Pointless Bible Iraq chain email I received today (only 13 of you may read this)

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Following is the entire email. I have no way of knowing if it's all true or not, except actual research (and I sure as hell ain't doing that!). I found it pretty interesting, but I'm not sure why the idiotic chain mail shit is there at the end:

1. The garden of Eden was in Iraq.

2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!

3. Noah built the ark in Iraq.

4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq.

5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq!

6. Isaac's wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq !

7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq.

8. Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq.

9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel.

10. Amos cried out in Iraq!

11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem.

12. Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq!

13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq (Jesus had been
in Iraq also as the fourth person in the fiery furnace!)

14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on the wall" in
Iraq.

15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.

16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq.

17. The wise men were from Iraq.

18. Peter preached in Iraq.

19. The "Empire of Man" described in Revelation is called Babylon,
which was a city in Iraq!

And you have probably seen this one. Israel is the nation most often
mentioned in the Bible. But do you know which nation is second? It is
Iraq! However, that is not the name that is used in the Bible. The
names used in the Bible are Babylon, Land ofShinar, and Mesopotamia.
The word Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly between
the Tigris and ! Euphrates Rivers. The name Iraq, means country with
deep roots.

Indeed Iraq is a country with deep roots and is a very significa nt
country in the Bible.

No other nation, except Israel, has more history and prophecy
associated with it than Iraq.

And also... This is something to think about! Since America is
typically represented by an eagle. Saddam should have read up on his
Muslim passages...

The following verse is from the Koran, (the Islamic Bible)

Koran (9:11) - For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a
fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the
lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair
still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of
Allah; and there was peace.

(Note the verse number!) Hmmmmmmm?! God Bless you all Amen !

I BETTER NOT HEA R OF ANYONE BREAKING THIS ONE OR SEE DELETED This is a
ribbon for soldiers fighting in Iraq. Pass it on to everyone and pray.
Something good will happen to you tonight at 11:11 PM This is not a
joke. Some one will either call you or will talk to you online and say
that they love you. Do not break this chain. Send this to 13 people in
the next 15 minutes. Go.

― Superstitious Idiot, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

A lot of it is true, with one big proviso: there was no such place as "Iraq" until the 20th century, when the Ottoman empire fell apart.

17 I'm not convinced about. 19 isn't exactly true: the Revelation says Babylon, but is generally assumed to have been talking about Rome, using "Babylon" as a metaphor for "evil pagan metropolis".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

And, I should say, "true" in the sense of "the Bible says this happened", not "this did actually happen". The Tower of Babel, story, for example, was supposedly inspired by the sight of ruined Mesopotamian ziggurats. It didn't actually happen, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

1. The garden of Eden was in Iraq.

I'm pretty sure there's no mention of it's location in the bible. As for Mesopotamia and Babylon, they were indeed located in the area where the current state of Iraq is, and it's quite logical that they're mentioned often in the Old Testament, what with them being the leading kingdoms of the era. I'm not sure if all those Bible references are true though. Also, obviously Iraq of today has little to do with the ancient cultures in that area, and it's borders (like most other in Middle East) were drawn by European colonialists that once occupied the area.

The Koran "quote" is absolut bullshit:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/quran911.asp

(xx-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:25 (twenty years ago)

LOL HOW STUPID! Thank goodies I'm not the sort to forward emails EVER.

Do you think people make those sorts of emails just to see how stupid people are? Or because they're stupid themselves?

― Superstitious Idiot, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

fiction/dogrel finds mirror in reality shock

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.dogrel.com/images_en/layout/dogrel_logo.jpg

I wouldn't say "shock."

― Dogrel, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

JOKE

(to be read aloud)

Q: where did saddam hussein keep his CDs?

A: in iraq.

OLD JOKE THAT DOESN'T QUITE WORK ANY MORE

(also to be read aloud)

Q: when does saddam hussein have his tea?

A: when tariq aziz.

COMPLETELY UNRELATED JOKE THAT'S FUNNIER THAN EITHER OF THE ABOVE

(to be read aloud in a northern-english accent for maximum effect)

Q: why shouldn't you wear russian underpants?

A: chernobyl fallout.

thank you, you've been a wonderful audience.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

No other nation, except Israel, has more history and prophecy
associated with it than Iraq.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Tutanchamun_Maske.jpg/200px-Tutanchamun_Maske.jpg
HI DERE

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

REVELATIONS 9:11 And God said 'Egypt doesn't count'

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

for some reason this shit pisses me off more than lots of other comparable fundie bullshit - its one thing to completely fuck up america but they need to stay the fuck away from pretending to understand the rest of the world

also the three wise men were zoroasterans from what is now iran, not iraq - maybe we can revive this next year when we're bombing tehran to rubble

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

The opening sequence of The Exorcist is set in Iraq!

― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

"Rydell Valley High" is located in Iraq

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Iraq spelled backwards in Urdu is JFK.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

saddam hussein had a secretary named lincoln who warned him not to invade kuwait

lincoln had a secretary named saddam who warned him not to go to ford's theatre

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Iraq was shot in a theatre, and America hid in a book depository.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

IRAQI and AMERICA have the same number of letters

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Mesopotamia spelled backward is Lynyrd Skynyrd.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/quran911.asp

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

the tower of babel fell in 1700 BC. the tower of saddam fell in 2003 -- exactly 100 years later!

