Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Persian Eschatology

The program describes in glowing terms the messianic age to be inaugurated by the Mahdi. He is to begin his uprising in Mecca, and then march on Iraq, where he will establish his "seat of world government" in the city of Kufa and subjugate the current world powers. This will be an age of unparalleled happiness; there will be completely new technologies at mankind’s disposal, and "corruption, war, and rebellion will no longer exist." Neither will "liberal democratic civilization."

- Sweetness & Light

Heh. Those pesky Persians just never give up.

This Mahdi is sort of like The Great White Buffalo?

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