by Neil Marr
Isn't it time that doomsday prophets and their followers started to remember tomorrow?
The prophets of doom have always had one thing in common ... they never predict an end of the world a hundred years on.
Every failed prophet in history – no matter how gloomy or delighted -- tells of impending 'rapture' within his own lifetime. And, of course, the prophet has a ticket to heaven while those who turn a deaf ear to his rants are doomed to be the main course at some infernal and eternal barbecue.
How bloody arrogant!
The great danger of today's apocalyptic thought is its utter abdication of responsibility for tomorrow's world.
Bush might be less inclined to send soldiers to their deaths if he wasn't so goddarn sure of a Christian heaven for them to go to. That's how potty the most powerful man in the world is. Suicide murderers are likewise assured of a free pass to their own bordello-in-the-sky paradise. Jewish militants righteously squat in foreign lands, confident that some Bronze Age book of make-believe gives them a divine right. Hey, God -- you promised, already!
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