I watched a documentary last night about the 'End Timers' in America. It reminds me so much of my southern Baptist upbringing. It made me a bit worried last night. Obviously the UK documentary was on a subtly anti-evangelical Christian bias, but it seemed like the facts were well supported. The one thing which has frightened me for a while now is that in places like Dallas which is one of the biggest cities on the holy bible belt thousands of people sit in one big room every Sunday listening to ONE MAN slapping his bible and preaching about this so-called end of days we are entering into. The documentary goes so far as to show that in every segment of the last century, these like-minded millions have focused on what they hate, so the evil forces connected to the apocalypse have changed from Hitler, to the Russians, and now, of course, to the middle east. It’s outrageous! On an environmental level, according to the End Timers' take on revelation, global warning is a part of the progression to the end so instead of taking the responsibility for the damage we have done to the ozone, these people are deep in a belief that the worse global warming gets, the closer they will be to a magical ascension into heaven. Tens of millions of Americans support this belief. Many of the End Timers support another belief: that the UN is the platform from which the Antichrist will rise. Is that not dangerous thinking? The UN, a body that has been sending forces into areas of Africa to try and sort out conflict, areas that most Americans don’t even know exist; a body that when it offers its support, it does so based on the belief in common decency and international human rights for all without thrusting some unwanted, negative, apocalyptic, extremist sect of one specific religion in their faces. The Rapture, The Tribulation, The Apocalypse, the Antichrist: these are all issues talked about in the ‘Left Behind’ series, the number one best-selling series in America of all time. And that scares me. The ‘Left Behind’ series is simply creative fiction based on a very exclusive translation of a very confusing book of the Bible. End Timers have bought these books and read them alongside their Bibles. There is much debate on whether or not John the Apostle, the supposed author of Revelation, actually wrote it at all. The writing style of revelation is so drastically different than that of the Gospel of John, that many cannot believe it is the same man. Modern thinking gives the possibility that John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, and John of Patmos are three different individuals. In the Channel 4 Documentary I watched, the Narrator, Tony Robinson went to the island of Patmos and found that very near to the cave in which the book was written grows a little fungus we lovingly refer to as “Magic Mushrooms”. I need not remind anyone of the strong visions one might have whilst on a mushroom trip. And is it absurd to think that the writer was on them? No. There is documentation that at the end of the Roman Empire, when Revelation was written, people of Patmos would fast and pray for days before drinking the mushroom brew, a perfect recipe for one hell of a trip. Maybe the book of Revelation was a vision connected to the fall of Rome, and empire that ruled 25% of the world’s population at the time.

Here is the address of a page about the documentary. HERE


It is truly scary the influence End Timers have on American politics and the strong connections they have with the White House. Would we have gone into Iraq if they had no oil? No. Would we have gone into Iraq if these extremist Christians did not influence the Bushes’ decisions?