Spiritual Warfare: Everybody's Feeling Mahdi Big

Oh goodie - the End Times Christians are watching the End Times Islamists, and guess what? The End Times are coming!:

New evidence has emerged that the Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a signal that the Mahdi--or Islamic messiah--is about to appear.

CBN News has obtained a never-before-seen video produced by the Iranian regime that says all the signs are moving into place -- and that Iran will soon help usher in the end times.

While the revolutionary movements gripping the Middle East have created uncertainty throughout the region, the video shows that the Iranian regime believes the chaos is divine proof that their ultimate victory is at hand.

As Elvis Costello said in the song Waiting For The End Of The World, "Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're comin' 'cause ya done really started something!"

Wow: Religion Is SOooo Exciting!

“Critics in Iran – many of them clerics – charge that Ahmadinejad's conviction that the 'end of times' is near has brought Iran dangerously close to war with the US and Israel.

'Nothing connects with the audience like the vocabulary of imminence,' says Kurt Anders Richardson, an expert on Shiite theology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. 'It's great to live with imminence if you believe. It changes everything: it supercharges politics, it supercharges ethics and collective feeling.

'Also it's a great antidote to worldly distractions. Instead of fear instigated by morality police, you have euphoria, a profound enticement,' says Dr. Richardson, speaking in Tehran during a recent conference on Mahdism doctrine. 'Clearly these people are motivated by the belief they will be privileged to see the return of the Mahdi in their lifetime.'

Belief that the 'ultimate savior' will soon return has been a constant theme, both in substance and rumor, since Ahmadinejad became president in 2005. Three years ago, he was quoted telling local officials concerned with overspending: 'Don't worry, Imam [Mahdi] is going to come in two years and all the problems will be solved.'”

-- Scott Peterson, reading the metaphysics, for the metaphysical Christian Science Monitor.