The Sky Didn't Fall

As you might have noticed, the world didn't end...and the rapture certainly didn't happen last Saturday.
This shouldn't be all too surprising, if your ability to think hasn't been somehow compromised.
No earthquakes, no apocalyptic hellfire. Frankly, I'm a bit disappointed - I was looking forward to some quality looting and pillaging.





But before we all jump on the "This disproves Christianity" bandwagon, I'd like to make something clear.
One lunatic with a radio station defines Christianity precisely as much as one bicycle defines cars.
Hell, there are even references in the aforementioned book of prophesy to false prophets leading up to the real deal.

That aside, I find doomsday prophecies to be a gigantic waste of time and energy. In any given school of thought, there are people living in the farthest extremes that can be imagined...for religion, or more particularly for a very narrow subset of religion, these people are doomsday-mongers.
Personally, any belief based solely on fear of something is utterly and completely wasted. You're missing the point - whether fear of death, fear of world-ending, or fear of the color green.
So you'll find I treat the upcoming Mayan end-of-the-world with about the same respect as I treated Y2K and the Camping Rapture - which is to say, none at all.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about respecting beliefs. I am not, however, about trying to frighten people into thinking things. It wasn't right during the Cold War, and it sure as hell isn't right now. That same logic applies in other areas, though. Iraq war come to mind for anyone else? It certainly does for me.

Point is, fear-mongering, like most of the purported flaws of religion, is not restricted to religions. Most of the time what people are trying to disprove is not God or a god or even a set of beliefs...it's human nature.
People are corrupt. Go figure. Please, don't think that makes faith of any kind pointless or hypocritical.

- C

(Oh, and "the math would break Google's computers" - seriously? Who the hell didn't immediately think that was a pile of horseshit? Computers are just giant, complicated calculators. Also, Google's computers are not somehow special. Funny how delusional people seem to lack the ability to separate certain concepts, isn't it?)