But now we got a more scary religion, one that thinks they will be Raptured up into Heaven and be saved.
Tom
I was watching a very interesting documentary the other day, think it was on the one of the free thinking channels, anyway it was about evangelical people. They was interviewing them on the end times war, and Prez Bush. They want the end times war, can not wait for it, if it was tomorrow it would not be soon enough. They believe that Jesus will come to take them away before the war begins, and they will not have to suffer through it. They are all for doing anything to kick it off. They are really for Bush because they believe he will get them to the end war. They was commenting how he will be a hero for all time if the end war comes on his watch. They point to the gays, abortion, etc as proof of the end times, and they can not wait for Jesus to come back and rule for 1,000 years.
They will support anything that will bring that time sooner. Of course, when they get what they want, they will be the ones wailing and gnashing of teeth, like the rest of us, when Jesus fails to show, when the pain, suffering, and death shows no difference between those who believe and those who do not qualify.
They should understand this by looking around them now, the believers die just as horrible as "unjust" ones when tornadoes, fires, hurricanes, floods, wars, shootings, poisonings, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc comes to their doors. There no difference in the death rates of the devout and the non-devout. The difference between the "protected" and the "non-protected" is not discernible, when all factors are taken in account.
I worry greatly that this current administration is being guided to start a world war that will end all life on the planet. Just my opinion...
The questions that come to my mind are these: Why does an all powerful god need people to start the end time war? Of what value is an end time war to an all loving god, all merciful god? Why would he let it happen in the first place? Would not a loving god teach them to accept each other as valuable in and of themselves? Why does an all loving god not stop the child molesters? Why does an all merciful god allow a government using his name kill thousands of innocents? Why does a god allow a man to destroy the lives of others with outright lies? There among thousands of other questions... Just my thoughts...