I keep imagining the day when they've brought on the Armageddon they've always dreamed of - and the survivors among them look around, panicked and distraught, when all they have is a steaming, roasted planet with barely-breathable air, no food, no potable water, no trees, no animals, no shelter, no fertile soil without toxins or chemicals or radioactivity, no medicine, no doctors or hospitals, no nothing, and certainly, no Messiah coming with His celestial magic wand to clean up the mess and make it all suddenly magically better. By then it'll be too late to say "I told you so," because most of us who'd say that to these people will probably be dead. Hopefully there'll be somebody left at that time to turn to them and say "happy now?"
These ignorant pre-Cambrian-mentality assholes are so full of "God will provide" - when it doesn't even remotely occur to them that God already DID provide!!! We have this beautiful planet (the ONLY one that sustains life as we know it) and our own innate inquisitiveness that motivates many of us to strive to learn more and discover and increase our knowledge and figure out our own solutions to our problems. We have each other and creatures and vegetation and our physical strength and endurance, and the ability to learn and explore and be curious about the world around us, and grow food and build things and tame animals - SO THAT WE COULD PROVIDE FOR OURSELVES!!!
Seems simple, doesn't it? Except when you're dealing with lizard-brained latter-day Puritans, I guess.
They're like a spreading disease. A rash on humanity that seems incurable at the moment. And because they think God is on their side, expect them NEVER to give up. They think they have some Divinely-decreed crusade to carry out. They are a curse on the rest of us, and I fear too many of them are unreachable and unredeemable.
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