Blood Moon

Sunday night, something happened that hasn't been seen since 1982 and I missed it. Not by choice of course. The Blood Moon rose high above us that night and my family and I stayed up late just to be able to catch it. When it was dark enough, we finally went outside to see it, but Mother Nature had other plans...

Back in 2008 Christian pastors Mark Blitz and John Hagee (whose endorsement of John McCain for President that same year seen by some as anti-Catholic caused headaches for the campaign) popularized the idea that a tetrad (or a series of 4 lunar eclipses), starting with last nights blood moon, is a sign of either the second coming of Christ (according to Blitz) or change in the course of history for

If you stayed up until midnight last night you were treated to a full lunar eclipse or "Blood Moon". When the Earth blocks out the light from the sun only light from our planet can reflect off of the lunar surface which takes on a red hue.