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!

Comments

[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.