Reply #10: It’s only the End-of-Times if you want it to be. [View All]

It seems that the “Rapture” concept only appeared about 200 years ago and it was revealed to or thought up, conceived and envisioned by a 19th century equivalent of Pat Robertson. The “you can’t trust anybody, but me” dogma is not unique to organized (flkey word) Christianity. Tyrants and despots, in order to control the masses long before Christ ever lived in this world, have used this approach as a lynchpin to their control, faith or whatever. They will save you from the end of the world, but they won’t try to stop it. It’s kind of like *’s war on terrorism. It’s a real threat that he can’t afford to win. Otherwise he would lose control.

On the other hand, global warming will eventually make us all extinct. Unfortunately, personal choices to counter the effects don’t go very far. It helps, but it requires a communal effort by all the nations of the world to educate, adapt and adopt new protocols to life on this planet. How odd that the * administration refuses to adopt the Kyoto protocol. In fact, they are actively reversing any efforts to preserve our national parks and resources. This is a real threat that they are willing to win in the short term because their “rapture” concept will remove them from the consequences.

I can only hope for an early epiphany. Otherwise, I hope they find their “rapture” in hell, here on the ravaged earth with the rest of us.