Blog, Videos - Friday, November 19, 2010 17:08 - 2 Comments

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Check this out.  I know it’s painful, but sometimes good medicine doesn’t that great.

It is comforting to many that should the nuclear holocaust ever happen we will be reunited in happy happy joy joy land with our friends, family, and pets. Even creepy uncle John will be there, but this time he won;t touch you there – I promise.  However, this warm fuzzy feeling has no bearing on reality.  Truth does not care if you believe it, nor does it bend to comfort our fragile minds.

What should really worry you is the darker side to this mode of thinking.  Even now there are fervent, faithful believers seeking to employ 21st Century technologies to bring about armageddon and herald the greatest event in history – the return of Jesus (or some other apocalyptic messiah).  Anyone with an milligram of self preservation should find this idea terrifying.

Of course, there is a very slim chance these people might actually be right, however if they are wrong (and every indication leads to this conclusion) then all they would achieve is the destruction of the only planet in the universe we know supports the miracle of life. Yeah, I used the word.  Sue me.

Atheists are frequent spectators to the long dead corpse of Pascal’s wager being wheeled out and electrically shocked to dance one again; this is the horrifying flip side.  If believers are wrong about Jesus swinging from the clouds like the swashbuckling saviour he’s reported to be, then we’ll all just be dead.  Worse still, even the pious will not fully appreciate the vastness of the void beyond the vale of death before it’s too late.  Dead is a long time.

Sweet dreams.