Ahmedinijad is sure going to look silly when he finds out he’s been praying next to the wrong well all these years.

Back in the mid-1800s the Millerite Movement predicted the exact date of the return of Christ & thousands of people sold their belongings and camped in fields waiting the return. I don’t remember, how did that work out for them?

When I lived in Florida there was a guy driving a minivan all painted up with the exact date of the return, that day came & went & if the rapture did occur none of my neighbors went and the media didn’t cover it.

But recently it seems as if other religions have been joining in the fun; is end time hysteria contagious? There seems to be a lot of it going around.

so i guess now it’s a race between the hidden imam and jesus.

wonder what the vegas odds are

http://www.juancole.com/2011/05/jahanpour-is-iran-next-supreme-leader-versus-ahmadinejad.html

I think I understand that both sides (President Ahmadinejad versus Supreme Leader Khamene’i) want to be seen as being true to the Hidden Imam – but the details are the “local politics.”

From the piece on Prof. Cole’s blog:

“A few weeks ago, a series of documentary films were released called “The Reappearance is Near.” The films referred to the reappearance of the Hidden Imam who according to the Shi’is went into hiding as a child and who will return in the Last Days to crush the enemies of Islam and to establish a reign of justice and peace. A number of people will supposedly accompany the Hidden Imam on his return. The films openly stated that President Ahmadinejad is the embodiment of Shu’ayb bin Salih, one of the saintly figures who will accompany the Hidden Imam. This would give the president a special place above all the ruling clerics as a special companion of the Hidden Imam. In fact, the president frequently takes the entire cabinet to pray next to a well near Qom, from where the Hidden Imam is supposed to emerge. He also starts all his speeches, including the ones that he has delivered at the United Nations, with a prayer for the speedy return of the Hidden Imam.

Those films have understandably created a great deal of controversy among the clerics who see Ahmadinejad usurping their privileged spiritual position, as the true representatives of the Hidden Imam and the interpreters of Islamic teachings. Masha’i [a relative and ally of President Ahmadinejad] has been accused of having been the mastermind behind the creation of those films, a charge that he has denied. However, during the past few days, some of those who were involved in the production of the film have been arrested and accused of spreading superstition and undermining the position of the Hidden Imam.”

I’d love to point and mock Iran for this, but as we all know, “End Times” superstition is a big part of US politics.

I would further argue that anyone not currently charged with having a genie probably has a genie protecting them from being charged & should be arrested immediately!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin

Hmmm….I wonder if the previous name of the country was Persia…. now that would just be blasphemy…