Apocalypse (Almost) Now

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

[DTaggart]

I'll take that bet.

[Pitiricus]

I never bet on a certainty, the certainty is that all that won't happen...

I am sure fed up of being told I don't understand the Tanakh by people who wouldn't know the difference between a tet and a tav...

All this second coming mishmash enter in the category of how analphabetes understand a book...

BTW this kind of hysteria has been going on for 1700 years at least...

[wizardoz]

My younger sister loves those Left Behind books.

Anyway. Hope you have your flame-retardant jammies on.

[3AngelaD]

This guy has obviously never seen Michaelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.

[wasp69]

I just love a "tolerant" liberal to quote scripture to me. I would be willing to bet the horrible bigot Christian authors donate much more to charity than this commie hairball.

[Phantom Lord]

Which side are you betting on?

I will bet all of my lifes fortunes that the end of the world doesn't come within 10 years.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I don't think one should wager with the anti-christ.

[Strategerist]

Man, Kristof seems to have ripped me off....

On various Apocalyptikook threads (usually about them lying about increases in earthquakes, etc.) I've offered to bet any amount of money that the World doesn't end within the next 10, 25, 50 years, or whatever.

[Gibtx]

god.... is my bet...

[TheBigB]

Kinda moot, since if it does, would you really be expected to pay out? ;)

[fishtank]

Daniel Webster was asked 200 years ago why he believed in God. His answer was quick and precise, "The Jews, sir the Jews." God has a plan for Israel, and we see it happening in front of our eyes. The restoration of Israel to the Land is a modern miracle. The rest of the prophecies will come to pass as well.

[Strategerist]

Having glanced at a couple in a bookstore they actually manage to be more poorly-written than the DaVinci Code, and that's an accomplishment.

Anyway, the Left Behind books are basically Religious Porn.

[Strategerist]

Kinda moot, since if it does, would you really be expected to pay out? ;)

Yeah, that's the joke of it of course.

[Pitiricus]

Webster was right as Christianity is a bastard offshoot of Judaism... Bastard in the sense that it is a throwback to politheism...

But for the rest..

[Mister Baredog]

Being wrong has rarely been so lucrative

Just look at Michael Moore.

These morons are incapable of gettin it, moral equivalency is their dogma, there is no right and wrong, just opinions and feelings, pathetic kool-aiders.

[escapefromboston]

The problem I have with the "lef behind" series is that its poorly written. I mean we used to have Christian writers like CS Lewis and GK Chesterton and now we have these two guys.
(though I guess one could argue most "popular" fiction today isn't as good as it used to be)

Also it took two people to write the "left behind" series? yeesh.

[Pitiricus]

I can't understand how the Da Vinci Code became such a success... Boring!

[Cornpone]

"BTW this kind of hysteria has been going on for 1700 years at least..."
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You're right about that. One of the reasons there was such stagnation in Western civilization until the Renaissance was that nobody was motivated to do anything because they were all waiting around for the second coming...then they finally woke up.

[Edgerunner]

Merchandising...The REAL money is in Merchandising!

[atomicpossum]

But I've sat down in Pakistani and Iraqi mosques with Muslim fundamentalists, and they offered the same defense: they're just applying God's word.

If Komrade Kristoff were truly being intellectually honest, he wouldn't take the tired tack of 'Christian Fundamentalist= Islamic Fundamentalist.' The argument he outlines for the Christian side is 'God Will Judge You,' and the one for the Islamic side is 'WE Will Judge You.' He's being dishonest in equating them, but I'm sure he feels no need to be fair to people he so oobviously loathes.