Lies, Ignorance, and Murder

I have several topics to touch on, none substantial enough for a post on its own, although there is a thread through all of these.

Perhaps the most difficult part about writing this post was to come up with a title that tied it all together.  I found the title from a line in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, “Hocus Pocus.”

“…we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE”

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President Obama recently spoke at the United Nations:

Out of the ashes of the Second World War, having witnessed the unthinkable power of the atomic age…

Truman had no trouble thinking of it.

Do I believe in this as fulfillment to Biblical prophecy?  I don’t spend any energy on such things.  God doesn’t need my help or good wishes to blow up the world (assuming He actually has some desire to do this, which I do not assume).  He does call me to peace; if He has something else in mind, I leave this in His hands.

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I conclude with one thought:

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Heavy, I know.  I didn’t plan to arrive here when I began the journey of this post.

I don’t view any of this as a sign of end times.  There have been many men of lawlessness in the intervening 2000 years – some that put today’s lawless men to shame in terms of depravity.  No end times brought on by any of them; I see nothing special about these times.

Nothing special beyond the proliferation of nuclear weapons hanging over the heads of all of humanity.

There is a lawless one today, one who places himself in the position of God, above all others.

Here is his symbol.

Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.