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China has arrested nearly 1,000 people in a crackdown on a Christian sect that spread doomsday rumours and targeted communist rule, state media said on Thursday ahead of the supposedly Mayan-foretold apocalypse.
The Christian-inspired group "Almighty God" has been accused of spreading doomsday rumours apparently linked to the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar and urging followers to slay the "red dragon" of communism, state media reports said.
Close to 1,000 followers of the sect, which state-run media labels an "evil cult" -- the same description it applies to the banned Falun Gong group -- have been held in a nationwide crackdown that began last week, state-run CCTV reported.
Police detained more than 350 Almighty God members in the southwestern province of Guizhou, while in the northwestern province of Qinghai more than 400 were held for "gathering unlawfully", the Beijing Times reported.
Smaller numbers have been held in other areas across the country.
Almighty God predicts that three days of darkness will begin on Friday, and has called on its members to overthrow China's ruling Communist Party, which it refers to as "the big red dragon", the state-run Global Times reported.
It has also told believers that a new era presided over by a "female Jesus" has arrived and that tsunamis and earthquakes will rock the world, the Global Times said.
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You aint seen nothin yet!!
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It has also told believers that a new era presided over by a "female Jesus" has arrived and that tsunamis and earthquakes will rock the world, the Global Times said.
Originally posted by Noinoi
I was talking to my GF yesterday (who is Chinese ) about the arrests you mentioned. Apparently the Chinese Gov aren't to fussed with the fact they're obsessed with 2012, it's more the fact they're promoting members to "rise up" and overthrow the Chinese government, and replace it with their view of a "Christian" government.
On a lighter note however, I did read about a restaurant in Hong Kong that is telling it's patrons that a $600+ AUD meal will be on the house, unless they are still alive after midnight. Haha. that's neat
Female Jesus?
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
We should get used to this over the next day or two...
2012 Mania!
Soooo, when is the next gloom and doom date supposed to be?
Originally posted by snarky412
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
We should get used to this over the next day or two...
2012 Mania!
It will be quiet after this date passes...
Other than the "I told you so" threads for a few days after.
Soooo, when is the next gloom and doom date supposed to be?
Don't be so hasty friend. There's always the chain movers to give us a new date. And I recall a thread after the London Olympics in which the poster claimed that his own hard work and the diligence of others averted the NWO attack during the games.
Combine those two groups of people and I think we can eek out some more life for this thing.
Originally posted by snarky412
Oh goody.......
Then I better keep the beer and pizza coming...
Some of those threads do offer a fair amount of entertainment if nothing else.
Hate to say it, but I am anxious to see what the first few threads/comments on Dec. 22nd will be!!
As with CorruptionExposed, there will be many nursing a severe hangover.....
The "EOTWAWKI" hangover because the EOTWAWKI never happened.
Originally posted by Apocryphon
Cult: noun. Any group of people who espouse views you personally disagree with.
Cult
noun
1. a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
3. the object of such devotion.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5. Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.