
It's a purely business proposition, legal, too, and there's no way we
won't, make a huge profit from it. We're gonna finance the movie, come
hell or high water!' Satan reared up from his chair and slammed a huge
but well-manicured fist on to the table. Glasses of vino crashed over
plates half-filled with pasta and spaghetti rattled.
All but Raphael paled. Dio motarello! Lecaculi! Non romperci! i
coglioni!
I'm the Chairman, and I say no, no, no!' Fica looked at the other heads
of the families. Mignotta, Fregna, Stronza, Loffa, Recchione, and
Boddhino seemed scared, but each nodded the go-ahead at Fica.
'I'm indeed sorry that you don't see it our way,' Fica said. 'But I
must ask for your resignation.'
Only Raphael could meet The Big One's eyes, but business was business.
Satan cursed and threatened.
Nevertheless, he was stripped of all his shares of stock. He'd walked
in the richest man in the world, and he stormed out penniless and an
ex-member of the Organisation. Raphael caught up with him as he strode
mumbling up Park Avenue. 'You're the father of lies,' Raphael said, 'so
you can easily be a great success as an actor or politician. There's
money in both fields. Fame, too. I suggest acting. You've got more
friends in Hollywood. than anywhere else,' 'Are you nuts"' Satan
snarled, 'No. Listen. I'm authorised to sign you up for the film on
the end of the world. You'll be a lead, get top billing. You'll have to
share it with The Son, but we can guarantee you a bigger dressing room
than His. You'll be playing yourself,
so it ought to be easy work.' Satan laughed so loudly that he cleared
the sidewalks for two blocks. The Empire State Building swayed more
than it should have in the wind. 'You and your boss must think I'm
pretty dumb! Without me the film's a flop. You're up a creek without a
paddle. Why should I help you? If I do I end up at die bottom of a
flaming pit forever. Bug off!' Raphael shouted after him, 'We can
always get Roman Polanski!' Raphael reported to God, who was taking
His ease on His jasper and cornelian throne above which glowed a
rainbow. 'He's right, Your Divinity. he refuses to cooperate, the whole
deal's off. No real Satan, no real Apocalypse.' God smiled. 'We'll
See.' Raphael wanted to ask him what He had in mind. But an angel
appeared with a request that God come to the special effects
department. Its technicians were having trouble with the
roll-up-the-sky-like-a-scroll machine. 'Schmucks!' God growled. 'Do I
have to do everything?' Satan moved into a tenement on 121st Street and
went on welfare. It wasn't a bad life, not for one who was used to
Hell. But two months later, his cheeks quit coming. There was no
unemployment any more. Anyone who was capable of working but wouldn't
was out of luck. What had happened was that Central Casting had hired
everybody in the world as production workers, stars, bit players, or
extras. Meanwhile, all the advertising agencies in the world had
spread the word, good or bad, depending upon the viewpoint, that the
Bible was true. If you weren't a Christian, and, what was worse, a
sincere Christian, you were doomed to perdition.
Raphael shot up to Heaven again. 'My God, you wouldn't believe what's
happening! The Christians are repenting of their sins and promising to
be good forever and ever, amen! The Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists,
Scientologists, animists, you name them, are lining up at the baptismal
fonts! What a mess! The atheists have converted, too, and all the
Communist and Marxian socialist governments have been overthrown!'
'That's nice,' God said. 'But I'll really believe in the sincerity of
the Christian nations when they kick out their present administrations.
Down to the local dog-catcher.' 'They're doing it!' Raphael shouted.
'But maybe You don't understand! This isn't the way things go in the
Book of' Revelation! We'll have to do some very extensive rewriting of
the script! Unless You straighten things out!' God seemed very calm.
