Apocalyptic Idiocy

Which of the following is a myth, fable or fairy tale?

A) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
B) The Odyssey
C) The New Testament
D) The Koran
E) The Torah
F) All of the above

The correct answer is F.

Yet millions of scared, ignorant people believe that their holy book is the perfect, infallible communication from their version of God.

And with the Middle East in flames, fundamentalist Christians in America are yet again buzzing about the End Times, the Apocalypse. Their twisted minds somehow believe that the Book of Revelations--which is a grotesquely bizarre fable full of winged lions and dragons and magic--is a prophesy that has yet to come true. (If Revelations is a perfect communication from the Creator of the Universe then we have to conclude that the Creator is itself a bizarre, dark, angry, spiteful, violent monster.)

Such believers are scary, and dangerous to the rest of us. Their faith in the magic fairy story of Revelations often pushes them to advocate war, in particular when it might further a World War starting in the Middle East. It also pushes them to ignore long-term catastrophes like Global Warming. And it seems to give them license to tyrannize citizens with alternative beliefs. The "Culture of Life" crowd is actually a "Cult of Death" crowd.

Their faith is rigid, intolerant, arrogant, divisive, delusional, illogical and dangerous. Identical, in fact, to fundamentalists in the Middle East.

As long as people put their trust in crazy old books and manipulative holy men instead of using their own brains to navigate the vagaries of life, the world will remain filled with violence, division, strife, polarization and death. And the idiots waiting for God's Apocalypse will only help to create a Man-made Apocalypse instead.