41%?? They gotta be kidding!! I wonder where the Pew Research Center chose their research sample. New Nazareth, Alabama? Canaan, in east Texas? Total Immersion, Mississippi?

There are some five Christian churches within a mile of where I live—Lutheran (Missouri Synod), Lutheran (ELCA), Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and Baptist—and I'll bet a cookie—a whole gross of chocolate chip cookies—that, were I to take a poll of the congregations of these churches, I'll wager that I would be hard-pressed to find as many as five people who believe any of that!

As a matter of fact, I know of one church that held a couple of adult forums on the "Left Behind" series of books and its prophesied "Rapture" and the subsequent Battle of Armageddon. The discussion pretty well established how there is absolutely nothing Biblical about any of that, and revealed that Tim La Haye, who authored the books (and movies) had, as of several years ago, netted himself some $60,000,000 in royalties by trying to scare the crap out of ignorant and gullible people.

I wonder how these folks who are defaulting on their bills and quitting their jobs and doing all sorts of other things in preparation for ascending to Heaven on May 21st are going to feel when May 22nd rolls around.

Well—if that doesn't get them, there's always December 21, 2012. According to Biblical prophecy (What!? Again!?), Nostradamus, Art Bell and a couple others like him on late night radio, and interpretations of the Mayan Calendar, on 12/21/12, the earth will come to an end by various violent means. It will swap poles, flipping over 180 degrees, causing massive earthquakes, thousand foot tsunamis, and unimaginable winds.

This will be caused by the earth crossing the Galactic Equator (arbitrary line that astronomers don't agree on as to location, nor do they pay much attention to). The Galactic Equator is supposed to be 110 light-years due south (galactic coordinates). Since that appointment is supposed to take place about a year and a half from now, we'd better get a move on!

Now, if that isn't bad enough, as all that is happening, the earth will be struck by a large asteroid, just before it's sucked into a black hole which will just happen to be passing through the solar system at the time.

I'm not making this up! It's all prophesied!

Make sure you have enough beer in the fridge.

Don Firth