My Race is Insane
June 24, 2006
I don't get the human race sometimes:For thousands of years, prophets have predicted the end of the world. Today, various religious groups, using the latest technology, are trying to hasten it.
Their endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah.
For some Christians this means laying the groundwork for Armageddon.
With that goal in mind, mega-church pastors recently met in Inglewood to polish strategies for using global communications and aircraft to transport missionaries to fulfill the Great Commission: to make every person on Earth aware of Jesus' message. Doing so, they believe, will bring about the end, perhaps within two decades.It's why I find so much hypocrisy in many of these groups frequent slinging of the culture of death epithet at we puny materialists.
Posted by Jody at June 24, 2006 02:20 PM
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I do believe in the End Time and am fascinated by current events and Bible prophecy.
However silly it may seem that Christian groups feel the need to step up evangelism in preparation for the retun of Christ, I am more disturbed by the Iranian example mentioned in the article you posted.
While the motive for the Christian evangelists is to get everybody 'saved' before the end of the world, Ahmadinejad believes that he can usher in his end time vision with the aid a nuclear arsenal.
I found an interesting commentary by Victor Hansen on Ahmadinejad's tactics which entail the destruction of the nation of Israel
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at June 26, 2006 04:36 PM
While the motive for the Christian evangelists is to get everybody 'saved' before the end of the world...
Yes, but everyone doesn't get saved before the end of the world. Matter of fact, a good many don't and spend eternity in hellfire -- at least according to the myth.
Given that there is no afterlife and our ability to leave Earth severely limited, the notion that around half the people on the planet -- Christians, Jews, and Muslims -- are awaiting the destruction of the planet in order to get something "better" is frighteningly asinine.
Posted by: Jody at June 26, 2006 11:23 PM
Actually what's weird is after the 'Battle of Armageddon' there is supposed to be an interim period where Christ reigns on earth for 1000 years. No one really preaches on it.
I'm not looking forward to the 'end' because Christians (and Jews) will be harshly persecuted. A lot of Christians believe they will be 'raptured' away before all this bad stuff goes down but I don't find that to be scripturally accurate.
And yes, to a non-believer it would seem rather ridiculous.
Posted by: MQM at June 27, 2006 02:13 PM
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