Monday, May 15, 2006

Rapture Carelessness Interview

Many of you have heard of Jim Jones, the man that was able to create a religious cult that led to the mass suicide of close to a thousand people. I often use his story in debate with religious friends. They scoff at the comparison usually telling me how great a person Jesus was, blindly convincing themselves that what they believe is completely harmless.

BuzzFlash interviewed Stephanie Hendricks, author of:
Divine Destruction: Dominion Theology and American Environmental Policy. Her thesis is that corporate interests, with all-out government support, have exploited millions of American Christians by linking rampant environmental destruction with visions of Armageddon and the Rapture.

All this talk of the Rapture has caused a carelessness for the environment among Christians that is creating havoc for our future.

Read the Interview

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