so, I ran

[justalurkr]

My theory of chaos ensuing past a coworker who, in finest Buckle of the Bible Belt scholarship, provided a Biblical exegesis including four blood moons and a solar eclipse, the likes of which haven't occurred since 1948 and before that, the same year as the Pentecost, all of which indicated a world-changing year.

Life as we know it will never be the same!

The first time someone tried to wig me out about the End Times, I realized that Biblical prophecy goes back a little over 5000 years, or about as long as patriarchy as we know it has existed. Since patriarchy as we know it was all the world as the prophets knew it, the Biblical end of the world is clearly the end of patriarchy.

I say bring it, baybeeeee!

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[nialla]

Someone's cashed in on the blood moons thing with a book titled, "Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change". It has been quite the thing with the evangelical types, which then spread it out to non-evangelicals.

I've lost count of how many times someone assured everyone that "This means it's the End Times!" just during my time in the library. End Time dates have been given and passed over and over, but people still eat it with a spoon. I blame at least part of the insanity on "Left Behind" books, which made it outside evangelical circles into mainstream fiction. So now everybody has to write an End Times book and call it non-fiction to make it serious business.

Here's my view of the End Times and The Rapture...

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

I like that panel!

I thought we'd all moved on with respect to the subject of what makes eclipses -- they're pretty predictable, and I'd think it'd be difficult for even the most hardcore evangelical to find God's will expressed through the heavens as anything like predictable.

[nialla]

What floored me was when so many evangelicals were all about the end of the Mayan calendar. First of all, they were misinterpreting how the calendar works, second, it's a non-Christian, heathen religion of indigenous Americans that created the calendar. Why did so many white evangelicals cling to it?

[khek.livejournal.com]

That's...a very good question.

Perhaps they didn't understand that Mayans were non-Christian, heathen indigenous tribes from Central America? They just heard "end of days" and translated it through their own mythology?

[nialla]

I think they're so eager for the End Times, they don't care which mythology gives it to them.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

I think you're right, and worry about the level of self righteousness that makes people so fearless of facing God's judgment.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

The Greek philosophers the Scholastic Christians leaned on so heavily were all pagans. I think some Pope or other declared them honorary Christians or something for being so clear of thought (for which read "philosophy what supports our world view in words better than we could come up with.)

This doesn't explain, however, where the current crop of Evangelicals, whom I doubt could even spell Aristotle let alone explain the effects of Metaphysics and Ethics on Christian thought, would get the idea that pagan notions have value.

[khek.livejournal.com]

What gets me is how some people read meaning into the stars and the moon phases, yet many of the same people say that changing weather patterns mean nothing. I know which one I'd read as an indication of the "end of days".

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd say twister or hurricane is a better indicator of the end of my world as I know it than a tetrad of blood moons, which are pretty in a macabre way.