'End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon - Los Angeles Times

In all seriousness, these people really are dangerous. Not because they are in any way right in their beliefs. I am not even sure they believe what they say they believe. If they did, why would they not sell all that they have and give the money to the poor, like Jesus told them to do, not run around raising more money for more world missions and more, bigger mega churches?

I cannot say that I know much at all about the Islamic Messiah that the Shia allegedly believe in; the Mahdi. I know quite a few Muslims and I have never heard this one before.

We all know about the long awaited Jewish Messiah, or most of us do..

It is not, in the least, surprising that all three Abrahamic traditions have come down with endtimes fever. Many of them are scared witless, apparently, because the 21st Century, in many ways, does mean the end, for them. Religious scholars say that we are entering a new axial age. The last one brought us Buddha, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed, and quite a few others that no one talks about much.

An Axial age, is one in which humanity re-examines its beliefs, traditions, culture, etc. It usually is a time of great turmoil.

It can be set in motion by a cataclysmic event of somekind. I believe that this axial age was not set in motion when Israel was recognized by the U.N. It was really set in motion by something far less obviously religious; the use of, not one, but two, nuclear weapons in Japan.

Many people, for thousands of years, have longed for a savior; someone who would come rescue them from ...what.... Themselves and the mess they have made of things, or others, whom they hate, because they are convinced that they made the mess and life, therefore, unbearable?

The first Atomic generation is no different. My generation is the first to never experience a day of our lives without the threat of nuclear annihilation in the backs of our minds. Truth be told, were it not for our "atomic 'awareness" I doubt seriosusly that the turbulent 60s and all that grew out of that time would have ever happened.

Well, it isn't gonna happen, Folks. Jesus of Nazareth is not coming back. The Christ never left and is here now. But if one insists on literal interpretations of scared scripture, one will not experience Christ.

What one will do, by insisting on helping God bring about a gizzly end for sinners of all traditions, is create untold suffering, put even more burdens on the poor, sick and elderly, which I can tell you that Jesus Christ frowned upon greatly, and, eventually, bring great harm to oneself and others.

I will leave it to rational Muslims and Jews to deal with their own endtimers. Ours, over here, are about all we can handle.


'End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon - Los Angeles Times:

"For thousands of years, prophets have predicted the end of the world. Today, various religious groups, using the latest technology, are trying to hasten it.

Their endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah."
(Read On. It is better to know the crackpots we are up against; all of them)