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.