Worth reading...
Bill Moyer's acceptance speech for some environmental award. The award isn't important, and neither is the speech. What's important is that Meryl Streep presented the award.
The speech is good, too, even though it'll give you nightmares. It's about Christian apocalypse nuts who actually want to destroy the environment (not to mention paint the entire Middle East a nice shed of crimson) because they think it foretells the End Times - glorious days when they, and they alone, will be saved, while the rest of us will writhe in psychotic agony while feasting on each other's putrefying corpses as they look on smugly from on high. They cheerfully tell this stuff to their children.
Its outline is rather simple, if bizarre (the British writer George Monbiot recently did a brilliant dissection of it and I am indebted to him for adding to my own understanding): once Israel has occupied the rest of its "biblical lands," legions of the anti-Christ will attack it, triggering a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. As the Jews who have not been converted are burned, the Messiah will return for the rapture. True believers will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to heaven, where, seated next to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts, and frogs during the several years of tribulation that follow.
I'm not making this up.
