just minishorts.

I sometimes suspect that Doomsday Evangelists are celebrating the Devil more than they are celebrating Christ's gift of life for us.

There you have it. A controversial suspicion to think about, and oh yes, the obvious declaration that minishorts is back to her anti-end-of-times rant all over again.

Just a few months ago, someone who has put her entire heart and soul into proclaiming God's kingdom so that it comes the soonest possible told me that a very very pure soul and one who is loved by Christ, will only need to listen, and 'She will be able to hear trumpets sounding in the sky.'

I now say that if one day comes and I can suddenly hear triumphant trumpets in the sky I would go straight to a doctor to find out if there's something wrong with my brain.

The other day some guy at a church told me Revelations is coming through because with the invention of bio-chips, we will all bear the sign of the devil. Unless of course you are a good Christian because a good Christian will refuse to bear the sign of the devil.

'So what are you doing then?'
'we should all be very afraid … because God is coming to judge.'
'So you're living life in fear is it?'
'Yes, we should be.'
'So is being Christian means living life in fear?'
'Not of God, but of the devil.'
'But believing in God means you should not be afraid of the devil mah.'
'I'm Christian because I want to go to heaven. That's a promise…'

I apologize for the leading questions, but damn it (pardon me)… why you guys so greedy one. You become Christian because of a candy-ticket. And that's not very nice of you at all.

Recently also several caring people have told me that I must read Mary K Baxter's A Divine Revelation of Hell. Well I read it and I think it is a piece of rubbish written by a woman who probably suffers from hallucinating spells.

Either I'm being paranoid or this observation is true, there IS a certain revival of End-Times-Theory in many evangelical churches. The interesting thing is several leaders have mentioned that the earthquakes and tsunamis and the ongoing wars around the world are signs of the end-of-days, and that we should be afraid, we should be very afraid. Never-mind that earthquakes are natural geological phenomena, and never mind that wars have existed from the beginning of time, history just doesn't matter. Because this current world has to be more fallen than the ones that have existed since time, so we have to be in it. Christ is riding the clouds soon.

CHIEW. SO STUPID AND PRESUMPTUOUS, okay? I beh-tahan. Why? Because civilizations have fallen and risen and we have been through this so many many times since over 2000 years ago. Of course I also view that Revelations is thick with allegory, hence my opinion that should not read it as is. Except of course very few people share this view with me… and I'm fine that, really.

I just wish that those of you who are so convicted in your beliefs will remain just that, convicted, and not force me to agree with you.

It's true. This girl has very little patience for people who insist that Christ will come and break through the clouds on his chariots of fire, because people who insist on reading the Book of Relevations LITERALLY probably agree also that GARFIELD is a cat that can really talk. I usually just keep my tongue because I'm outnumbered by the masses, most Christians I know can't wait for the world to end.

What if you're like me, someone who keeps saying that, 'Come on lah, stop obsessing over the Book of Relevations. It's not a book of doom, it ought to be a book of comfort, a book of solace, a reminder to believers that no matter what (end of days included) let us not fear (death, or end of days) because Christ is with us, and therefore we are saved.'

Where I come from, having this kind of observation and understanding makes me a prodigal child. Interestingly when Christians gather they like to discuss the end of the world a lot, as if the bunch of us are so tortured by the inequalities of the world and we can't do anything about this suffering so we keep on praying that God will send his judgement soon.

It's as if so many of us are all waiting for the last day to say to our detractors, 'HAH, PADAN MUKA. NOW YOU DIE IN HELL. I LIVE IN HEAVEN. WHEE WHEE I AM SO HAPPY.'

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Today, I'm making this a very open statement, 'I DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU. AND I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD STOP CELEBRATING THE DEVIL BY PUSHING FORTH YOUR END-TIMES-THEORY. GOD CAME TO SAVE US FROM SIN, NOT SCARE US INTO BECOMING A BUNCH OF HEAVEN-GREEDY MATERIALISTIC FOOLS.'

Some of you are going to start praying for me right now, that God will speak to me and show me the true path. I know it because you are predictable and boring like that.

Fine, whatever makes you tick. Go tick in your own space though. I'm functioning quite well here. Really, since I'm not about to change your minds, and you're not about to convince me that you're right, I hope the Revelation-preachers will stay far far away from this blog. Forever and ever, yay.