Curt Sibling said:
"An athiest is someone who will not accept any god till he/she experiences it.
So you assume we will all be enslaved by religion at some point. "
Heh, heh. Well, when Jesus descends onto earth at the head of Jehovah's army, and destroys the forces of Satan at Har-Mageddon, I have little doubt that you and the other atheists will get all the proof you need. Unfortunately, I don't think that will help you very much, since you've been ignoring prophecies that are coming true as we speak for the last half-century or so.
Let's see, quick re-cap...
The nation of Israel is no longer cursed by god to wander homeless, as their sentence of exile runs out circa 1950 (it was a 2500 year sentence, and started about 550 years before Christ's birth). 23 years later, a pseudo-world government uproots the Palestinians from the land they've lived on for fifteen centuries, and returns it to the nation of Israel.
"And he broke open the third seal, and a great wind arose, and smashed a third of the ships at sea, and a third of the port cities were laid waste." Ships and ports are frequently used to allude to trade in the Bible, and 'a third' is used symbolically to represent a large portion of any whole. If the last few years don't count as a serious blow to the economy, I don't know what does. It even seems to be continuing to get worse.
"Nation will rise against nation..." Need I say more? Well, just in case...since the establishment of that self-aggrandizing multi-headed organization called the UN, created to foster peace in the world, the earth has seen 3 weeks in which no nation was egaged in armed conflict against another, or against armed insurrectionists within its own borders.
"Children will turn away from their parents..." Now I know you're going to say that kids have always rebelled, but if you think about it, you'll know that that 'revolt' has never been anything like what we see today. Kids used to run a little wild, nowadays they are nihilistic, self-serving, amoral, and anti-social to a degree hithertofore unheard of. So don't even tell me that we're not seeing anything unusual.
Now those are just prophecies that have already come true. I'm sure you're wondering, 'But what about stuff yet to come? What else does your silly book predict?'
Well, look for the Beast of Apocalypse (that 10-horned, 7-headed monstrosity that constantly spouts grandiose claims, IE the United Nations) to throw down and make barren it's rider, the Whore of Babylon (IE false religion, you know, bathes in the blood of the innocent by encouraging both sides in wars, see WWII for full details).
What that means is that at some point in the near future, say a decade tops, religion is going to lose most of its protected status. Say, aren't we taxing churches in the US now? How much longer will the Vatican be hoarding its Nazi gold?
Islam is just the first shot in the war on religion. World opinion against Islam is already at an all-time high. Judaism, thanks to Israel's mind-boggling stupidity in fanning the flames of anti-Semitism by ignoring all attempts at peace-making in the region, is in a close second. Once those two are firmly smacked down, the Vatican will likely be the next target in the cross-hairs, and all that Nazi gold will be taken, by force if need be, and a great many old Catholics in fancy pants arrested for harboring war criminals, or at least post-humously charged with the crimes. From there it won't be long until just about every religion goes on the executioner's block.
Truly, the whore of Babylon will become naked and barren, with her fleshy parts (money and real estate) devoured by the Beast (siezed by the UN).
Huh, well, that wasn't so quick. Sorry.
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