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

many american soldiers deployed in iraq carry a bible. many bibles contain reference to what is now iraq. many places in iraq have soldiers in iraq are carrying references to iraq!

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

the code to decipher that last post is in ezekial 9:11

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

9 + 11 = 20, the exact number of two platoons of ten american soldiers

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Played on a standard Scrabble® board, "Iraq" is worth 911 points.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Saddam = Sodom

― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

also Saddam = Gamorrah

― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.marcet.com/catalog/30487.jpg

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Saddam's beard is the exact shape of the ancient Mesopotamian pictogram for "World Trade Centre".

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

30487 is the Number of the Beast times the numerical value of "Iraq" on a telephone keypad.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

when flushed, a quran makes a whirlpool in the exact shape of hurricane katrina

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

the film 'ishtar', set in historic mesopotamia, made exactly $911 in 1987 box office reciepts

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Koran (3:17): THEY'RE AFTER ME LUCKY CHARMS!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

the "empire of man", described in revelations as babylon, is also the name of a gay bar at the baghdad airport

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/history/mesopotamian/luckycharms.htm

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

+++ on fiyah! :)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

if he failed to shave, george w bush would have a beard and mustache. saddam hussein also has a beard and mustache.

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

911 is the number you dial in america to report an emergency. if you were in iraq, you would need to dial 911 quite often.

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

nothing happened on 9/11, november being a quiet month usually

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

9 plus 11 equals twenty, which is coincidentally the number of digets possessed by Saddam Hussein.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

actually he's missing a big toe

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Saddam loves Archie Digets?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

however 9 minus 11 equals -2, the average celsius temperature of a bank assets frozen after 9/11

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

conversely, 911 degrees Farenheit is the exact temperature at which the American Flag burns

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

ironically, the iraqi flag only burns at 1776 degrees

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Those are the two numbers that make up 911 and their personalities are at opposite ends of the spectrum. The 9 as the Cornerstone of 911 tells me that the message is global and attempts to direct our attention to mankind as a whole, not just a single nation. It warns against fanaticism, and instead asks for tolerance and acceptance. It is not Islam that is at the core of the largest conflict facing us today, nor is it different political systems or other diversities. It is religious fanaticism, narrow-mindedness, and the cold heart of the zealot.

The number 1 appears in 911 twice, and it has a message very different from the 9. We are asked to honor and value the individual. No number pays homage to life the way the number 1 does; it gives full value to each and every human life; everyone counts.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

one is the loneliest number. when it appears next to a nine, and another one, that's 10 times lonelier. autopsies of terrorists brain tissue show them to be exactly ten times lonelier than the average american.

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

And avg. Americans are REALLY lonely, if my spam is to be trusted.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

At 911 mph, you can cross Iraq in exactly 9.11 minutes.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

the copy of 'my pet goat' that bush read on the morning of 9/11 actually contained the text of nine previous nude spock threads, each printed eleven times

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

noah built the ark in iraq. indiana jones fought for control of the ark with the nazis, who were the 1940's equivalent of iraqis.

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Ethan, I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Saddam Hussein was born in the village of Al-Awja, 5 miles from the town of Tikrit in Iraq, to a family of shepherds. His mother, Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat, named her newborn son "Saddam," which in Arabic means "one who confronts." He never knew his father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid, who died or disappeared five months before Saddam was born. Shortly afterwards, Saddam's twelve-year-old brother died of cancer, leaving his mother severely depressed in the final months of the pregnancy. Saddam's mother also tried to abort the baby by attempting suicide. The infant Saddam was sent to the family of his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, until he was three.
Following family tradition, he attended prep school in New England, at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, the same school his father attended. Bush then enrolled at Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1968. As a senior, Bush was a member of the secretive Skull and Bones society, as was his father. In May 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, he entered the Texas Air National Guard. He trained in the guard for two years, where he was among the last to learn to fly the F-102, a plane not used in Vietnam and due to be retired. Bush was promoted to First Lieutenant in November 1970 on the recommendation of his commander Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He served as an F-102 pilot until 1972.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

9 times 11 plus 911 equals 1984 - the book which most bloggers agree we are now living in

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

9 times 11 plus 911 equals 1984 - the book which most bloggers agree we are now living in...followed closely by Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

"911 is a joke" performed by public enemy, Saddam considered public enemy by bush.

also, Cypress Hill's song "Insane in the Membrane" was originally called "Hussein In the Membrane"

― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

"Whoop! There It Is!", performed by Tag Team, was originally titled "While My Germ Warfare Gently Weeps"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret 9:11 - For it is written that a son of Puberty would awaken a fearsome Period and the wrath of the Period would be felt throughout the Homeroom.

― +++, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Mwahahahaha.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

9="nein" (German meaning "no") + e-lev-en: "lev" = Hebrew meaning "heart," I mean c'mon people some things are so obvious they're practically staring you right in the vace

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

lol

― and what, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dueds according to Mormons Eden is in Missouri.

― Abbott, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Only the RLDS, surely.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, the regular LDS. They interpret two rivers (Tigris/Euphrates) as the Mississippi & Missouri rivers.

― Abbott, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Goofy.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

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