Twice in the past four days, CNN has run segments seriously inquirng whether current events in the Mideast are the prelude to the apocalypse.
"The July 26 edition of CNN's Live From ... featured a nine-minute segment in which anchor Kyra Phillips discussed the Apocalypse and the Middle East with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg -- who share the view that the Rapture is nigh. At one point in the discussion, Phillips asked Rosenberg whether she needed 'to start taking care of unfinished business and telling people that I love them and I'm sorry for all the evil things I've done,' to which Rosenberg replied: 'Well, that would be a good start.'"
Jenkins is one of the co-authors of the "Left Behind" series of books.
Also on CNN, on July 24 Paula Zahn did a segment on "What the Book of Revelation tell[s] us about what's happening right now in the Middle East."
Apparently the intersection of politics and religion is now deep inside La-La Land.
Just as the formerly "nutty" ideology of the John Birch Society now informs the policies of the government and the opinions of the supposed "mainstream," what used to be the superstitions of religious extremists are now put forward as the standard doctrine, and are perfectly acceptable to the "respectable" mainstream media.
Regarding the rest of the world, maybe the right question isn't "Why do they hate us?" but rather "Why do they feel sorry for us."
Better lay off those genetically modified foodstuffs, America. They're doing more damage than you think.
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