I have never read anything so disturbing, so terrifying, that a group of Americans are so stark staring insane as to conspire to force the whole World into their mad suicide pact with their utterly perverted vision of God's will - and they have the President's approval and alliegiance?! Apparently it is really true, that whom God would destroy are first made mad - while the mass of Americans hide inside their favorite sit-coms!

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“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth“
( Nietzsche ).

Would not the developmental course of Mankind follow the same patterned matrix characteristics as that of a progenies relationship to its progenitor and primogenitor? Therefore just like the myth of Santa Claus, as that being, a temporal belief dispelled by the natural course of intellectual development. Then too, couldn’t man’s belief in an overseeing governance of justice, forgiveness and provider of hope and direction, also be a designed myth provided by convention as man’s moral compass and a wellspring of fellowship and goodwill?

Was God around for the caveman, or did he conveniently appear as mankind’s intellectual awareness of his own fragile mortality also came into being? Could not the invention of an all powerful myth, be a manifestation of man’s desire for something solid to anchor and hold onto against an unrelenting oscillating tide of universal change, and isn’t this why God appeared differently, but with the same message, simultaneously in differing cultures.

Then too, couldn’t the feared “Armageddon” represent an intellectual awakening and the end of a people’s need for religious leaders like CUFI founder John Hagee, who themselves prosper off the growing public fears and the misery of the innocent.

Because of a connate sense of belonging, when asked, individuals will always describe their political as well as religious secular affiliations (personas) as pertaining to their broader mindset of humanity and not necessarily referencing their individual allegiance to a monastic and/or perfunctory restrictions and responsibilities.
Therefore, referring to America’s religious community as being in and of itself, an indication of a growing American predominance, is disingenuous. When the fact is America’s overall religious devotion is in decline and thereby demonstrating the overall purpose of inculcating religious doctrines was to create an instinctual human sense of morality, as the advantage of leverage.

This is also, evidence that Darwin’s natural selection also pertains to and encompasses the advancement of a collective ameliorated knowledge versus the individual’s archaic and antiquated solipsistic beliefs. Holism, where the “whole” has a greater value (reality) then the sum of it’s comprising parts.

Come on people get real, God is in the process and not sitting on high orchestrating and adjudicating every aspect of life. Sooner or later your going to have to realize that; God, Santa Claus, The Lone Ranger and Nietzsche’s Superman etc… are all one in the same and represent just figments (placebo) of our imagination, and as such, just facets along the road of evolutionary development.

“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief”
(Kant).

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Their death-wishing "religion" is actually anti-Christian and should be challenged openly by traditional Christians.

Traditional Christians can not openly challenge anyone. Jesus was specific in his teachings about being a public Christian. We do not chant in public. We can respond but we can not instigate the conversation. This is why separation of church and state is a necessity for Christians. Faith is personal and the state is public. The Koran defines the internal struggle of people to define and maintain their personal relationship to God as jihad. This is a fundamental concept that all Christians can identify with. Unfortunately the fundamentalists on both sides being public make it appear that there is a battle between Christians and Muslims ordained by God. The battle of Armageddon is not a battle between men it is the final battle between God and Satan. Jesus will cast the beast into the abyss and end the influence of the master deceiver in this dimension. Armageddon is the final revolution for our freedom. Free at last, thank God we are free at last.

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I say line 'em up and give 'em the Kool-Aid.

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THERE IS NOTHING LIKE ALLOWING THS SCRIPTURES TO GET INTO THE WRONG HANDS. THE IDIOTS WILL PUSH, TWIST AND SHOVE TO FORCE THE BIBLE INTO THEIR OWN INTERPRETATION OF THE END TIMES. JESUS HAS SAYS THAT NO ONE, GET IT, NO ONE KNOWS THE TIME OF THE END.. BUT DO THEY LISTEN TO JESUS? NOO, THEY WANT TO MAKE IT WHEN THEY WANT IT AND THEY WILL DO ALL KINDS OF HORRIFIC THINGS TO BRING IT ABOUT. THEY WILL CAUSE MUCH SORROW AND CHAOS BUT WILL NOT BRING ON ARMAGEDDON!

