What the film 2012 and the kidnapping of Christians have in common

Recently, my wife and I saw the movie reminded me of the 2012th nonsense that doomsday Christian fundamentalists (and I was once one of them) have on The Rapture - the return of Jesus to catch all his followers and whisk away the clouds, a sort of benign Judgement remained, while the coil in the madness of a world out of control - requiring the appearance of an Antichrist who rules the world.

What they have in common? InMy personal opinion, both are purely fictitious and are used just for fun.

For decades, Christians and Christian leaders had a neurotic fixation on future events. There are a number of relevant reasons.

First, the Church has failed in its mission. So instead of accepting that failure and find the answers inside, because the church and church leaders, Rather than in an imaginary future, one that is the selected project, the leavesWorld to meet, rejects convicted while they were saved by him. Therefore, the Church has more and more are exclusive in their narrow beliefs and evaluative virtually anyone was not his conception of moral values do not match and the story.

A second reason for the obsession with the future of the Church is that, because the Church was unable to save "the world", so to speak, has become more self-obsessed and concerned only to save themselves. This is the ego, a collectiveI, and part of the madness church. Perhaps you noticed that whenever there is a thorn in the moral or social anxiety, strife and political and international tension is a growing interest among Christians and religious leaders in the abduction and the return of Jesus A few years ago, for example, the growing interest in a popular book by Hal Lindsey called The Late Great Planet Earth is shown. But all expected Rapture and the end of the time duringeighties. When the eighties came and went, but interest waned in the abduction. Recently, however, has been a resurgence of widespread interest, including social partners, international and moral tensions increased. The current interest is the emergence of a new series of fiction books with the title of "left behind".