'The script? How's Ellison coming along with it?' Of course, God knew
everything that was happening, but He pretended sometimes that He
didn't. It was His excuse for talking. Just issuing a command every
once in a while made for long silences, sometimes lasting for
centuries. He had hired only science fiction writers to work on the
script since they were the only ones with imaginations big enough to
handle the job. Besides, they weren't bothered by scientific
impossibilities. God loved Ellison, the head writer, because he was the
only human he'd met so far who wasn't afraid to argue with him. Ellison
was severely handicapped, however, because he wasn't allowed to use the
obscenities while in His presence. 'Ellison's going to have a
hemorrhage when he finds out about the rewrites,' Raphael said. 'He
gets screaming mad if anyone messes around with his scripts.' 'I'll
have him up for dinner,' God said. 'If he gets too obstreperous, I'll
toss around a few lightning bolts. If he thinks he was burned before
.... Well!' Raphael wanted to question God about the tampering with the
book, but just then the head of budgets came in. The angel heat it, God
got very upset when he had to deal with money matters. The head
assistant director said, 'We got a big problem now, Mr DeMille, We
can't have any Armageddon. Israel's willing to rent the site to us, but
where are we going to get the forces of Gog and Magog to fight against
the good guys? Everybody's converted. Nobody's willing to fight on the
side of anti-Christ and Satan, That means we got to change the script
again. I don't want to be the one to tell Ellison . . 'Do I have to
think of everything?' De Mille said. 'It's no problem. Just hire actors
to play the villains.' 'I already thought of that. But they want a
bonus. They say they might he persecuted just for playing the guys in
the black hats. They call it the social-stigma bonus. But the guilds
and the unions won't go for it. Equal pay for all extras or no movie
and that's that.' DeMille sighed. 'It won't make any difference anyway
as long as we Can't get Satan to play himself.' The assistant nodded.
So far, they'd been, shooting around the devil's scenes. But they
couldn't put it off much longer. DeMille stood up. 'I have to watch the
auditions for the Great ***** of Babylon.' The field of 100,000
candidates for the rule had been narrowed to a hundred, but from what
he'd heard none of these could play the part. They were all good
Christians now, no matter what they'd been before, and they just
didn't have their hearts in the role. De Mille had intended to cast
his brand new mistress, a starlet, a hot little number if promises
meant anything one hundred per cent right for the part. But just before
they went to bed for the first time, he'd gotten a phone call. 'None of
this hanky panky, C.B.,' God had said. 'You're now a devout worshipper
of Me, one of the lost sheep that's found its way back to the fold. So
get with it, Otherwise, back to Forest Lawn for you, and I use
Griffith.' 'But..', but I'm Cecil B. DeMille! The rules are O.K. for
the common people. but...' 'Throw that scarlet woman out! Shape up or
ship out! If you marry her, fine! But remember, there'll be no more
divorces!' DeMille was glum. Eternity was going to he like living
forever next door to the Board ol' Censors. The next day, his
secretary, very excited, buzzed him. 'Mr De Mille ! Satan's here! I
don't have him for an appointment, but he says he's always had a
long-standing one with you!' Demoniac laughter bellowed through the
intercom. 'CB, my boy! I've changed my mind! I tried out anonymously
for the part, but your *****-head assistant said I wasn't the type for
the role! So I've come to you! I can start work as soon as we sign the
contract!' The contract, however, was not the one the great director
had in mind. Satan, smoking a big cigar, chuckling, cavorting, read the
terms. 'And don't worry about signing in your blood. It's unsanitary.
Just ink in your John Henry, and all's well that end in Hell.' 'You get
my soul,' DeMille said weakly. 'It's not much of a bargain for me. But
if you don't sign it, you won't get me. Without me, the movie's a bomb.
Ask the producer, He'll tell you how it is.' 'I'll call Him now.' No!
Sign now, this very second, or I walk out forever!' DeMille bowed his
head, more in pain than in prayer. 'Now!'
DeMille wrote on the dotted line. There had never been any genuine
indecision. After all, he was a film director. After snickering Satan
had left, De Mille punched a phone number. The circuits transmitted
this to a station which beamed the pulses up to a satellite which
transmitted these directly to the heavenly city. Somehow, he got a
wrong number. He hung up quickly when Israfel, the angel of death,
answered. The second attempt, he got through. 'Your Divinity, I
suppose You know what I just did? It was the only way we could get him
to play himself. You understand that, don't You?' 'Yes, but if you're
thinking of breaking the contract or getting Me to do it for you,
forget it. What kind of an image would I have f I did something
unethical like that? But not to worry. He can't get his hooks into your
soul until I say so.