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If he's the one I'm thinking about, he is a devout Christian Reconstructionist and son-in-law of the late Rushdooney, author of THE INSTITUTES OF BIBLICAL LAW. The plan is not just the Armageddon thingie. It is to make their own version of Biblical Law the law of the land in America and ALL other countries. Non-Christians could not vote or hold office. Homosexuals and adulterers would be executed publicly, preferably by stoning. These people are fundamentally insane.

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Oh yeh! the rapture is comming bercause the holy stupid arte going to make it a self-fullfilling prophecy!

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put Fundies into a 'fight or flight' situation?


I sure do.

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....and powerful, I'd just laugh at them. But I've talked to some of these people and it is really scary....
have we dumed down so much as a society that we come to this..... maybe we don't deservse to live on.
Christian Values - hypocrites of the first rank- I'm sure there is a special hell for them.
I've been sick of it since I was born. Christianity destroyes everything it touches. Bah.

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While I share Utley's alarm with the "Armageddonites" and their determination to force their god's hand, I think it's worth noting that they're by no means the only people in this country who not only believe the end is nigh, but take a certain satisfaction in the notion.

Utley himself notes that 30% of the American population thinks the world is going to end soon, a number that I think would be even higher if the question were to more broadly include concepts such as environmental catastrophe, economic collapse, societal collapse, etc. To be honest, I'd probably be one of those people.

What I find particularly troubling, however, is that many progressives, left wingers, and the like who share that belief with me seem to take a grim satisfaction in the notion that this will happen. Even though they won't be raptured in their belief system, there's a certain tone that says, "And then people will FINALLY have to admit we were RIGHT!" I think it's that sort of desire - the desire to show up those who disagree with us - that drives the Rapture myth, as it is all about looking down from the Heavens and gloating as the sinners get their due. Replace "sinners" with "wealthy capitalists" or "wasteful consumers," and you get the same sort of attitude on the left.

Mind you, I say this as a *very* strong leftist myself, and acknowledge that there's a certain part of me that would probably take grim satisfaction as well. But here's the thing: if it all falls apart, everybody will scramble to explain it in their own world view. There will be no humble acknowledgments of living a lie, whether that lie be a life without Christ or a life of vapid consumerism. There will simply be furious, desperate factions fighting over the scraps of what is left - if anything.

Let's all work to *stop* annihilation. The lives of billions are at stake, and it is the ultimate reprehensible act to cheer for their deaths, no matter what the political or religious perspective.

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Once again the Middle East is in play between the two most evangelic and zeal-generating religions: Christianity and Mohamedanism. Two heavens, two Prophets, two Gods (or is it one, or three, or 5? I forget) two belief-structures.In the midst, the area which generated these two and the Judaic religions. And oil everywhere. Both hate the Body and the Flesh and anything material - it CORRUPTS, it allows no PURITY, no Absolute. Bodies are necessary in the struggle to reach that Pure, Eternal State Outside of time and space. Their "life-style" and piety guarantees them they are chosen to reach that state. And they're ready to go. Let them go! Impeach them, fire them, block them, retire them, whatever it takes.

Perhaps there's still time, but I fear the Seed (trade-marked by Monsanto) has been planted and thick and tendril-like roots have spread wildly into the deepest sectors of our lives. Empire's being built despite Nero playin' his fiddle at the moment (he's kinda clumsy!). And we need to remember that a Caesar or a Napoleon don't necessarily need to be gathered into one personality. There are many methods available these days to 'skin cats'.

These guys may just perhaps be playin' with all of us in a bizarre and twisted version of the old Madman Theory. But they got so involved in it all and confused with it they turned it into a brand new Madman Practice.

The people elected them, the people must boot 'em and challenge 'em anywhere and everywhere they speak and act. Enough of Kulturkampf, un-Real "Real-politik", Corporatism and Imperialism. Many of the worst effects are kept well out of sight in other parts of the world, and not only in the Middle East. They don't count! Iraq's doing better because less American lives were lost in one month than another ( a 'values scale'). Most of the Americans that ARE lost are not precisely from back-grounds familiar to the Elect, so they don't matter so much either. Mr Cheney couldn't tell the difference between a Sunni or a Shiia or a Druze nor does it matter -- they're a dime-a-dozen.

