Speaking of Thermonuclear weapons...

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PCIntern (22,113 posts)


Speaking of Thermonuclear weapons...

When I was much younger I dated a Christian conservative Republican, (yes I know but there were a couple other factors at the time which, and pardon the expression, trumped her political beliefs). Anyway, she once mentioned to me that she was a believer in what she called the Jesus factor. She had told me at the time that there was a book which stated that you can’t drop bombs or shoot them at an enemy because they will only explode if Jesus wanted them to which of course he does not…

Such was a hope that someone was clinging to that the world was actually safe and that we were protected by the Almighty and his minions. So, the other day, this all ran through my head and I decided to look up Jesus factor and found it was actually the title of a book whose premise was that Thermo nuclear weapons cannot be detonated in a non-stationary gravitational field, and that the bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were actually massive flares coupled with radionuclides over earthquake areas to simulate bomb targets. The protagonist of the novel is running for president and has a position of nuclear disarmament and has discovered the plot as an ex bombardier of one of the planes. Or something like that.

Anyway on many levels this is most distressing but the main one for me is that all Republicans have to do is close their eyes and click their heels together and the problems just disappear. If you believe that Jesus, the creation of man on earth in his goodness and might can stop catastrophe, then all faith may be restored in humankind and our purpose here on the globe. The fact it this was a complete and utter misinterpretation of the plot of the book is actually irrelevant to the wishful thinking of an otherwise extremely bright individual. For you folks shaking your heads, and I get it, she was raised in a very conservative environment and had great difficulty surrounding the lies she was told as a young woman because they were so deeply inculcated into her psyche. What eventually convinced her that maybe things were not so rosy on the right wing and the establishment was that her family was very proximal to Three Mile Island and when the catastrophe occurred all the people in the region who had even 25% of a brain knew that they were being lied to during the crisis by the establishment in order to protect the energy sector as well as the probable contamination of billions of dollars of farmland between Harrisburg in Philadelphia . It was truly an Aha! moment for her. Of course this is all an aside from the point of the post, but what else is new with me and my posts??😄

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216514151

Never happened. Nobody wants to date you.

[Aristotelian]

Took under five seconds with the Google to debunk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Factor

Can't say that I'm inclined to read the book (overtly fictional), but I suspect that the use of Our Lord's name has nothing to do with religion.

Zero bongs from this quarter for a typically poor effort.

[SVPete]

Edwin Raymond Corley was a novelist who wrote "thrillers". AFAIK, he never wrote for religious people in particular, and he certainly wasn't represented in the Christian bookstore in which I worked in the mid 70s. That PCI thinks The Jesus Factor had any influence among Christians beyond those who stayed up late reading his books illustrates his ignorance of Christians generally, and the theologically conservative Christians he denigrates and detests.

[FlaGator]

If it furthers God's plan then the bombs will explode. It's really just that simple.

And I too don't believe the OP ever had a girlfriend. INCEL all the way.

[BamaMoose]

Next he'll claim that he had a patient who once worked for the CIA that told him that all covert mission operational planning was developed by referring to Tom Clancy novels.