By brother sent me this link, figuring it would get me good and riled up:
AlterNet: Lobbying for Armageddon
It’s well written, but maybe I’m just resigned to witness The End Of The World As They Know It. Alas, I know not what to do…
I’ve made the point before and I’ll make it again. Anyone who believes:
a) that Armageddon will happen,
b) that X is a prerequisite for Armageddon (where X is, say, attacking Iran)
and then
c) goes lobbying to actually make X happen, by the US or Israel, or anyone…
is a genocidal maniac and as bad as any Islamic terrorist, with no business preaching, leading, or reporting. [again, I’m only talking about those who seek to end the world, not just those who believe it will happen.]
If God exists and God wants to destroy the world on a whim, that’s out of our hands. If we bring about the events that move things along on the time-line of doom, then we have taken responsibility for those events. We are, in effect, using God as a weapon of mass destruction to settle some religious and political scores. How Christ-like is that? How can these people not see?
By my reconing, Pastor John Hagee is a terrorist and a traitor to the human race. He seeks the destruction of most of humanity so that he, and only those people he believes to be righteous and proper, will inherit the earth or go straight to Heaven, without the slightest consideration for the billions of people he would like to see die in fire and burn with disease, just to prove him right and true and good, according to the book that has been thusly used to persecute, torture, and kill millions throughout history.
The man should probably be institutionalized, because even if he’s wrong about the furture (and I think he is) he can do great damage in his crazy quest. He can actually succeed in mass murder, at least indirectly (and how many genocidal mass murderers kill with their own two hands?), if not of everyone, then at least of some of the more innocent Iranians, Jews, Palestinians, and the like who will be caught in the cross-fire. And if our leaders follow suit and escalate, then we could easily see the end of everything. I’d like to say I’m being hyperbolic, but they have the capability, and we don’t even know for sure where Bush stands.
Pastor Hagee, as far as I can tell, cares only for power and the pretense of self-righteousness. An in the process, he preaches war, intolerance and hate to meet his ends. If there is a truer definition of "Anti-Christ," I have yet to see it.
The problem is, there may be more than one of them. It does little good to focus on just the most vocal Anti-Christ and make him a martyr. We need to repeatedly excoriate him and the whole self-righteous bunch, with the understanding that Life, the World, and even God, in the truest sense, are what we make of them. We can have peace, or we can have war. We can each be Christ, or Anti-Christ. It’s our choice, and our test to pass.