Dis-engage to Engage; Engage to Dis-engage. Daily. Boot these people out!

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If people think seeing UFO's is crazy . . . In fact, I think were gonna need some help from those UFO's.

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What I find saddest about the whole modern fiasco of liberal vs. conservative, is that liberals remain afraid to attack the obvious conservative Christian liars where it counts. For example, in a recent appearance by Ann Coulter on Hardball, Chris Matthews, who professes to be a practicing Catholic and thus, should know better, just let Coulter rant on and on about how "godly" and "biblical" she and her side supposedly is, without once bothering to point out that what Coulter claims and what Jesus said are entirely opposite.

Likewise, Jon Basil Utley in this article does not one time bother to point out that what conservative Christians promote and what the New Testament actually teaches are polar opposites. Until anti-war leaning media pundits are willing to openly challenge liars like Coulter where it counts, mainstream Joe American is not likely to change. The reason millions of sincere Americans follow obvious frauds like Robertson and Coulter is that those on the other "side" are afraid to point out what utter liars they are. If nobody bothers to point out the obvious, then poorly educated Joe American will likely continue to support an obvious lie.

Why not take examples of what, according to the Bible, Jesus actually said and openly challenge what fanatical conservative charlatan religious con artists promote, by hitting them over the head with their own Bible? If we don't point out the obvious to poorly educated America, nothing is likely going to change anytime soon.

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Very good article, but I'd like to add an additional piece of information. The article states that..."The Armageddon theory started with the writings of a Scottish preacher, John Nelson Darby (1800-1882). His ideas then spread to America with publication in 1917 of the Scofield Reference Bible"
Even more disconcerting is that Darby revived the counter-reformation views of a Spanish Jesuit named Ribera. A basic concept of the Reformation was that Papacy as a system was the Antichrist and that much of the book of Revelation was having its fulfillment during the history of the church. In 1590 Ribera published a commentary on the Revelation, as a counter-interpretation to Protestantism, in which he applied all but the earliest chapters of Revelation to the end time and that Antichrist would be a single evil person (not a system) who would rule the world for three and a half years during the end time.
So, the Armeggedonites are actually pushing a doctrine designed to turn away scrutiny from the CC during the reformation, that has been put into the 'pressure cooker' of theology and politics and has morphed into this hideous end times view.
The funny thing is Hagee bashes the CC, but pushes their doctrine.

http://bible411.com/iwillcomeagain/iwcab.htm

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Before Emperor Constantine brought Christianity into the mainstream, all the early Church Fathers taught that Christians should not serve in the army but instead willingly suffer rather than inflict harm on any other.

St. Augustine was the first Church Father to consider the concept of a Just War.

Within 100 years after Constantine, the Empire required that all soldiers in the army must be baptized Christians and thus, the decline of Christianity began.

With the justification of war and violence supplied by Augustine’s Just War Theory, wrong became right. Nothing much has changed in two millennia, for in today’s Orwellian world politicians claim the way to peace is through war and that nuclear weapons provide protection.


I don’t care who wears the uniform, or how noble they believe their cause, war is the ultimate form of terrorism for any civilian caught in the crossfire of violence.


Eisenhower warned America not to bind our economy to the Industrial Military Complex. But, like most prophets, he was ignored.

In 313 AD, Emperor Constantine legitimized Christianity and thus, those who had been considered rebels and outlaws began to enjoy political power and prestige.


Jesus’ other name is The Prince of Peace, and with the marriage of church and state, his true teachings were reinterpreted.

The justification of warfare and the use of state sponsored violence corrupted what Christ modeled and taught. Jesus was always on about WAKE UP! The Divine already indwells you and all others. Christ taught that to follow him requires that one must love ones enemies; one must forgive those who hate, curse and revile them, without a thought of payback.

Christ lived a life that proved evil can be opposed without being mirrored, and that the cycle of a “tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye”, will never bring peace and justice.


The term Christianity was not coined until three decades after Christ walked the earth. Until the day of Paul, followers of Christ were called members of The Way; the way being what he taught!


