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"I'll have an Armageddon."

Let anything rule your life enough and it will ruin it. Moderation applies to everything, and especially "beliefs."

What arrogance we show by assuming our own societies are so much more advanced in science, politics, technology and understanding, than ancient civilizations, while at the same time being convinced that the ones that were brutal enough to slaughter all of the others, knew more about God and morality than we do.

Of course, if any of those ancient civilizations had had the nuclear technologies we have, none of us would even be here today, because they would have quite literally decided to end their arguments about god by deciding the whole world deserves to meet its maker.

And following in the footsteps of their Old Testament God, they would’ve sacrificed their sons like Isaac and Jesus, by blowing the entire world to kingdom come. But today, people with those same "beliefs" are being voted into office again.

Considering the fact that Christianity has always been a self fulfilling prophecy, which is why Christians continue to believe it, it would do well to remember that their own "holy book" ends with Armageddon. 

And they want Armageddon, so they can bomb all human understanding back to the stone ages.

After all, how do we know they haven’t done it before already? And maybe more than once.

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