Oh joy, oh Rapture–there’s a growing belief that the end of the world is at hand. This outlook can be dangerous to our planet, warns Bill Moyers–because if you are looking forward to the Rapture, then here are some of the signs of the end that are good things: famine, drought, plagues, global climate change,….
What happens next, wonders Moyers, if “environmental destruction is not
only to be disregarded but actually welcomed – even hastened – as a
sign of the coming apocalypse.”
If you think Moyers’s concern is overblown, consider the case of the
apocalyptic red heifer.
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Born-again Christians teamed up with fundamentalist Jews to breed a flawless red heifer. But this story is not meant to have a happy ending–except for the fanatics trying to set it in motion.
The Jewish group wants to sacrifice
The Christian group hopes for a different scenario–after a fierce The perfect heifer will be ready to sacrifice in April, 2005, at a time when Israeli fundamentalists are already said to be plotting to strike at Islamic shrines. At least one Israeli has called this little red cow “a four-legged bomb.” If this bomb goes off in Israel next month, American apocalypticists will have helped to light the fuse. |