The term 'Christian' was not even coined until the days of Paul, about 3 decades after Jesus walked the earth a man.


Jesus was NEVER A CHRISTIAN!

Jesus was a social, justice, radical revolutionary Palestinian devout Jewish road warrior who rose up and challenged the job security of the Temple authorities by teaching the people they did NOT need to pay the priests for ritual baths or sacrificing livestock to be OK with God; for God already LOVED them just as they were:

Sinners, poor, diseased, outcasts, widows, orphans, refugees and prisoners all living under Roman Military Occupation.



What got Jesus crucified was disturbing the status quo of the Roman Occupying Forces of his time, by teaching the subversive concept that Caesar only had power because God allowed it and that God preferred the humble sinner, the poor, diseased, outcasts, widows, orphans, refugees and prisoners all living under Roman Occupation above the elite and arrogant.

2,000 years ago The Cross had NO symbolic religious meaning.



When Jesus said: "Pick up your cross and follow me,"



He was issuing a POLITICAL statement, for the main roads in Jerusalem were lined with crucified agitators, rebels, dissidents and any others who disturbed the status quo of the Roman Occupying Forces.

Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor
Http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu."

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.... that all this talk about "end times" and the return of a vengeful Jesus all stems from a part of the brain that is still struggling to free itself from humankind's most primitive past.

Given that human beings already posess everything they need to be one of the most "advanced" species in this part of the cosmos, one must conclude that they have got to be the stupidest species of the entire animal kingdom to allow their furture to be shaped, even slightly, by this kind of mind rubbish.

Seek knowledge. Reject dogma, doctrine and superstition.

Rev. El Mundo
Pastor, WVCSR

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Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church will be protesting at many more funerals.

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It is great artists like Tony Kushner who give voice to the internalized anguish it is to be an American. His Angels in America send us a vision of ourselves and we cower in horror at seeing the portrait of our decrepit and debauched character. Unlike Dorian Gray we indulge even that, eventually. Like the insane who have nothing left to hang on to but their own insanity, we choose to stay because it is all we have.

So I refer you to the words of Belize who said it best:

"I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, Louis, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something."

The rapture? Just charge it.

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it is interesting to understand the history of peoples' religious beliefs. But the truth is that all religion is based on myth and fairy tales.
Jesus Christ was one in a long line of pagan sun gods. These same storylines have been used throughout history to create New religions. Religion is one of the best ways to keep people in line by the powers to be.

here is the link to Zeitgeist, The Movie- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331

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Those who rail most vehemently against evolution, refuse to take part in it, and remain unevolved. Perhaps they will create their own extinction through their Armageddonist beliefs and pursuits. We can only hope that some of the more advanced members of our species survive to take part in the next "bloom" of humanity, when we once again become the dominant species, hopefully more enlightened than the current version has shown ourselves to be. Most likely, isolated pockets of "primitive" people will continue, pretty much unaffected by the collapse and disintegration of the "modern" world. Which ought to be surprisingly fast once the majority of us have died (for whatever reason). Ever seen an abandoned airfield, or roadway? Most of the evidence of us ("advanced civilization") having even been here will be pretty much gone in a couple hundred years as "nature" (other lifeforms from paramecium to pachyderms) reproduce without the repressive influence of dominant humankind.

Of course it would be nice if it doesn't play out like that, if we get our reproductive tendencies under control and begin to live in a more sustainable and just manner. We've really come a long way, and if we quit being such fucking self-indulgent morons and sat back for a brief spell (in cosmic terms) and put some effort into planning a sustainable future, we could go a lot further still. Perhaps we could even develop a practical means of interstellar travel and see some of what else is in the universe.

Nah, probably not. More likely, given the prevailing attitude of "us vs. them", we'll turn most of the planet into a smoking mass of flaming shit and have to start all over again. Assuming some of survive, and I think some will, though not in the model the Armageddonites envision.

Here's an example of the kind of thinking that's out there. I had a somewhat fundie Christian ask me recently if the earth has gained weight with the billions of people that now live here. You know, if we figure about 7.5 billion people at maybe 150 lbs each, we get a mass of humanity at around 567.5 million tons. It completely eluded her that our entire physical beings are composed of stuff that has been a part of the planet for millions of years.

