When a religious person of extreme views says that he’s going to burn a Koran, the media speedily descends on him with universal derision. On rare occasions, a child suffers or dies because parental faith won’t allow transfusions. One could easily believe that the Assoc. Press has a dedicated staff of people who specialize in finding obscure Christians to mock and malign.
Recently, a Protestant of a very conservative bent predicted that “The Rapture” would take place a few days ago. The very same pundits who began deriding him when his prediction was publicized increased their mockery when it didn’t look as if any souls had been snatched from the earth.
Early this week, it was reported that one Oklahoma teenager was driving in a large, heavy Hummer. The sun roof was open. When the car got too close to, if not actually under, the tornado, he was plucked out of the passenger seat, pulled through the sun roof, and literally disappeared into thin air.
Nearly five hundred are known to have been killed. Hundreds more, like the young man yanked out of the vehicle, are missing. To date, no one has suggested the remotest possibility of a connection between a prediction that people would dramatically be taken away from us and those actual people who were actually taken from us in a most dramatic way.
Oddly, when the state-run media announces that we are all going to die from global freezing, warming, famine, overpopulation, drought, rising sea levels, and pollution, those prognosticators are given respect and status by our governments. They are, in light of the unfortunate young man pulled from his Hummer near the appointed date of “The Rapture”, far less credible than the pastor who prophesied and saw at least a small version of his prophecy actually come to happen very near the predicted time.