Not to worry? DeMille thought. I'm the one who's going to Hell, not
Him. 'Speaking of hooks, let Me remind you of a clause in your
contract. with The Studio. If you ever fall from grace, and I'm not
talking about that little bimbo you were going to make your mistress,
you'll die. The Mafia isn't the only one that puts out a contract.
Capice?' DeMille, sweating and cold, hung up. In a sense, he was
already in Hell all his life with no women except for one wife'? It was
bad enough to have no variety, but what if
whomever he married cut him off, like one of his wives what was her
name? - had done? Moreover, he couldn't get loaded out of his skull
even to forget his marital woes. God, though not prohibiting booze
in His Book, had said that moderation in strong liquor was required and
no excuses. Well, maybe he could drink beer, however disgustingly
plebeian that was. He wasn't even happy with his work now. He just
didn't get the respect he had in the old days. When he chewed out the
camera people, the grips, the gaffers, the actors, they stormed hack at
him that he didn't have the proper Christian humility, he was too high
and mighty, too arrogant. God would get him if he didn't watch his big
fucking mouth.
This left him speechless and quivering, He'd always thought, and
acted accordingly, that the director, not God, was God, He remembered
telling Charlton Heston that when Heston, who after all was only Moses,
had thrown a tantrum when he'd stepped in a pile of camel ***** during
the filming of The Ten Commandments. Was there more to the making of
the end-of the-world than appeared on the surface? Had God seemingly
forgiven everybody their sins and lack of faith but as subtly, even
insidiously, making everybody pay by suffering? Had He forgiven but not
forgotten? Or vice
versa? God marked even the fall of a sparrow, though why the sparrow,
a notoriously obnoxious and dirty bird, should be significant in God's
eye was beyond DeMille. He had the uneasy feeling that everything
wasn't as simple and as obvious as he'd thought when he'd been untimely
ripped from the grave in a sort of Caesarian section and carried off
like a nursing baby in Gabriel's arms to the office of The Ultimate
Producer. From the Playboy Interview feature, December, 1990.
Playboy: Mr Satan, why did you decide to play yourself after all?
Satan: Damned if I know. Playboy: The rumours are that you'll be
required to wear clothes in the latter-day scenes but that you
steadfastly refuse. Are these rumours true? Satan: Yes indeed.
Everybody knows I never wear clothes except when I want to appear among
humans attracting clothes it'd unrealistic. It'd be phony, though God
knows there are
fake things in this movie. The Producer says this is going to be a PG
picture, nut an X-rated. That's why I walked off the set the other day.
My lawyers are negotiating with the studio now about this. But you can
bet your ***** that I won't go back unless things go my way, the right
way. After all, I am an artist, and I have my integrity. Tell me, if
you had a prong this size, would you hide it? Playboy: The Chicago
cops would arrest me before I got a block from my pad. I don't know,
though, if they'd charge me with indecent exposure or being careless
with a natural resource. Satan: They wouldn't dare arrest me. I got too
much on the city administration. Playboy: That's same whopper. But I
thought angels were
sexless. You are a fallen angel, aren't you? Satan: You jerk! What
kind of researcher are you? Right
there in the Bible, Genesis 6:2, it says that the sons of God, that
is, the angel, took the daughters of men as wives and had children by
them. You think the kids were test tube babies? Also, you dunce, I
refer you to Jude ' where it's said that the angels, like Sodomite's,
committed fornication's and followed unnatural lusts. Playboy: Whew!
