Christian Videos Online brings me to the WLC, World's Last Chance, homepage.
"WLC strives to follow all Biblical truth. The WLC team has made the shocking discovery from the Bible that the seventh-day Sabbath cannot be found except on the Creator's calendar.
In His calendar, the weekly Sabbath always falls on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of each month.
Since the mark of the beast is received if one does not worship the Creator on His true Sabbath day, and because WLC infinitely cares about our salvation and yours, WLC is offering US$1,000,000 (one million) to anyone who can convincingly demonstrate from the Scriptures that the true seventh-day Sabbath has ever been recorded in the Bible to have fallen on any other dates than those listed above."At least they're giving away money, not taking it. The one thing I miss out on for having a personal religion rather than a collective-brain-shutdown is the possibility of making grand, insane social schemes like this. I can't exactly go "Woohoo, Lifestream energy! Let's toss 241 apples in the river to show we honor it, because if you write Lifestream in sixteen languages the letters all add up to 241, and apples are, uh, good!" and expect anyone to come along. You should all join my religion because the spiritual losses I make because of this are sure to harm my immortal soul. If such a thing existed.
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Ah this post is terribly aggressive. "Collective-brain-shutdown" sounds so negative. I should be more politically correct. "A collective agreement to hand over important decisions, personal responsibility and individual thought to an unseen, unknown entity existing only inside the agreement, and claim that a select few within the community selflessly handles these decisions, responsibility and thought for the masses in the name of the entity through different forms of more of less unspecified communication." How's that? Yeah, too long. Collective-brain-shutdown will have to do.
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My instant reaction is that WLC is just a big ruse to make people read the Bible :P
If I ever get an urge to become religious, I promise to check with you first, in case yours is better.
Wait... What calendar is WLC basing this on? If they're using either the Gregorian or the Julian calendar, you get the issue that weekdays don't line up with days of the month - a given 8th can be anything from a Sunday to a Tuesday.
If they're using a lunar month calendar, the weekdays line up with the dates, admittedly, but not with the phases of the moon since each lunar month is about 27.3 days long, meaning you'd eventually wind up with the first of the month occurring when the moon is gibbous or some nonsense like that.
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