the end is nigh 2!!!

[Sal]

I was mad at God a long long time as well. and as much had every right to be as i understood this world and him. the only thing i had going for me was the desire for the truth and my willingness to let go my original understanding and change my life in accordance to the truth as i discovered it. firs thing i learned was just about everything i believe about god was wrong. the second thing the standards i used to just God were self serving. once i learned the unfiltered truth i honestly could not find anything to be mad at.

If end-time prophesies are true, then:

* Creationists are right.  The world was created for humans a short time ago, was a failure, and is scheduled for quick termination.

Unfortunately, science shows us the vastness of the universe, of which we are only a speck.  In existence in its current form for 13.7 Billion years, it will likely continue for unimaginable time (barring a big crunch).

Why not entertain the idea that end-time prophesy is all just a scary bedtime story?

Human beings evolved to live on this planet -- it wasn't created for us.  Sure, we can kill ourselves, but if we do, it seems that bible-believing Christians will be the ones gleefully pushing the button.

There are certain ... self-destructive tendencies among the more literalists of Christians - like a longing for death - that I find to be a travesty about their faith. What's even more tragic is that it isn't quarantined to the fanatics of their particular faith, and its tendrils have far reaches into all human endeavours in our civilization.

Christians cloud it as The Rapture or some other end-time judgement, but the meaning of it is clear as mud. How many proclamations ... sorry, prophecies,  through the millennia have there been made by hucksters and showmen, essentially grifters, when their own Bible says that no one will know the date?