That brimstone! There's no teed to get so hot under the collar, Mr
Satan. I only converted a few years ago. I haven't had much chance to
read the Bible. Satan: I read the Bible every day. All of it. I'm a
speed reader, you know. Playboy: You read the Bible? (Pause.) Hee,
hee! Do you read it for the same reason W. C. Fields did when he was
dying? 84 Satan: What's that? Playboy: Looking for loopholes. DeMille
was in a satellite and supervising the camera people while they shot
the takes from ten miles up. He didn't like at all the terrific
pressure he was working under. There was no chance to shoot every scene
three or four times to get the best angle. Or to re shoot if the actors
blew their lines. And, oh, sweet Jesus, they were blowing them all over
the world! He mopped his bald head, 'I don't care what The Producer
says We have to retake at least a thousand scenes. And we've a million
miles of film to go yet!' They were getting close to the end of the
breaking-of. the-seven-seals sequences. The Lamb, played by The
Producer's Son, had just broken the sixth seal. The violent worldwide
earthquake had gone well. The sun-hurtling- black-as-a-funeral-pall had
been a breeze. But the moon-all-red-as-blood had had some colour
problems. The rushes looked more like Colonel Sanders' orange juice
than hemoglobin. In De Mille's opinion the stars-falling-to
earth-like-frogs-shaken- down-by-a gale scenes had been excellent,
visually speaking. But everybody knew that the stars were not little
blazing stones set in the sky but were colossal balls of atomic fires
each of which was many times
bigger than Earth. Even one of them, a million miles from Earth, would
destroy it. So where was the credibility factor? I don't understand
you, boss,' DeMille's assistant said. 'You didn't worry about
credibility when you made The Ten Commandments. When Heston, I mean,
Moses, parted
the Red Sea, it was the fakiest thing I ever saw. It must've made
unbelievers out of millions of Christians. But the film was a
box-office success.' It was the dancing girls that brought off the
whole thing!' De Mille-screamed. 86 87 'Who cares about all that other
***** when they can see all those beautiful long-legged snatches
twirling their veils!' His secretary floated from her chair. 'I quit,
you male chauvinistic pig! So me and my sisters are just snatches to
you, you bald-headed *****?' His hotline to the heavenly city rang. He
picked up the phone. 'Watch your language!' the Producer thundered. 'if
you step out of line too many times, I'll send you back to the grave!
And Satan gets you right then and there!
Chastened but boiling near the danger point, DeMille got back to
business and called Art in Hollywood. The sweep of the satellite around
Earth included the sky-vanishing-as-a-scroll-is-rolled-up scenes, where
every mountain and island is, removed from its place. The script had
called for a literal removing, the tectonics problem would have been
terrific and perhaps impossible. But in this case the special effects
departments only had to simulate the scenes, Even so, the budget was
strained. However, the Producer, through the unique abilities, was able
to carry these off. Whereas, in the original script, genuine
displacements of Greenland, England, Ireland, Japan, and Madagascar had
been called for, not to mention thousands of smaller islands, these
were only faked. 'Your Divinity, I have some bad news,' Raphael said
The producer was too busy to indulge in talking about something He
already knew. Millions of the faithful had backslid and taken up their
old sinful ways. They believed that since so many events of the
apocalypse were being faked, God must not be capable of making any
really big
catastrophes. So, they didn't have anything to worry about. The
Producer, however, had decided that it would not only be good to wipe
out some of the wicked but it would strengthen the faithful if they
saw that God still had some muscle. 'They'll get the real thing next
time,' He said. 'But we have to give DeMille several millenia, and the
devil makes work for idle hands you know. Haw haw You'll be the chief
director of course. But this is hful,
marking them safe from the burning of a third of Earth, the turning of
a third of the sea to blood along with the sinking of a third of the
ships at sea (which also included the crashing of a third of the
airplanes in the air, something St John had overlooked), the turning of
a third of all water to wormwood (a superfluous measure since a third
was already thoroughly polluted), the failure of a third of daylight,
the release of giant mutant locusts from the abyss, and the release of
poison-gas-breathing mutant horses,
which slew a third of mankind. De Mille was delighted. Never had such
terrifying scenes been filmed. And these were nothing to the plagues
which followed. He had enough film from the cutting room to make a
hundred documentaries after the movie was shown. And then he got a call
from The Producer. 'It's back to the special effects, my boy.' 'But
why, Your Divinity? We still have to shoot the- Great-*****-of-Babylon
sequences, the two-Beasts-and- the-marking-of-the-wicked, the
Mount-Zion-and-The- Lamb with-His-one-hundred-and-forty- thousand-good-
men who haven't had to fend themselves-With-women, the. 'Because there
aren't any wicked left by now, you dolt! And not too many of the good,
either!' 'That couldn't be helped,' DeMille said. 'Those
gas-breathing, scorpion-tailed horses kind of got out of hand. But we
just have to have the scenes where the rest of' mankind that survives
the plagues still doesn't abjure its worship of idols and doesn't
repent of its murders, sorcery, fornication's, and robberies.' 'Rewrite
the script.' 'Ellison will quit' for sure this time. 'That's all right.
