There's two kinds of crazy in this world. Good crazy, and bad crazy.
This would be an example of the first kind (hat tip, Jason, and click through for the big version):
Who on earth thought this up and then spent the time to put it together? You've got to be a little bit crazy -- the good kind. The world needs more of this.
And then, there's the other kind of crazy. (No, I am not going to take a swipe at Ann Coulter, other people are doing a great job of that already). Who would have thought that a nominally neutral news station like CNN would broadcast something like this?
For the second time in three days, CNN featured a segment on the potential coming of the Apocalypse, as indicated by current conflicts in the Middle East. The July 26 edition of CNN's Live From ... featured a nine-minute segment in which anchor Kyra Phillips discussed the Apocalypse and the Middle East with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg -- who share the view that the Rapture is nigh. At one point in the discussion, Phillips asked Rosenberg whether she needed "to start taking care of unfinished business and telling people that I love them and I'm sorry for all the evil things I've done," to which Rosenberg replied: "Well, that would be a good start."
There's a large number of TV stations where this issue gets discussed regularly. But none of them (until recently) have been CNN, and that's how it should be. The possible coming of the Apocalypse is NOT news, it's a religious belief. It is in a completely different category from the rest of the news of the day and should be treated as such. It's crazy to think otherwise. The bad kind of crazy.
Disclaimer: Yes, I am being very flip about the use of the word crazy in this post. Consider it a lame attempt to be funny and smash two very different topics into one unified blog post. Mental illness is a serious issue, I know. Don't get your hate on.
Comments (3)
I don't know what's scarier. Maraschino cherries never go bad, or that I have a jar of peanut butter in my cabinet that I bought 6 months ago... And had a sandwich from it last night.
Posted by Off Colfax | July 27, 2006 12:31 PM
Even a quart of mayonnaise gone bad isn't nearly as scary as those Rapture ghouls.
Posted by Tom Hilton | July 28, 2006 12:28 PM
It might surprise you that I take offense at the CNN story on the apocalypse as well. First, because it isn't a subject for sensationalizing on CNN. Secondly, Joel Rosenberg and Jerry Jenkins are a pair of fiction writers, not theologians. Their credentials for discussing such a subject are non-existent. And finally, because of the anti-Christian bias demonstrated by the attitude of the coverage.
There is no certainty that there will be a rapture. That's based on some shaky theology. It's mighty conforting to think that you might be raptured, but I won't bet my life on it.
Posted by artistry | July 31, 2006 1:40 PM