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16:02, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Book of Habakkuk

In relation to the section I have proposed "US national debt in Bible prophecy". To be fair to Richard H Perry his "Complete Idiot's Guide to the Last Days", even though his commentary of Habakkuk is not featured here, was a book he was asked to write by Penguin publishing. I've seen him interviewed in prophecy documentaries put out by major mainstream media outlets. I'm aware that there's been a few theologians make that connection since America's high and increasing national debt has become a front ans centre issue - which wasn't all that long ago really.

Aussieflagfan (talk) 06:13, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The whole section cited only a single, privately produced YouTube video. That a WP:RS problem. It also contained a long quote from the Book of Habakkuk. Now, there's two possibilities for where that quote came from. Either you translated it yourself from the Hebrew, in which case there's a WP:OR problem here, or else you lifted someone else's translation without acknowledging in, in which case it's a plagiarism issue. If there's going to be a section on the US national debt in relation to Habakkuk, it needs to have any claims it makes backed up by reliable sources that are directly cited (you know, page numbers and such) in the article itself. And any quotes in the section will need to be cited to their source as well. Now, even if the WP:RS, WP:OR, and WP:PLAG standards are met, there might be other reasons not to have a whole section on this odd theory, but those would be some minimum requirements that would need to be met. Henrygleason (talk) 15:44, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

PS -- I'd also recommend that discussion about the Book of Habakkuk article should happen on that article's talk page, rather than here. Henrygleason (talk) 15:46, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What I'll do is start a thread on the talk page. Personally though I think it could be a perfectly sound piece of biblical exegesis. And ever since the Iranian nuclear accord started to fall apart his theories in relation to world war 3 in bible prophecy is making him a man of the moment in some fundamentalist circles too: https://www.facebook.com/Australian.Christian.Broadcasting/posts/2112153465465650 Aussieflagfan (talk) 08:28, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]