Most people are distraught and in anguish over the deaths of thousands of Japanese and the threat of multiple nuclear power plant meltdowns in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. And then there are the people who are celebrating like’s there’s no tomorrow. Why, pray tell would anyone react in this way? Obviously you aren’t a heartless soulless shameless fundamentalist rapture ready Christian or you’d be happy too:
As expected after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Christian fundamentalists are lining up to proclaim that we are in the End Times.
Earlier today, the Christian Broadcasting Network’s Gordon Robertson remarked that “the time of redemption is nigh” and that “the earth is in birthing pangs for the coming Messiah.”
Tim LaHaye, author of the Left Behind Series, was in Hawaii to address a 2-day prophecy conference. “‘Left Behind’ author sees Bible all over disaster,” screams a headline at WorldNet Daily.
Of course, maybe it’s because of all teh gay in Japan, or because the Japanese are all atheists. Or maybe it’s because they worship demons.
While I won’t pretend to understand everything that God does, His Word — the Bible — does teach us a lot regarding how He sometimes chooses to operate, particularly when people are in rebellion against Him. Having said that, I suspect that such a severe judgment from the Lord may possibly have something to do with the fact that there is a lot of demon worship in Japan. There are likenesses of demons all over Japan. I saw them firsthand when I lived there for almost three years a few decades ago. They are indeed hideous looking things, with long noses and mean-looking, fierce faces. It is my understanding that the Japanese believe that the evil faces scare away the bad spirits, but I must wonder if this is what is really happening.
What a nasty, horrible God is the one in which they believe. What nasty, horrible sentiments they have expressed in the wake of so much suffering by their fellow human beings. What a nasty, cynical thing they do to promote their own religion by using this tragedy and other recent catastrophic events to “win converts” for Jesus.
Naming them charlatans and hypocrites does not do justice to the utter lack of compassion that resides in their hearts.
