The JWs teach that at the battle of Armageddon, heavenly forces led by Jesus will war against the wicked. And by that, they mean that every non-JW will be turned into a bloody smear and the only casualties on god's side will be bruised knuckles. Those JWs who are not part of the 144,000 who got invited to heaven get to spend the next 1,000 years cleaning up the mess (hey, slaughtering billions of people and wrecking their infrastructure is hard work! You expect them to clean it up, too?), then Satan and his demonic minions (who have been locked up for those 1,000 years) will be let loose to see how many of the remaining people can be tempted into rejecting god. Once they sort that out, the demons and the people who succumbed to temptation get poofed out of existence, and then THA PARTAY IS ON!!!
...assuming that after 1,000 years of cleanup duty and dodging demons, anyone is in the mood to do anything except grab a 40 and crash on the nearest patch of rubble.
...assuming that after 1,000 years of cleanup duty and dodging demons, anyone is in the mood to do anything except grab a 40 and crash on the nearest patch of rubble.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould