End times ‘expert’ says Pope Francis is cryptically warning us that the apocalypse is almost here

[DonViejo]

Pope Francis recently suggested his reign as pontiff would be brief, setting off speculation by apocalypse watchers that his comments refer to prophetic warnings about the end times.

“It is a vague feeling I have that the Lord chose me for a short mission,” the pope said. “I am always open to that possibility.” He said in another interview this month that he’s aware of assassination threats against him, but – if so – the pope said he has prayed that his death would be quick and painless.

“Life is in God’s hands,” Francis said. “But if it is your will that I die or something happens to me, I ask you only one favor: that it doesn’t hurt. Because I am a real wimp when it comes to physical pain.”

Tom Horn, author of the 2012 book “Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here,” told World Net Daily the pontiff’s comments suggest that he may see himself as the last pope — as foretold in St. Malachy’s “Prophecy of the Popes.”

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[trotsky]

1. LOL

World Nut Daily?

[immoderate]

2. .

--imm

[BlueJazz]

3. They come up with this crap every year or two. Since we've entered the modern age, the earth...

...has ended somewhere about 417 times.

[Warpy]

4. Yeah, just like every Pope before him.

I don't know why right wing religious nuts want the world blown up, but it seems like they'll take it any way they can get it.

[SheilaT]

5. Personally, I'm quite tired of having

predictions of THE END IS NEAR!!! every couple of months or so.

I've been reading or hearing this stuff for over 50 years now, and it gets old.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. Personally I am staunchly IN FAVOR

of the rapture. The extinction of assholes? Where do I go to make this happen?

[SheilaT]

11. LOL!

Unfortunately, only some of the End Times idiots are talking about the Rapture, where the True Believers will be whisked away, leaving us unsaved, atheists, Jews, etc. to wallow in our misery. Yeah, a lot will be better without them, but all too often I see predictions of the apocalypse or nuclear war or the complete collapse of civilization that will supposed affect us all.

Even climate change, as real as it is, isn't going to be that sort of immediate doomsday scenario.

[Kelvin Mace]

6. In 1970 Hal Lindsey wrote

"The Late, Great Planet Earth" and pretty much said in interviews that the game would be over within a generation of Israel becoming a nation. He then said a generation meant "40 years".

So, Jesus is 27 year overdue.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. "Because I am a real wimp when it comes to physical pain.” That's interesting, coming from pope

punch-you-in-the-face Francis.

"By way of example, he referred to Alberto Gasbarri, who organizes papal trips and was standing by his side aboard the papal plane.

“If my good friend Dr. Gasbarri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch,” Francis said half-jokingly, throwing a mock punch his way.
"

[okasha]

12. Somehow I don't think "put a wrench in their face"

AC has room to criticize here.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Don't put shit in quotes unless you're actually quoting someone.

[okasha]

15. Your post #13

in the "What's wrong with proseletyzing?" thread.

And you're right, expressing willingness to use potentially deadly force against a door-to-door missionary is pretty shitty.

[AtheistCrusader]

16. I don't like it when people walk inside part of my home without permission.

'potentially deadly' lol.

I suppose if there was something on the car or truck that used a 50mm wrench.

[cbayer]

8. There are "end times experts"?

He was clearly talking about his personal death, but if World Nut Daily sees it as a Prophecy, then it must be true.

[okasha]

13. There's a full solar eclipse

upcoming on the Equinox. That should set them off, too.

[cbayer]

17. Arghhh!!! Run for the hills.

[okasha]

18. AC now has a thread on the subject.

You heard it here first!

[cbayer]

19. In religion?

I love a solar eclipse and am going to look into.


edited to add: not visible here at all, so I guess we are safe…..

for now!

[notadmblnd]

10. I can see this going the same way it did last end time. And the end time before that and the end

before that and the end time before that and the end time before that and the end time before that and the end time before.........