The Conservative Idiots List Gets Rapturous
This week’s Top Ten Conservative Idiots List isn’t very interesting. The bit about pro-life blogger Pete Shinn digging himself into a hole, along with the entry on Katherine Harris going crazy were rather entertaining, but nearly all the rest were examples of mundane idiocy. I’m starting to believe that the authors will go to any length to make sure Bush gets on the list at least once. The bit about the pig seemed contrived.
One entry stood out this week, however. There is a website called Rapture Ready that serves as an online community for people who are eagerly awaiting the Second Coming. The Idiots List quoted some posts from the Rapture Ready forums that are simultaneously comical and pathetic. The idiots posting in that forum take the violence and suffering in the world as a sign that the Second Coming will be soon.
The comedy, for me anyway, is that they believe there is something unique about the violence and chaos today. We had a few decades of relative calm before things started getting crazy everywhere, but the world has always been chaotic. There’s nothing new about it, nothing significant about it, and nothing unique about it. So I find it humorous to see people ignore a few thousand years of human history in their own self-importance. We have much simpler and more independent lives than our ancestors, with longer life spans, better medical technology, more entertainment options, more security and more conveniences. Unless you are living in North Korea or under some other repressive regime, life can be really good. I suppose that makes the prospect of war and terror more alarming, but I chuckle at the thought of one of those rapturous zealots being dropped in the middle of 8th century Europe.
What I find pathetic is that such people take so much pleasure in the suffering of others. “Oh, look! The Middle East is in chaos and hundreds are dying every day! Natural disasters are killing people all over the world! People are starving to death in drought-stricken lands and the threat of disease looms at our doorstep! Oh, happy day!” This is one of many reasons why I think that the world would be a much better place without organized religion. But that’s another post for another day.
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