{"id":9174,"date":"2014-04-16T23:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T23:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2014-04-16T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T23:21:27","slug":"apocalypse-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/apocalypse-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Socorro, NM, May 95 (photo AS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS.jpg 2030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here\u2019s a happy reminder that the Middle Ages, as that old crank Carl Jung once wrote, \u201clive on&#8230; merrily\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/religion\/blood-moon-sets-off-apocalyptic-debate-among-some-christians\/2014\/04\/15\/00b76502-c4be-11e3-9ee7-02c1e10a03f0_story.html?hpid=z5\"> has the glorious details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could a series of \u201cblood moon\u201d events be connected to Jesus\u2019 return? Some Christians think so. In the wee hours of Tuesday (April 15) morning, the moon slid into Earth\u2019s shadow, casting a reddish hue on the moon. There are about two lunar eclipses per year, according to NASA, but what\u2019s unusual this time around is that there will be four blood moons within 18 months \u2014 astronomers call that a tetrad \u2014 and all of them occur during Jewish holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Could a series of \u201cblood moon\u201d events be connected to Jesus\u2019 return? Some Christians think so.<\/p>\n<p>In the wee hours of Tuesday (April 15) morning, the moon slid into Earth\u2019s shadow, casting a reddish hue on the moon. There are about two lunar eclipses per year, according to NASA, but what\u2019s unusual this time around is that there will be four blood moons within 18 months \u2014 astronomers call that a tetrad \u2014 and all of them occur during Jewish holidays\u2026.This time, Hagee suggests that a Rapture will occur where Christians will be taken to heaven, Israel will go to war in a great battle called Armageddon, and Jesus will return to earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Going to be quite a year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a happy reminder that the Middle Ages, as that old crank Carl Jung once wrote, \u201clive on&#8230; merrily\u201d. The Washington Post has the glorious details: Could a series of \u201cblood moon\u201d events be connected to Jesus\u2019 return? Some Christians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/apocalypse-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[511,351,1071],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9177,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}