Thomas_More
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I wasn’t absolving the Catholic Church but simply pointing out its members are not obsessed with the end of the world, unlike those evangelical sects who talk about nothing else.
Clarendon, in his History, ridicules the evangelicals of his day for reading into the Bible events contemporary with their own time, which they still do.
I have seen books on medieval “end of time” beliefs. Of course, today’s evangelicals are the ones for all that now, and, disgustingly, many appear eager for “Armageddon”, since they have no love for life here and now on Earth. This is also true of Eastern Orthodox fanatics; but the Catholic Church today is not Armageddonist and instead more invested in charity work and aid projects.
Of course, unlike in the past, humans now have the capacity for global extermination, taking the rest of all life on Earth with them. They also, if only they would wake up to it, have the means to create a paradise on Earth; and that’s why we are socialists.
Many thanks for your kind words.
Then why do the capitalists spend trillions on such weapons they don’t intend using, and billions too on luxury furnished nuclear bunkers for themselves – not to mention radiation-proof aircraft for the Heads of state to use to survey a post-nuclear landscape?
I’ve gone through my Youtube history and deleted all doom and gloom channels. I’ve also deleted all doom and gloom Google searches, and am limiting my TV news to BBC red button.
I am in the same position, and believe me, I am not trying to instil pessimism. If I have, i’m sorry.
For me, cheering up is achieved with vintage movies and innocuous reading (from books, not screen), such as Raymond Chandler for now.Not really, because we’ll never need any paper again.
Today’s nuclear missiles EACH have multiple warheads: that’s EACH ONE multiple thermo-nuclear bombs, thousands of times more powerful than what struck Hiroshima.
Nor would only one or two of these missiles be fired, but hundreds.Safe to say, we would all, on these islands, be obliterated in seconds.
But, despite all this, the DPP president of Taiwan herself has NOT proclaimed independence, and the US will advise her not to.
The Kuomintang are also mounting anti-independence marches, and that should satisfy China, which will nonetheless continue flexing its military might, as it has always done whenever independence is hinted at.
Thanks, ALB, for the elucidation. I am no longer bothering with Youtube videos on the subject. One can easily get sucked into catastrophism.
Yes, but in 1962 the Soviet Union was not facing war on its borders, threatening its regime’s existence, so it could back down.
