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Brigid

(17,621 posts) Tue Dec 30, 2014, 12:17 AM Dec 2014

Anybody else catch "Revelation: End of Days" on History?

Most of the material was familiar to me because years ago I knew a lot of people who were into this "end times" stuff. It was much better than those ridiculous Kirk Cameron movies, IMO.

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Anybody else catch "Revelation: End of Days" on History? (Original Post) Brigid Dec 2014 OP

can't remember the last thing I saw on history channel rurallib Dec 2014 #1

Nope sakabatou Dec 2014 #2

That just isn't the impression I'm getting. Brigid Dec 2014 #3

Its Pretty Violent Religious Fundamentalism LarryNM Dec 2014 #4

Not taking it lightly. Brigid Dec 2014 #5

rurallib

(62,411 posts)

1. can't remember the last thing I saw on history channel

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:47 PM

Dec 2014

it is such a gawd awful channel. Almost makes me cry to think what someone intelligent could do with a real history channel.

sakabatou

(42,152 posts)

2. Nope

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:57 PM

Dec 2014

My guess, they're pandering to the fundies.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

3. That just isn't the impression I'm getting.

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 10:27 PM

Dec 2014

Now those Kirk Cameron movies, OTOH . . .

LarryNM

(493 posts)

4. Its Pretty Violent Religious Fundamentalism

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 01:26 AM

Dec 2014

The come-back-to-life "Christian" leader is a definite Joel's Army type. The bad things and bad people are shown to
be in the U.S. "north". The poster for the anti-Christ U.S. President has a familiar look to it, at least I thought it did.
This U.S. President has a "final solution" for those over 70. One thing the film editors missed, or maybe they didn't,
was the "Christian" leader saying in one of his interrupt-the-President's-speeches that "God is with us". (Gott ist mit uns?)
When one of the reporters questions the leader's murderous tendencies, he is told it is necessary. In the end, these
tribulation radical Christians are responsible for bringing about a thousand years of "peace". Sure they will, just like
Isis and al-Qaeda. The Military Industrial Intelligence Complex must love this stuff. I wouldn't take it lightly.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

5. Not taking it lightly.

Reply to LarryNM (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 02:38 AM

Dec 2014

I think this interpretation of Revelation was absolutely fascinating, and not what Christian fundamentalists would have come up with (see the Kirk Cameron version for that). Notice that at the end it was not Christian "terrorists" but ordinary people of whatever (or no) religious background, who had finally had enough, revolted after Doug and the Red Eagles showed Brandon for what he really was.

I don't know how much time and money was put into this production, but I for one give it a definite

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