I just read about a pastor here in Florida, who has “666” tattooed on his arm and claims to be God: link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He knows he’s God, because he has\u00c2\u00a0had a dream in which angels told him that.<\/p>\n

I don’t\u00c2\u00a0quite understand why God needs to be told by angels that he is God, but then, there’s so much that I don’t understand.<\/p>\n

More interesting however is that his “claims of divinity have angered Christian leaders, who say he is a fake<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

And they know this how<\/strong> exactly?<\/p>\n

Didn’t the religious leaders in (the ‘real’) Jesus’\u00c2\u00a0 time say exactly the same thing about Jesus?<\/p>\n

(Oh, and by the way, the usual answer to the question raised in this post’s title is: “about one hundred years”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read about a pastor here in Florida, who has “666” tattooed on his arm and claims to be God: link. He knows he’s God, because he has\u00c2\u00a0had a dream in which angels told him that. I don’t\u00c2\u00a0quite understand why God needs to be told by angels that he is God, but then, there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-religion","category-weird-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}