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February 26, 2007
Apocalypto
was raised as one of Jehovah's witnesses. I was told Armageddon was coming soon. The implied date was 1975. When I began questioning some statements and assumptions at the tender age of 15, I got a lot of unreasonable, reactive, emotionally based, questioning-the-morality-of-my-questions responses. I got a taste of what kinds of things people will say and do when they are deeply attached, in a fear-based way, on an apocalyptic image.
Through the years I saw it come up in other ways:
- the Population Bomb
- the coming Ice Age
- Reagan will cause a nuclear war
- killer bees
- Amazon deforestation
- the fiat currency collapse
- Y2K
- and now human-caused Global Warming.
In every case, when you try to track down the supporting science, the reaction is rather fervently "If you're not a believer, you're a sinner." It's to the point with human-caused global warming that questioners are allied to holocaust deniers.
And last night at the Oscars, Al Gore said, "It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue." In other words, if you question the science of human-caused global warming, you are immoral.
How apocalyptic. The religion of human-caused global warming. It brings back fond memories of when I sinned as one of Jehovah's Witnesses while questioning Armageddon.
Well, it's 2007 and not only is 1975 long passed, so is the end of the millenium.
We sinners will survive this cult of human-caused global warming. As long as they don't set up concentration camps for us.
Posted by witnit at February 26, 2007 11:13 AM
Comments
Ain't that the damned truth.
Very well said.
A Fellow Sinner
Posted by: Jim - PRS at February 26, 2007 11:02 PM
I've posted on this on my own blog, http://www.broadlight.blogspot.com/ and added a cool link.
Check it out.
BLighter
Posted by: Broadlighter at February 28, 2007 12:10 PM
1975 Huh? I remember when I was 15 or 16 a Witness came to my door on a Saturday morning and told me that God was going to strike down the United Nations in the coming months. That would have put that prediction around 1975. Could it have been the same or a related prediction?
Posted by: Broadlighter at February 28, 2007 12:30 PM
Probably the same. They've been re-rationalizing the End since WWI.
Posted by: witnit at March 1, 2007 10:23 AM
I beg to differ with the inclusion of Y2K on this list.
Thousands of software developers worked for at least 2 years to avoid that meltdown.
I know. I was one of them.
Posted by: Pamela at April 2, 2007 8:19 AM
