No Life Lived In Fear For Me... (Or, Why I shouldn't watch YouTube after 12 AM...)

I know I've been absent for a bit. I have a blog I'm working on about the nature of the human condition and whether or not we are, as Anne Frank mused, "truly good at heart." I'm still in the research phase.

This is not that blog.

This one will be short, and slightly angry.

I'm tired of "prophets" who predict when the end of the world, or Armageddon, will be. (The latest I heard was 2032.) Matthew 24:36 states plainly that no one will know the hour or day of His second coming. Not a person. Not the angels. Not even the Son.

Only the Father.

So stop it! That's all I really want to say here. Stop scaring people. You aren't actually scaring anyone out of Hell, you're just scaring Christians into either fevered over-action, or petrified inaction. Stop giving the name "Christian" a sour taste in the mouths of people who weren't (or sometimes were) raised in the church. We look bad enough right now as it is.

Yes, we should be aware that there will be an end to our world as we know it. But living as if today could be the last should be joyful. It should make us want to live larger, give more and love better. If you are living in fear of the end, how can you fully be alive in the present moment?

Also, those who dwell too much on predicting Armageddon and decifering the "end times" prophecies are dwelling on unanswerables. (Yup... I just made that word up.) If we are explictly told that we won't know, then prediction is futile.

Tomorrow... the world could end... or you could walk in front of a car. Anything is possible. So live to the fullest... and live without fear.

Fear is evil. Live in love.

Your slightly angry, Youtube wathin' friend,
K