So there's this guy. He's an 'Evangelical.' He's been on TV spouting something or other that can't possibly be true, for like, longer than I've been alive. As far back as the 1980's, when he swindled a bunch of little old ladies et. al. out of $150 million. And he did other stuff. Like serve 5 years prison time for it. Then he was partly exonerated and went right back to his ministry. Just so we're clear, I know who he is, and most of you probably do too. I don't need to say his name to make my point.
So, here's the current situation: Mr E, we'll call him, is preaching to his followers about end times and nuclear winter and prepping for armageddon. He is marketing doomsday kits. He is blaming our former president for the eclipse. He is praising the new president as the only solution, and he's saying that all of this is prophecy.
So, not only is this stuff not biblical; it's not remotely scientifically possible. God doesn't just cause an eclipse. Well I mean, he can....but he set things in motion to perpetuate eclipses. Mathematics and physics can calculate all past and future astronomical events for millennia. And before you throw in the argument on prophecy, I don't know it all, but let's just say I got a guy. So, I am not talking about God's timing here. Besides. My 'Guy' and also my Bible, have told me that since the Cross (See Bible: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John), God's judgment was laid on His only Son for the salvation of the world. So unless, like I said, there's a prophecy which pertains to a natural, quantifiable (again: for millennia, past and future) phenomenon which would really and truly be about one president or another, It's a pretty safe bet that this was not a predestined event intended to usher anything in or out.
I agree with those who think this guy is nuts. One person commented that they love guys like this, because when people see how crazy they seem to be, they just write off that ignorant poppycock religion and all its followers. Except there's a problem: He uses fear and condemnation on his platform because he is ignorant of whatever does not serve his ends. Makes good folks look bad.
I am a Christian believer, but I am neither hateful nor ignorant. So, as a Christian, I feel it is my duty to pray for this man and the many like him who are so terribly and utterly wrong, and who may never have read the Bible to understand it, but only to further their own agenda based on incomplete knowledge that was no doubt passed on to them in the same fashion. It is to pray to my God in heaven that I never EVER presume to know everything there is to know about everything in this world. I pray for peace and comfort for the sick and afflicted among us. I help in little ways if I can. And to be honest, sometimes I suck at it. But I'm only human.
We humans need to look around us and see all the other humans. We are both strong and frail. We are profound thinkers and blithering idiots. We are brilliant, and yet fools all, at one point or another. God is the judge. He is in control. Whatever he is, in whatever capacity. What we think DOESN'T MATTER in the end. If that is true, and I'm right, I will go to Heaven. If I'm not, I have lived a very honorable life following my God. I am intensely angry about this man and men like him who make believers look like fools because he's missed the entire point of what it means to be a follower of Christ. I would ask you to consider this before you stamp us all damaged goods and toss us aside. Those who really, REALLY get it; what it means to be a Christian? We're on your side. Whoever you are.
