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39 Doomsday & Doomsday Cults 39 Doomsday & Doomsday Cults Doomsday & Doomsday bombs. The odds of any of these things banking—they turn to the Bible or someone like Doomsday & Doomsday Cults happening are small, but they are not Nostradamus for guidance. There have always Cults impossible. Whether you should worry about been people who see catastrophic events as Continued from Page 38 them is up to you. But you might want to think signs that the end is near, yet an understanding Continued from Page 38 twice before scaring your children into thinking of history and science should console us: every that the end is at hand. One plausible scenario is generation has seen catastrophic events, some Many myths report doomsday events, that our sun dies and the planet becomes a generated by nature and some generated by our but they usually provide no way to test their frozen mass some five billion years from now. fellow human beings. There has never been a claims. If they do, the claims don't stand up to Nobody will be around to observe it, however, time when things weren't uncertain and scientific scrutiny. When scientists claim that since all life on Earth will have been dangerous for human groups, from families to there have already been doomsday events on extinguished millions or billions of years tribes to nations. Earth, such as being hit with a giant meteoroid earlier. some 65 million years ago, they produce (My sage and cheerful editor, John evidence and counter-evidence, and argue until Renish, adds: It is more likely to be the pre- Saviors the claim is either rejected or accepted by the human or pre-biotic world than the Adam & Eve majority of those in the field. When scientists Associated with some doomsday beliefs tell us that we could get hit again by another world, should some of these things happen.* is the notion that before the end comes some Astronomers generally believe that the Sun will huge object from outer space, we take them sort of savior will arrive to warn everybody. seriously and do not wonder if their revelation expand to a tenuous red giant whose outer These saviors have been many, but the best- atmosphere might well engulf the Earth before came from an all-knowing being from the Great known is Jesus of Nazareth (or Bethlehem) Beyond. In fact, there have been several mass shrinking to a white dwarf. If it expands known as the Christ and Savior to a billion or so enough, the Earth will spiral into the extinctions of species (more than 99% of all the atmosphere, but in any case will be burnt to a Christians. Jesus seems clearly to have taught species that have ever existed on Earth are cinder. At least we wouldn't have to worry about that the end of the world and the Second extinct). We could be rendered extinct from freezing to death. On the other hand, nobody Coming was at hand. That was 2,000 years ago. solar flares, gamma ray bursts, super novae, or who reads your site will ever have to worry Some are still waiting for the messiah. In the black holes, to name just a few of the ways about something that happens in 5 billion years. meantime, several messiahs have come and nature could get rid of us. Our whole galaxy gone. could be swallowed up by some other galaxy. Most species die out in a few tens of million the seventeenth-century, for example, it years at most, so none of your readers or their We could be blasted by another huge meteoroid. was widely believed in England that the end of We could see our species depleted to the descendants will likely see the end, either.) the world was at hand. One of the leading rabbis Most end-times doomsayers seem to be (metaphorical) Adam and Eve stage from a of the time and a teacher of Spinoza, Menasseh massive plague caused by the release of some unmoved by the enormous amount of scientific Ben Israel, let it be known that 1666 was the data available to anyone truly interested in the mighty microbe or by massive poisoning of our year the messiah would come. air, water, and food as globalization leads to end of the universe. Instead, when an event seems to them like an end-time event—such as universal deregulation of all industries in an (Continued on Page 40) attempt to expand world markets indefinitely. the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, or the We could blow up the planet with nuclear Get all the latest UFO News at recent (October 2008) collapse of world www.xzonenews.com The ‘X’ Zone Radio & TV Show The ‘X’ Zone Radio & TV Show DAVID CHAMPION is DAVID CHAMPION is Syndicated Syndicated Internationally Internationally by by The The TalkStar Psychic TalkStar Psychic Radio Network Radio Network with Readings with Readings Master Control Master Control and and Satellite Satellite Uplink Uplink in in Titusville, Titusville, Florida. Florida. www.davidchampion.com www.talkstarradio.com www.talkstarradio.com www.davidchampion.com