The end of the world

So, the end of the world came and passed, and there was much frivolity. I’m still not sure what to think about it. I did my fair share of mocking it and the people who believed that it really was going to happen 6 PM on May 21, but ultimately I do believe that the world is going to end at some point. I just don’t think that anyone will see it coming. But you really could get a sense of our culture in the way that everyone responded to it. It was like I was in a dystopian novel, like 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 or something, where the most serious things are downplayed in order that the general population will not panic. The end of the world was coming, and everyone was cracking jokes and poking fun at the concept of Judgment Day. And the idea that it would happen in each time zone at 6 PM was just the weirdest feeling, because theoretically you could see the ned of the world coming. Just imagine what it would have been like watching the world go up in flames bit by bit, knowing that it was coming but being powerless to stop it. It was the end of the world, and everyone cracked jokes had a jolly old time pooh-poohing the religious crazies who proposed such an idea.  “It’s the end of the world as we know, and I feel fine.”  I believe that was the state of the world this weekend. 

But where does this put us? People now more than ever are going to see Christians as a bunch of loonies who believe absolute nonsense. One of my friends wrote something, the general idea of it being that the people who predicted the end of the world are more dangerous to Christianity than the Westboro Baptist Church that hates gays and soldiers, because everyone knows that the WBC is a small, loony sect that no one likes. But the end of the world group was made up of a large number of Christians who did not appear as WBC does. But now they have discredited Christianity in the common mind more than WBC has or will, at least in my opinion.