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12 Dec 2023, 5:12 am

KitLily wrote:
I thought the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were:

War, Plague, Famine, Death.

We're certainly seeing all of those at present.


Technically five - also pestilence - disease is wiping out crops soil and coral reefs around the world



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12 Dec 2023, 8:53 am

cyberdad wrote:
KitLily wrote:
I thought the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were:

War, Plague, Famine, Death.

We're certainly seeing all of those at present.


Technically five - also pestilence - disease is wiping out crops soil and coral reefs around the world


We've just been through that conversation- someone above said plague and pestilence are the same thing.


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12 Dec 2023, 8:54 am

RedDeathFlower13 wrote:
KitLily wrote:
I got the Horsemen's names from the book Good Omens- War, Plague, Famine, Death. At least I think that's what they were called!


Maybe it's just one of those religious things that changes depending on the interpretation or source? :)

For example I hear that Catholics take the story of Judith, the beautiful widow who saved Israel from a ruthless enemy general by seducing him with alcohol and decapitating him with his own sword while passed out drunk, a lot more seriously than Protestants or Jews do (they consider the tale to be a kind of fiction).


Yes it could easily be a religious thing.

I'm not religious so I suppose I wouldn't know but I have never heard of Judith. But then again I've never read the Bible.


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