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Apocalypse NOW!
Feb. 8th, 2006 02:47 pmWhat do we want? Apocalypse! When do we want it? NOW!
Pastors hope to spread Gospel, hasten End Time
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Pastors of some of the largest evangelical churches in America met Tuesday in Inglewood to polish strategies for starting 5 million new churches worldwide in 10 years, an effort they say they hope will hasten the End Time.
The Rapture and Second Coming of Jesus have always been the ultimate goal of evangelicalism. But when that would occur was any Christian's guess.
The Global Pastors Network's "Billion Souls Initiative" aims to shorten the path to Judgment Day by partnering church resources with the latest communications systems to spread the Gospel of Jesus.
In an interview at Faith Central Bible Church in Inglewood, James Davis, president of the campaign, said, "Jesus Christ commissioned his disciples to go to the ends of the Earth and tell everyone how they could achieve eternal life. As we advance around the world, we'll be shortening the time needed to fulfill that great commission.
"Then, the Bible says, the end will come."
Added Davis: "The current generation may actually live long enough to see this."
I don't think I can express how disturbing I find the Left-Behind cruel, perverse iteration of fear-of-death. It goes beyond the standard Christian fantasy of eternal life, it mediates the fear of the moment-of-death through the belief that they will be taken into heaven ALIVE. The entire paradigm is a hysterical response to the fear of mortality. It's not that the believers are resurrected (as per St.Paul's comparatively existential sermons), it's that True Believers Don't Have To Die! And Everyone Else Does! Up Yours, Unbelievers! This line of thought strips Christianity of ANY metaphystical depth and, I guess, the leap of faith that is inherent in the knowledge of one's own mortality and the belief in resurrection. Fuck resurrection! These evangelists believe that they are in the express line at the airport, they reverse-en passant themselves into heaven. I really think they want to bring the apocalypse about to minimize their chances of dying before they can be raptured. It's a version of creepy that transcends into a culture-bound syndrome.
Pastors hope to spread Gospel, hasten End Time
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Pastors of some of the largest evangelical churches in America met Tuesday in Inglewood to polish strategies for starting 5 million new churches worldwide in 10 years, an effort they say they hope will hasten the End Time.
The Rapture and Second Coming of Jesus have always been the ultimate goal of evangelicalism. But when that would occur was any Christian's guess.
The Global Pastors Network's "Billion Souls Initiative" aims to shorten the path to Judgment Day by partnering church resources with the latest communications systems to spread the Gospel of Jesus.
In an interview at Faith Central Bible Church in Inglewood, James Davis, president of the campaign, said, "Jesus Christ commissioned his disciples to go to the ends of the Earth and tell everyone how they could achieve eternal life. As we advance around the world, we'll be shortening the time needed to fulfill that great commission.
"Then, the Bible says, the end will come."
Added Davis: "The current generation may actually live long enough to see this."
I don't think I can express how disturbing I find the Left-Behind cruel, perverse iteration of fear-of-death. It goes beyond the standard Christian fantasy of eternal life, it mediates the fear of the moment-of-death through the belief that they will be taken into heaven ALIVE. The entire paradigm is a hysterical response to the fear of mortality. It's not that the believers are resurrected (as per St.Paul's comparatively existential sermons), it's that True Believers Don't Have To Die! And Everyone Else Does! Up Yours, Unbelievers! This line of thought strips Christianity of ANY metaphystical depth and, I guess, the leap of faith that is inherent in the knowledge of one's own mortality and the belief in resurrection. Fuck resurrection! These evangelists believe that they are in the express line at the airport, they reverse-en passant themselves into heaven. I really think they want to bring the apocalypse about to minimize their chances of dying before they can be raptured. It's a version of creepy that transcends into a culture-bound syndrome.