But it raises an interesting question. Given that we're about 80% water, when we die and get recycled, will all that water flood the coastal cities? Just a thought.

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How is it that Harry Potter Books are just fiction and there is no way the author is trying to influence anyone, but the Left Behind series is scary Armagedonite propoganda (my word, his meaning)? One of the authors has actually spoken out against the so called Armagedonites, and the books themselves which were interesting, point out that no man can no the time of the rapture or do anything to bring it forth or change it.
Haven't we always had Armagedonites of some sort?
Does know one else see this article as a suped up stretch of the imagination by a writer trying to desperately reach an audience through scare tactics?

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The process of non-thinking, called “faith”, has always been the power structure’s greatest ally in controlling people of all religions. We should be living in the Age of Reason instead of remaining in the Childhood of Man. As for the Armageddonites whose truth and reason are based on religion and hard-wired into their brains, what do you do with these people? To reverse centuries of brainwashing seems improbable.

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The Bush admin argues that Iran cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons because they are too far gone in religious fantasy land to be trusted not to use the bomb proactively. After reading this article I think the nation that should not be trusted to have nuclear weapons is the USA. We should in all good conscience immediately give up our entire nuclear arsenel to the UN. They can then dispose of them safely. We as a nation are no longer to be trusted with these weapons.

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These people are very, very sick! They may look normal, they may appear sane, they may have lots of money, they may be handsome and pretty but they are stark raving mad. They are also the gravest threat to America and the world. Of course that Baptist gang of cretins who go around picketing the funerals of dead gay soldiers, waving their hateful signs and screaming filth at grieving families are an extreme example. As Ayn Rand said...."Ideas have consequences." We are beginning to see the consequences of this particular mental illness/perversion called Protestant Fundamentalism. Did i hear someone say..."what about Catholic Fundamentalism?" Uh...there really is no such thing other than a few scattered brain damaged souls. You see...Catholics for the most part are Christians....which means....they take Jesus Christ as their example whereas the Protestant Fundies much prefer the Hebrew War God of the Old Testament...you know, the One who instructs His people to kill, rape, destroy, enslave and annihilate. Don't believe me? Check Numbers 31. It's time we recognized these people for what they are; mental midgets and moral cretins. Pro-life? Don't make me laugh. The only life these people care about is the life in some OTHER WOMAN'S womb...once they've taken control of that it's business as usual....War on the poor and downtrodden, War on the drug users, War on the evolutionists, War on the Muslims, Death for criminals...guilty or not, God will sort them out, War on the Communists, War on the atheists, War on evolution, War on science in general...unless it's weapon's related, War on the pagans, War on the Catholics...ad nauseum. Wake up! Let these people know they will not have their way with America and the world! Don't associate with them! Don't let your children associate with them! ( if they were Nazis would it be any worse?) They don't wear funny uniforms, they don't give straight armed salutes and they don't goose step; don't be fooled nevertheless.

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The only valid alternative to religion is to accept, what we can perceive. No more, but also no less.

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Those who pursue Armageddon with the principle aim of forcing God’s return will be disappointed because Yahweh lies. He has told them that they are favored and he will ensure that they endure, though the conflagration will truly take them too because he lies.

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What I cannot understand is where the media is. Good investigative journalism holding these dangerous lunatics to account by enlightenment standards (as supported by the founding fathers) would marginalize this nonsense for the most part; but the broadcast culture is too chicken to do it. Sponsor chill?

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These masculine Christian Warriors don't need to wait for THE Armageddon - they can create their own by joining the US Army and volunteering for combat duty in Iraq! Why wait, go now and avoid the last minute rush on Final Judgement Day! Be the first in End Timer on your block to come home in a box.

