MediaMatters, the sharpest eyes watching over the (nutso) media business, just informed us that extreme Christian media figures are saying Trump’s irrational war may be the beginning of the “End Times.”
Or the “Second Coming”. Or both.
Naturally, all this confuses me because I’m neither a Christian nor a crazy Christian. Do the End Times come before that Second Coming or after? Either way, it doesn’t make any sense to me.
But this isn’t about me. Because it can’t be.
Mostly, I’m contemplating how disorienting and disheartening it must be for Christians to be promised the End Times (or the other one) multiple times in their lives. Which we all know is true because social media inform us whenever The Word comes down from Christian media. They tell us what is being apocalyptically and imminently offered by extremist Christian talking heads.
Very, very often.
Don’t devoted credible Christians have moments of thinking, “Oh, no! That shit again? It didn’t happen the last hundred times and I’m supposed to believe it will happen, oh, next Wednesday?” Or do they grab their emergency bags every single time and wait for further instructions?
I mean, haven’t they tuned it out by now?