Armageddon or??

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Peace means never having to say “I’m sorry.”

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Throughout human experience, we have honored countless gods. Some of them bore some resemblance to you. Most did not. All of them have, however, borne testimony to the human desire to know and worship you. What looks to us like idolatry and superstition does not change the longing to know you. The search for you apart from Jesus seems to me difficult, almost impossible. I’m glad you sent Him, but sorry we aren’t better at sharing the news He brought about you, the truth about you that sets us free to claim our place as your children.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Hello, darkness, my old friend.”

[Not what He said when He awoke in the tomb.]

D. Blog: God's on Our Side

Many Jews of Jesus’ time expected God to intervene in the struggle against Roman occupation. They assumed God was on their side. The destruction of Jerusalem should have ended such presumption of God’s favoritism in armed conflict. It might have demonstrated that God will not be forced to act, even if the cause is just, when “God’s people” resort to violence.

Too many of us still have not drawn those lessons. We still do not see that Jesus presented an alternative approach. We do not see that He was an alternative type of Messiah.

Predictors of Armageddon are latter-day variants of this misguided type of believer. They miss the mark on many fronts. They presume God wills such a tragedy for the world, when in truth God loves the world. They presume God will rescue them from the conflagration they envision. In their preoccupation with their imagined “end times,” they miss the blessings God provides in this life in this world. They deny the possibility and process of God’s dominion coming to Earth gradually and in a much less destructive manner.