The End of the World May 21, 2011

05.11.2011 By
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Judgment Day is May 21, 2011.  This is the day that Jesus will claim his true believers and everyone else will be cast into hell. Don't believe me? Well the Bible guarantees it. Quite a few news stories have shown up in several news outlets over the past week about, as the Associated Press says, "a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin May 21, 2011." End of Days in May (MSNBC) Apocalypse Soon: Christian Movement Says 5/21/11 (CBS News) Hundreds of Google News articles on End of World in May 2011 (Google News) I love the NPR.com article by Barbara Hagerty "Is The End Nigh? We'll Know Soon Enough." She interviews several true believers and reports on the mega-million-dollar Family Radio network, one of the many "news" outlets we have to thank for providing us such valuable interpretations of the 2,000-year-old text. "People need to … [Read more...]

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One With the Sun—Taking an Evolutionary Perspective

10.27.2010 By
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“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?” The above quote, from Richard Dawkins, invites thoughtful readers to take a very long-term view of time. It occurs to me that you know you’re getting a little long in the tooth when you describe your life in decades. “I did such and such in the 80s, the 90s were a blur and the noughties were all diapers and Hop on Pop.” A decade feels like a long time. But when you think about time from an evolutionary perspective, a decade is a blink of an eye. As mortal human beings, we have only brief decades on this Earth. How do we make them meaningful? Is there a meaning in life or is there only the meaning that we make? The cranky Old … [Read more...]

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