The Fool...... > http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2003/feat_2003-02-27.cfm > > Pushing the Apocalypse How fundamentalists see scripture -- and > politics-- on schedule for the end of the world.
This was an excellent article.
I especially like the position of the Reverend from the Episcopal Diocese in Salt Lake City. His quote: "It will be a transformation of experience that has more to do with consciousness and less to do with bodies. I think it will be more and more people exercising the greatest gift, as Paul described it, which is love and then we will see a spiritual awakening on this planet like never before. And it could happen without one drop of blood."
That's a very enlightened and hopeful opinion. Too bad that more religious leaders don't see it the same way.
Probably because the Bible seems to make it very clear that that is not the way it is going to happen.
There would be far fewer religious fanatics and nay-sayers if everyone thought this way.
If the Bible is correct, they would be wrong.
If the Bible is incorrect on this issue, how is one to know that it is not incorrect on other issues?
-- Ronn! :)
Almighty Ruler of the all, Whose Power extends to great and small, Who guides the stars with steadfast law, Whose least creation fills with awe, O grant thy mercy and thy grace, To those who venture into space.
(Robert A. Heinlein's added verse to the Navy Hymn)
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