{"id":16375,"date":"2012-05-01T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16375"},"modified":"2012-05-01T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:02:15","slug":"the-end-of-the-world-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-end-of-the-world-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the world \u2013 again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doris Rosado watches her teenage daughters, Ninette and Kiara Mongrut, get the numbers \u201c666\u201d tattooed on their wrists, beaming with pride. The number typically conjures up biblical symbolism tied to the Antichrist, but this St. Catharines, Ont., family belongs to a obscure Christian sect for which \u201c666\u201d is a positive symbol of their group\u2019s messianic leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wanted to do it,\u201d Ms. Rosado, 45, said at the St. Catharines tattoo parlour where her daughters were inked. \u201cBut now it\u2019s more important because we\u2019re counting down\u2026 I\u2019m so proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

For this family, and other members of Growing in Grace International, these tattoos are a way of demonstrating their faith as true believers of Jose de Luis de Jesus \u2014 who they fervently believe is the second coming of Jesus Christ \u2014 before a day of reckoning they believe will wipe out most of humanity.<\/p>\n

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To spread the word, Growing in Grace put up billboards in Toronto this week featuring Mr. de Jesus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat day, the body of Jose de Luis de Jesus, who is a human like you and me, his flesh is going to be immortal\u2026. He\u2019s going to be living forever. And that will happen to him, but also his followers.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, said Mr. Poessy: \u201cAll those that are not believers are going to be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing in Grace International is not the first to prognosticate that the so-called end of the world will come this year. The Mayan calendar famously picks Dec. 21, 2012.<\/p>\n

But Mr. de Jesus also predicts that the \u201ctransformation\u201d will endow him, and his loyal followers, with superpowers, such as the ability to fly and walk through walls, said Axel Cooley, the bishop\u2019s daughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is, to use a tired clich\u00e9, a win-win situation: if Mr. de Jesus is wrong \u2013 and I can\u2019t see how a man careless enough to glue two of his fingers to his forehead could be right about the end of the world \u2013 we\u2019ll all still be around on July 1st<\/sup> and his followers will be lined up to have their tattoos removed. If he is right, destruction is a more appetising prospect than seeing Mr. de Jesus flying and walking through walls.<\/p>\n

The added benefit to his being wrong is that, on July 1st<\/sup>, we can all enjoy watching him try out his newly acquired superpowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here: Doris Rosado watches her teenage daughters, Ninette and Kiara Mongrut, get the numbers \u201c666\u201d tattooed on their wrists, beaming with pride. The number typically conjures up biblical symbolism tied to the Antichrist, but this St. Catharines, Ont., family … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[829,958,1516],"class_list":["post-16375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barmy-cults","tag-growing-in-grace","tag-jose-luis-de-jesus","tag-the-end-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}