Armageddon by any other name is jiggery-pokery

By Lionel Gayle

As a thinking man, I don’t believe there is any evidence, scientific or historical, that the world will end – not even with simultaneous cataclysmic earthquakes in divers places, or with a planet-wide nuclear war.

By the way, have you ever wondered why earthquakes are among God’s chosen arsenal of weapons for the annihilation of His own people?

Allegedly, it’s part of Jesus’ prophecy of end-time phenomena. Furthermore, “Earthquakes speak for God.” (http://www.mswm.org/earthquakes/earth_quakes/superearthquakes_superearthquakes.htm).

As for the threat of a worldwide nuclear war, the likelihood of such catastrophe is nil. Tyrants will emerge all over the place, but I have faith in our sane and conscientious leaders who will strive to preserve this planet as a paradise for every living being.

Expressions such as “End of the world,” “End-Times,” “Armageddon” and “The Rapture” are mere jiggery-pokery, obviously coined by holier-than-thou nobles and religious deceivers as scare-and-control mechanisms.

Even if the world ends soon, it won’t be in accordance with the forecast of the great Californian soothsayer, Harold Camping, president of Family Radio. And it won’t reflect the preferences of all those other prognosticators of doom and gloom since time began.

That’s why this drivel about Judgment Day on October 21, 2011 – that’s five months away – is so remotely crazy. The world didn’t collapse on May 21, 2011, and the righteous Mr. Camping also missed the mark in 1994.

Instead of condemning God’s lovely people to a doomsday calamity, all the guilty religious soapbox stars should focus more on the well-being of the needy masses around the world? If your minds are devoid of positive thoughts, don’t hesitate to call on the Almighty for help. Some of you claim that He speaks to you personally, and all of you accept the Holy Bible as the word of God.