End-time warnings are stock-in-trade
for the literalists
who delight in making pronouncements
on behalf of the almighty.
These words tell of the fragility of
human existence,
of the imperative to mend our ways,
and of the need to be ready.
Accusations, betrayal, hatred, death!
(Rest assured, not a hair of your head
will perish!
Work that one out.)
Wars, earthquakes, famines, plagues
and other portents!
I was never much interested in
eschatological speculations.
And yet with the planet soon to bake in
an atmospheric oven,
and life as we know it most likely
changing for ever,
Darwin may yet prevail. If not over the
Almighty,
then at least over the self-declared
faithful.
All those biblical warnings about
end-times
are conveniently ignored by those who
doubt the science
and who also refuse to pay the cost.
It seems that the temple and the planet
might both be cast down,
neither of which would appear to have
much hope of restoration.
©
Ken Rookes 2016
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