December 22, 2012

Jesus Knows, Flooding Isn't the Apocalypse

Andrew Brown, The Guardian

With lots of flooding predicted for Christmas, it may be comforting to know that we have the authority of Jesus that this isn't a sign of the apocalypse. The whole point, he thought, was that there would be no small signs, only huge ones, written across the whole sky:

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