Posthuman Blues

I just saw the following ad while logged into my Yahoo Mail account: http://secure.agoramedia.com/index_leftbehind.html

This Tim LaHaye guy is one extremely creepy character. And he simply doesn't understand prophecy, his stated field of expertise. Prophecy is all about foretelling possible futures so that steps can be taken to prevent the bad ones, much how science fiction novels like "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984" were written as cautionary fables. This guy seriously wants "Armageddon" to happen, since it would provide the capstone for his own perverted belief system. And he's got a financial empire rooted in the dispersal of religious fear and "End Times" misery: an infrastructure of terror that adapts to the political zeitgeist with the veracity of a virus.

And we're supposed to be afraid of Saddam Hussein?