I already have some hack from Peoria lined up to take his place. And
cheaper, too.' DeMille took his outfit, one hundred thousand strong, to
the heavenly city. Here they shot the war between Satan and his demons
and Michael and his angels. This was not in the chronological sequence
as written by St John. But the logistics problems were so tremendous
that it was thought best to film these out of order. Per the rewritten
script, Satan and his host were defeated. but a lot of non-belligerents
were casualties, including DeMille's best camera person. Moreover,
there was-a delay in production when Satan insisted that a stunt person
do the part where he was hurled from heaven to Earth,
'Or use a dummy!' he veiled. 'Twenty thousand miles is a hell of a long
way to fall! If I'm hurt badly I might not be able to finish the
movie!' The screaming match between the director and Satan
took place on the edge of the city. The Producer, unnoticed, came up
behind Satan and kicked him from the city for the second time in their
relationship with bitter ruin and furious combustion.
Shrieking, 'I'll sue! Ill sue!' Satan fell towards the planet below.
He made a fine spectacle in his blazing entrance into the atmosphere,
but the people on Earth paid it little attention. They were used to
fiery portents in interrupting De Mille's gloomy thoughts. 'When the
second resurrection takes place, there won't be even Standing Room Only
on Earth. That's why I'm dissolving the old earth and making a new one.
But I can't just duplicate the old Earth. The problem of Lebensraum
would still remain. Now, what I'm contemplating is a Dyson sphere.'
What's that?' 'A scheme by a 20th-century mathematician to break up
the giant planet Jupiter into large pieces and set them in orbit at the
distance of Earth from the sun. The surfaces of the pieces would
provide room for a population enormously larger than Earth's. It's a
Godlike concept.' 'What a documentary its filming would be!' DeMille
said. 'Of course,, if we could write some love interest in it,
we could make a he.. . pardon me, a heaven of a good story!' God looked
at his big railroad watch,
'I have another appointment, C.B. The conference is over.' DeMille
said goodbye and walked dejectedly towards the door. He still hadn't
gotten an answer about his ultimate fate. God was stringing him along.
He felt that he wouldn't know until the last minute what was going to
happen to him. He'd be suffering a thousand years of uncertainty, of
mental torture. His life would be a cliff-hanger. Will God relent? Or
will He save the hero at the very last second? 'C.B.,' God said. De
Mille spun around, his heart thudding, his knees turned to water. Was
this it? The fatal finale? Had God, in His mysterious and subtle way,
decided lbr some reason that there'd be no Continued In Next Chapter
for him? It didn't seem likely, but then The Producer had never
promised that He'd use him as the director of Part II nor had He signed
a contract with him. Maybe, like so many, temperamental producers, He'd
suddenly concluded that
De Mille wasn't the right one for the job. Which meant that He could
arrange it so that his ex-director would be thrown now, right this
minute, into the lake of fire. God said, 'I can't break your contract
with Satan So.' 'Yes?' DeMille's voice sounded to him as if he were
speaking very far away. 'Satan can't have your soul until you die.'
'Yes" His voice was only a trickle of sound, a last few drops of
water from a clogged drainpipe. 'So, if you don't die, and that, of
course, depends upon your behaviour, Satan can't ever have your soul.'
God smiled and said, 'See you in eternity.'
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11 Apr 2005 05:25:42 AM |
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foxtel will probably pick it up in Oz.....
