No, they’re not something that was used on Flash Gordon by Ming the Merciless or other evil overlords.
And they’re not a new kind of heart therapy, either.
They’re something that you can see in the atmosphere on almost day day, anywhere in the world.
They’re the "rays" of sunlight that we see streaming in various situations. In rare cases, they converge on the opposite side of the sky from the sun, a point known as (omniously) as "the Antisolar point" (wherein lives the evil Anti-Sun), in which case they are called "anticrepuscular rays."
Here’s some pix!
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Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Cool. That’s pretty sinister-looking.
Interesting to know the name. I always refer to them jokingly (given the conventions of landscape and allegorical paintings) as “God.” “Hey, look, it’s God!”
When I first read that I switched the first e for an a, and I was quite confused… It made much more sense with a second look (I need coffee…)
When I first read that I switched the first e for an a, and I was quite confused… It made much more sense with a second look (I need coffee…)
Beautiful.
Whenever I see them, streaming down from the clouds, I think that God must be honoring someone.