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Sir
I think the writer has shortchanged himself with a little less in the article.
The holy war or the death by the fanatics as you call these is a phrase not understood by many. The holy book of Muslim defines the death of self or what we call blowing yourself is defined ,” When you find that the religion is in danger , you need to apply everything you have to save the religion, even if it means you have to die for the religion”.
Now there is no danger to the Islam or Muslim religion in the sense the Western ideas think. It is in every corner and flourishing. It is not in danger so there is no need of some one to blow himself for this religion. If they do this, they are doing this in the fanatics or that they have lost everything and they have nowhere to go. The suicide after the Tsunami, Katrina, Enron, the fires that scorched the many American leaving little of the victims, the stakeholders, then deciding to let go, is not martyrdom or dying for the religion. It is also loss of the complete sanity and there is no one to lean on.
That is the policy of the Muslim religion. Others have exaggerated in many forms in the Middle East and Iraq, Iran, France, Russia, UK, USA Pakistan, India, Indonesia etc.
The death is not clear to the bomb attached to the dying and state, “I am dying for the religion”. The religion condemns this. The death is at the last resort, not when the religion is growing fast and far after 9/11. Not many knew the Islam, Muslim before 9/11.
The cry of more wars is best if the democrats go to Iraq and see for themselves innocent deaths by the foreign troops

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I remember talking about these assholes in 2004, just to be called a nutjob. Funny how that turned out.

Honestly, if they want off the planet so bad, they don't need to wait for Jesus and his UFO to come. We can oblige them today, if they like.

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Let's hope that religions, all of them, are on their last legs. What do you do
when you are describing the extinction of Homo Sapiens due to global warming
or asteroid impact and some insane person says: "God wouldn't let that happen"?
Somebody suggested saying: "Noah, how long can you tread water?" Flaw one
in that argument is that, in the legend, Noah survives. Flaw two is that we have
to do the entire thing ourselves. There is no god to warn us or tell us how to
survive. [It was really the ice age, not a flood, it was a cave, not a boat, and the
animals entered the cave because people were unable to keep them out. How
else would primitive people who had never seen ice describe an ice age?]

If religion is ended and replaced by science, democracies will have a much better
chance of reaching reasonable decisions on subjects like global warming. Note
that science is NOT a religion. Science is a method or a procedure or a process,
not a fixed set of beliefs. Student scientists repeat the major experiments of their
science and prove to themselves that the professor is right, no matter how much
they don't want to believe him or her.

If religion is not ended, we are much more likely to go extinct soon because
religion eliminates or limits the possibility of rational thought.

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These are obviously the same people who insist on placing graven images of the 10 commandments which forbid graven images in public spaces. Insane, retarded or just dumb.

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As a sophomore undergraduate student in Physics, your homework may
include figuring out when the second coming would be required, assuming
that the bible was 100% true in the year zero. That is, when would the
bible be down to 50% true? The popular and professors' answer in 1965
was the year 500. The true answer: A friend of mine was born and
raised in Budapest, Hungary. As an adult, he came here and stayed.
After 25 years, he visited his home town of Budapest. He was unable to
communicate with his high school classmates because the Hungarian
language had changed so much. The correct answer is less than 25 years.
The first gospel was not written down until 50 years after the alleged
events and then in a different language. The people who told the story
were at about the same level of civilization as "wild Indians", I mean
Native Americans before Columbus got here. We have all played or seen
played the game called "Telephone" in which a story is passed down a line
of re-tellers. By the Sixth re-telling, the story has no resemblance to the
original. The gospel story had to have been re-told at least 6 times before
it was mis-translated the first time. [Note that whoever wrote it down the
first time was free to write whatever he wanted to. The storytellers were
illiterate and unable to check his written text by reading it. Besides that,
he wrote in Greek rather than Aramaic.] Conclusion: There is no truth
anywhere in the bible, and there never was.

ALL of the jurisdictions that were formerly in the jurisdiction of religion
have been taken over by Science. There is no longer a need to debate the
issue. Religion is an unfortunate side effect of a major and ongoing step in
evolution. [Not that evolution has a predetermined direction. We could
devolve, but we have to get over religion or go extinct. "God" will not
save us from the consequences of global warming or an asteroid impact
because there is no such critter as "god.".] Ethics and morality are
instinctive, not derived from religion. Look up "Sociobiology". The
origin of the Universe is the subject of Cosmology which is part of
astronomy which is part of the science of physics.
Religion is a SCAM. ANY religion, there are 10,000 to choose from.
ALL preachers, priests, imams, rabbis, iatolas, etc. belong in jail for "grand
theft bunko".

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