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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| User: "" |
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11 Apr 2005 08:33:36 AM |
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Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
Tony
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| User: "tw" |
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11 Apr 2005 08:34:43 AM |
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<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
Isn't that always the way with Hollywood films? you want authenticity, you
have to let Europeans do it..
Tony
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| User: "Dani" |
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12 Apr 2005 08:26:38 PM |
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:34:43 +0200, "tw" <no@no.com> wrote:
you want authenticity, you have to let Europeans do it..
Does the same go for sex?
LOL!
(sorry, I couldn't resist :)
Dani
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| User: "tw" |
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14 Apr 2005 02:39:40 AM |
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"Dani" <dani7200@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:34:43 +0200, "tw" <no@no.com> wrote:
you want authenticity, you have to let Europeans do it..
Does the same go for sex?
Absolutely! It is a proven fact that even in their own bedrooms, Americans
don't have authentic sex ;-)
LOL!
(sorry, I couldn't resist :)
Dani
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13 Apr 2005 04:30:59 PM |
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*HIS* "ELECT" "WROTE":
*SORRY* "EVE" *COULD* "NOT" *RESIST* "EITHER" *AND* *GUESS* "WHAT"
*HAPPENED* "TO" *HER*???
*TOMORROW* "IS" *ONLY* "A" *DREAM*, "YESTERDAY" *IS* "HISTORY" *AND*
"TODAY" *IS* "ALL" *WE* "REALLY" *HAVE* "UNLESS" *GOD* "IS" *WILLING*
"TO" *GRANT* "US" *MORE* "TIME"!!!
*IN* "THE" *ESSENCE* "OF" *GOOD* "FAITH" *I* "IMPLORE" *YOU* "TO" *BE*
"OF" *GOOD* "STANDING" *WITH* "THE" *LIFE* "YOU" *HAVE* "IN" *THE*
"KINGDOM" *OF* "THE" *HONORABLE* "JUDGE" *AND* "LORD" *GOD*
"ALMIGHTY"!!!
I Bid *ALL* Peace...
*HIS* "ELECT" *IS* "TRYING" *TO* "GET" *YOU* "STIRRED" *CLEAR* "OF"
*DESTROYING* "YOUR" *ONE* "AND" *ONLY* "LIFE"!!!
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| User: "Perseid" |
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14 Apr 2005 01:48:04 PM |
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Spat the Words
LightWeight. The group trembles at your capital letters.
*HIS* "ELECT" "WROTE":
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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11 Apr 2005 05:01:24 PM |
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wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!? It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
They're actually advertising this in the theatres, like a coming
attraction. Ha! I'll probably watch it, if I remember. I watch all
those dumb disaster things on TV - they're hilarious!
Woods
Tony
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| User: "" |
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12 Apr 2005 09:32:14 AM |
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Woods wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Tony
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| User: "tw" |
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12 Apr 2005 09:38:32 AM |
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<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking what? It's
like arguing whether superman's tights shoudl be blue or red.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Have you ever READ revelations? It IS campy fun, reads liek the ravings of a
crazed street-bum with a head full of acid...
Tony
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| User: "" |
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13 Apr 2005 10:15:04 AM |
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Tommy The Fag wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking what?
There you go again insulting peoplesreligions, something you just lied
about not doing several times over the last few days.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Have you ever READ revelations?
Uh, do you mean The Book Of Revelation?
t IS campy fun, reads liek the ravings of a
crazed street-bum with a head full of acid...
Only to some fool who hasn't read the rest of the Bible.
Tony
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| User: "tw" |
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| Title: Re: TV Series "Revelations" is puer BS |
13 Apr 2005 10:17:19 AM |
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<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113405190.2bb5c7ee60c9054ae7c484284192af5f@teranews...
Tommy The Fag wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking what?
There you go again insulting peoplesreligions, something you just lied
about not doing several times over the last few days.
Try and keep up bitchtits, I'm not insulting it, merely pointing out what it
is. Besides, your accusation was that I expressed hatred.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Have you ever READ revelations?
Uh, do you mean The Book Of Revelation?
Yes.
t IS campy fun, reads liek the ravings of a
crazed street-bum with a head full of acid...
