We can Fulfill Prophecy, & make Armageddon happen, if we really try!

[mopaul]

and by we, i mean the revelations driven crowd, the end timers, the true believers in prophecy. they see the end of the world as a good thing. and the really crazy fundies are in charge now, and they have their chubby little fingers on THE BUTTON.

a few of us are shuddering at the true believers of biblical prophecy.

[Crankie Avalon]

1. "We can Fulfill Prophecy, & make Armageddon happen, if we really try!"

...not a bad campaign slogan if'n y'all kin shorten it a little (that's an awful lot fer my base to read through).

[mopaul]

2. "Armageddon?...Bring it ON!"

the rapture is a GOOD thing

[Crankie Avalon]

4. HOT DAMN!!!

I might use that in the debatement, tonight. Right after I hit 'em with "fuzzy math" and "Read my apocalypse...NO...MORE...PEACE.

Thanks, pardner!

[KlatooBNikto]

5. I hope you don't add "Mission Accomplished".

[KlatooBNikto]

3. Two things to help hasten this process.Get yourself a top man

who likes a lot of nose candy and a Sancho Panza located in Pakistan who likes to sell nuclear weapons technology to all comers.

[MatrixEscape]

6. Having been around a while ...

I have seen the Armageddon crowd lusting for the End Times since I was young. It used to be that a sect here, a group there, etc., would be convinced it was going to be on a particular day. You usually read about the aftermath concerning people who sold everything they had and left the mountaintop thinking more about rebuilding their lives than when the Lord would be returning next.

That was fine with me, that's their right. But now, I see it going very mainstream. Personally, I am a Preterist on the issue, (though I am an Agnostic, if anything) and see the whole Revelation issue as an already done deal, Biblically. Possibly, it has some cyclic relevence -- that's a whole 'nuther issue though. However, today's End-timers are obsessed with the event to the point that they are appearing losing patience with their Lord and want to take World events into their own hands, calling it a duty.

So, on a larger scale, the question comes into play, will they merely serve to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy? Instead of waiting for Jesus to come "like a thief in the night" it looks like, given enough political influence and power, they may do everything they can to end the pain and uncertainly of 2000 years of waiting. That is the basic problem with people who subscribe to an End Times view of Christianity. Instead of the Gospel being "good news" and a cause for celebration of the revelations, law, and gifts, it becomes only the Book of Revelations that spells out a looming, and certain doom.

I don't think that a group of fanatics who may choose to push the World to the bring of disaster, or get someone to push nuclear buttons, or World War on us are fulfilling any kind prophecy at all. On the contrary, it is not an act of Faith and fulfillment, it is a taking of Heaven by storm. It is a failure of faith in the sense that it reflects the inability to "be in the World, but not of it."

Why should a doom-and-gloom, thanatos-oriented spirit be seen as anything more than a pyschological indicator of utter despair and impatience with God? I find it disheartening to consider the sub-conscious ramifications of any Christian movement that does not draw, and focus on, strength, fortitude, healing, and even peaceful transcendence, from the belief they subscribe to. That, amongst other "gifts of the Spirit" are certainly worth proudly sharing. Those are some of the beneficial elements that make a Relgion constructive or attractive.

To wish to draw the entire world into a cataclysm of untold proportions, just to prove a point, or to hasten the Second Coming, Heaven on Earth, or whatever, is a fast food approach to religion and quite contrary to the message.