Blow Dat Horn

Let's waste some more time and effort:

An American pastor who made news in April by studying NASA's eclipse calendar to speculate on the return of Jesus Christ to Earth is now planning a worldwide blast of trumpets this fall to get God's attention.

Good grief. Like the endless slaughter in the Middle East isn't noteworthy enough to do that?

Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Wash., is organizing the global "Day of Shouting" for the evening of Sept. 29, marking the annual biblical holiday known as the Feast of Trumpets. He wants to announce to "Messiah" we are awake and anxiously anticipating His return. Says Biltz:

What a dress rehearsal! Won't that stir His heart?

Wasn't horn blowing in the bible a method used to destroy stuff? Like Joshua and his horn blowers at Jericho? All that blowing caused a big earthquake, or so they claim. Or when an angel called Gabriel blows his horn, it will supposedly mark the beginning of the end for everybody except a few church dignitaries?

This back-woods preacher should be more careful what he wishes for, because in the real world, unintended consequences are always a bitch... Just ask Bush.

Those two guys in the picture? Blowing those those two horns at the ocean? Apparently trying to part the waves, one must suppose. Or maybe a Viking raider ship is approaching the coast.