Only to some fool who hasn't read the rest of the Bible.
...large portions of which also read like the ravings of a goat on
amphetamines.
Tony
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| User: "" |
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15 Apr 2005 06:32:37 AM |
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Tommy The Gay Transexual wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113405190.2bb5c7ee60c9054ae7c484284192af5f@teranews...
Tommy The Fag wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking what?
There you go again insulting peoplesreligions, something you just lied
about not doing several times over the last few days.
I'm not insulting it, merely pointing out what it
is.
You calling it a fantasy is an insult to ever believer, you don't even
have the brains to realize that.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Have you ever READ revelations?
Uh, do you mean The Book Of Revelation?
Yes.
The say so, don't come up with some dimwitted comment like
"Have you ever read revelations?"
t IS campy fun, reads liek the ravings of a
crazed street-bum with a head full of acid...
Only to some fool who hasn't read the rest of the Bible.
..large portions of which also read like the ravings of a goat on
amphetamines.
More insults toward any Bible believeing person, yet Tommy The Queer
is too stupid to realize that is what he is doing.
Tony
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| User: "tw" |
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| Title: Re: TV Series "Revelations" is puer BS |
15 Apr 2005 06:33:55 AM |
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<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113564638.5425e3aabe02abd37bb872d29af76360@teranews...
Tommy The Gay Transexual wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113405190.2bb5c7ee60c9054ae7c484284192af5f@teranews...
Tommy The Fag wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole
thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking what?
There you go again insulting peoplesreligions, something you just lied
about not doing several times over the last few days.
I'm not insulting it, merely pointing out what it
is.
You calling it a fantasy is an insult to ever believer,
That's their problem. Is it unsulting to young children to tell them Santa
is a fantasy?
you don't even
have the brains to realize that.
Try again bitchtits, your accusation was that I expressed hatred.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Have you ever READ revelations?
Uh, do you mean The Book Of Revelation?
Yes.
The say so, don't come up with some dimwitted comment like
"Have you ever read revelations?"
What ARE you on about, bitchtits?
t IS campy fun, reads liek the ravings of a
crazed street-bum with a head full of acid...
Only to some fool who hasn't read the rest of the Bible.
..large portions of which also read like the ravings of a goat on
amphetamines.
More insults toward any Bible believeing person, yet Tommy The Queer
is too stupid to realize that is what he is doing.
Try again bitchtits, your accusation was that I expressed hatred. If I tell
children the tooth fairy is just a story is that expressing hatred for
children?
Tony
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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| Title: Re: TV Series "Revelations" is puer BS |
15 Apr 2005 05:17:14 PM |
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wrote:
Tommy The Gay Transexual wrote:
< > wrote in message
news:1113405190.2bb5c7ee60c9054ae7c484284192af5f@teranews...
Tommy The Fag wrote:
< > wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking what?
There you go again insulting peoplesreligions, something you just lied
about not doing several times over the last few days.
I'm not insulting it, merely pointing out what it
is.
You calling it a fantasy is an insult to ever believer, you don't even
have the brains to realize that.
Your faith can't be very strong if you're so easily insulted.
Woods
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| User: "WH" |
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| Title: Re: TV Series "Revelations" is puer BS |
16 Apr 2005 06:20:23 AM |
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wrote:
Tommy The Gay Transexual wrote:
< > wrote in message
news:1113405190.2bb5c7ee60c9054ae7c484284192af5f@teranews...
Tommy The Fag wrote:
< > wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in
Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail
fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole
thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking
what?
There you go again insulting peoplesreligions, something you just
lied
about not doing several times over the last few days.
I'm not insulting it, merely pointing out what it
is.
You calling it a fantasy is an insult to ever believer, you don't
even
have the brains to realize that.
You insult every Muslim in the world umpteen times a day pantyboy, but
you're not joking!
So what if TW has a little joke about your fairy tale book? Don't you
'wonderful, care for humanity Christians' have a sense of humour or
what.
