One Step Ahead of God…

It has been one week, and apparently, God’s forth-telling of the apocalypse was wrong. Apparently, he was not a communications major; he seems to only have a charismatic and condescending voice. In fact some people say, he says it with conviction and passion. Others feel that he gets irritated from time to time and needs to exude some pent up rage he has against mankind. And still, to some, he completely missed the mark last Saturday.

In case, you missed, and realistically, we all missed it, the rapture was set to happen last week. True story to say the least. 6pm rolled around over all of the time zones and nothing happened. What seemed to be the most intriguing aspect of this “prophecy,” if it could be called that, was that the prophet had missed the mark for the second time. There is some semblance of crying wolf in this story. Fear and panic rain down on some of the faith-based individuals and the mindset of scarcity ushers a new paradigm. From this view, Christians seem more holier than thou, have all the right answers, scary, crazy, and as though they were elementary school children. From their perspective, they have the word of the lord. In short, they use God in their cause. In the Christian world, God is the ultimate trump card.

Franciscan Priest Richard Rohr states,

“You cannot argue with a man who enrolls God in his cause. It puts a stop to all further healthy dialogue…such a person assumes that he possesses God and understands God’s will perfectly, and you don’t…they communicate loudly and clearly that they don’t need you, or even need to respect you. They already have the answers, and they have found salvation — without you — because they have God in their pocket.“
 

These prophecies are devoid of compassion, love, hope, and grace. Prophecies as such are based solely on self-preservation, rather than bringing good news to everyone. Instead of hope, dread and chaos run amuck. But you see, they use God in their argument. It somehow adds a certain validity to their claims. For a faith-based individual, there is no reason to argue, because God is already in the equation. God was pulled out of someone’s sleeve in order to validate a claim. Once someone does, the argument has lost any real nuance of rational. There ceases to be any healthy dialogue. 

See the issue becomes, people use him to justify every claim they can make. Christians will typically back away from the argument, while the rational individual will negate the conversation. Again who wants to argue with God? Personally, I am frustrated by people’s claims of god’s will and plan, when it applies to justification, hedonism, and arrogance. Honestly, where does this attitude come from? I mean these types of cry wolf scenarios only seem to make God look like scum, full of hatred and chaos. And interesting enough, it makes Christians look like frauds.  

How does the world view us, when we make false claims about the end of the world, judge a person’s lifestyle, or claim a doctrine of hate and intolerance down a person’s throat?

My opinion, like mentality unstable fools, quite possibly frauds and charlatans. 

How do these claims make you feel?