Apocalypse Now?

Why are Christians so afraid of the apocalypse? Of Armageddon?

The other day James Dobson’s Focus On the Family sent out some mailers that said if Obama was elected, that would be the beginning of Armageddon.

It was titled “Letter From 2012 in Obama’s America.” And it was basically saying the entire world as we know it is coming to an end. I took a cursory glance at it, (it isn’t really worth reading), but I was thinking…every time a politician is elected (or is trying to get elected) some religious nut warns everyone that this person is the herald of all doom.

My answer is: If you’re a Christian, and believe in that stuff, so what?

Just a thought here, but doesn’t the big Armageddon battle thingy signal the coming of Jesus? Isn’t that what you’re looking for to happen?

But here’s what I think. I think that religious people, deep down know that it’s all a bunch of crap, and that they are deeply afraid of dying, because in the end, it will simply be that. The End. No afterlife, no paradise, no nothing. Simply black, and you cease to exist, you will rot, and most likely, within a 50 year time span anyone that ever knew you will most likely be dead too. You will be a simple photograph in a pile of similar photos that some grandkid, or great grandkid has inherited, someone will look at it and say, “Who’s that with aunt Millie?”

“Hmm. Not sure. Oh well, let’s get some pizza.”