WH
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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| Title: Re: TV Series "Revelations" is puer BS |
12 Apr 2005 09:57:20 AM |
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tw wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking what? It's
like arguing whether superman's tights shoudl be blue or red.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Have you ever READ revelations? It IS campy fun, reads liek the ravings of a
crazed street-bum with a head full of acid...
Mushrooms more like. It was a known practise on the island of Patmos
where John had his "revelations". As the Greeks referred to them...
broma theon, food of the Gods.
-A
Tony
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| User: "tw" |
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13 Apr 2005 03:27:17 AM |
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"Absolute Zero" <amycaton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d3gnj3$kdq$4@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
tw wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1113316230.bfe9494d503851834d3dde1cd9e0b09d@teranews...
Woods wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
So they replpaced one lot of fantasy with another, so fucking what? It's
like arguing whether superman's tights shoudl be blue or red.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Have you ever READ revelations? It IS campy fun, reads liek the ravings
of a
crazed street-bum with a head full of acid...
Mushrooms more like. It was a known practise on the island of Patmos
where John had his "revelations".
I thought I recognised a kind of gonzo meter in the prose. Mind you, I'd be
right in saying most religion quite clearly has basis in some sort of
altered mental state be it brought about by starving yourself, humming for
hours, hanging yourself off hooks, finding the nearest psylocibin-rich plant
etc, I think. Must say the eucharist took on a whole different aspect for me
after about 1989 (where else, other than church, were people getting a
tremendous feeling of communion after taking little white round sacraments?
;-))
As the Greeks referred to them...
broma theon, food of the Gods.
What with madness -and genius - being a result of the Gods touching you,
right?
-A
Tony
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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13 Apr 2005 09:14:50 AM |
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tw wrote:
"Absolute Zero" <amycaton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
tw wrote:
crazed street-bum with a head full of acid...
Mushrooms more like. It was a known practise on the island of Patmos
where John had his "revelations".
I thought I recognised a kind of gonzo meter in the prose.
Hunter S Thompson = later day John of Patmos...
Fear and loathing in Palestine ;)
Mind you, I'd be
right in saying most religion quite clearly has basis in some sort of
altered mental state be it brought about by starving yourself, humming for
hours, hanging yourself off hooks, finding the nearest psylocibin-rich plant
etc, I think. Must say the eucharist took on a whole different aspect for me
after about 1989 (where else, other than church, were people getting a
tremendous feeling of communion after taking little white round sacraments?
;-))
Manna from heaven, possibly. Psylocibin isn't only noted in Wales.
http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=10494
There's plenty of archeological etc evidence of 'shroom use in the holy
land. As you can see in the following link, they grow 'em big in Israel.
http://www.phoons.com/mushroom.html
We also know with certainty that the Egyptians used various
psychedelics... not to re-iterate my ideas on Moses.
As the Greeks referred to them... broma theon, food of the Gods.
What with madness -and genius - being a result of the Gods touching you,
right?
Right.
This news of proto-Christian dopeheads should cheer Tony greatly ;)
-A
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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| Title: Re: TV Series "Revelations" is puer BS |
13 Apr 2005 05:22:15 PM |
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wrote:
Woods wrote:
wrote:
Nothing Biblical about this TV series, the Liberals in Hollywood
butchered the Book of Revelation in this movie.
You didn't actually expect accuracy and attention to detail fro
Hollyweird, did you?!?
No, but it would have been nice if they had gotten some decent
consultants for the movie instead of just butchering the whole thing.
I doubt that they'd be able to find 3 theologians/scholars who would
agree on the details, though. Each Christian sect has its own idea of
what will happen during the End Times, and they are not all in agreement.
It's just campy fun to them, same as a Freddie
movie.
Unfortunately.
Well, better than more crime action stuff about the underworld.
Woods
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: TV Series "Revelations" is puer BS |
15 Apr 2005 10:12:32 PM |
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I doubt that they'd be able to find 3 theologians/scholars who would
agree on the details, though. Each Christian sect has its own idea of
what will happen during the End Times, and they are not all in
agreement.
The real problem with the thoelogians is they basically mouth the same
orthodoxy, only each sect etc is at the front seat as the chosen, and
all else are the lost.
Never get to heaven if you...
LB
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