Fundies believe these are the Last Days, and the presence of LGBT pagans is but one more sign of calamities to come.
Don't say you weren't warned. Mark your desk calendar: 6/06/06 and stay snug-a-bed with a congenial friend and a challenging book (like "The Long Emergency"; James Howard Kunstler; Grove Press 2005). It's going to be a beastly day.
As in Mark of the Beast. Six.Six.Six. And, if you're up to it after the above recommended reading, have some Sex.Sex.Sex., before it's too late to give a damn, damn, damn about what's happening to this late, great planet earth.
In celebration of 6/6/'06 — if indeed there's cause for celebration — several media events are scheduled (actually none of earthshaking local, national, continental, universal, or cosmic numerical import).
21th Century Fox's remake of 1970 horror flick, "The Omen" opens as "Omen 666," to new and impressionable moviegoer audiences. Slayer, America's heavy metal racketeers, kicks off Unholy Alliance Tour, subtitled, "Preaching to the Perverted." And High Priestess of Sludge Ann Coulter's "Godless," hits the simple-sentence, right-wing bookstalls to snipe-swipe political and intellectual freethinkers — Humanists, Liberals, and lesbian folk singers.
Truth is stranger than friction. Oddball blogs report moms due to deliver on the Gospel Gollum's once-a-century outing are asking their OB-GYN docs for help in missing the Mark. (Wouldn't you know it, other moms, too perverse for their own maternal good, plan to be Tuesday on target, naming their kid Regan, as in "The Exorcist", if it's a girl, or Damien, "The Omen", if it's a boy.)
Fundies — gosh-darn-gullible lot — are hoping for some cataclysmic cue-in for The Antichrist, whose name, based on Hebrew, Greek or Latin (and English) letter numerical equivalents, adds up to 666, the "number of the beast," according to the New Testament's psychedelic book of Revelation. Even the internet is worrisome for these fear-as-folk, abacus heads. Hebrew number equivalent for w is 6: w.w.w.
This demonic numbers game is old toga. It started with "St. John," Revelation author, on the Isle of Patmos, circa 69 A.D. Suspect Antichrist candidates include then-contemporary Roman Emperor Nero, all popes, except Pope Joan (their honorific Latin title, Vicarius Filii Dei totals 666), Adolf Hitler, and, recently, Ronald Wilson Reagan (six letters each name), and George Walker Bush Jr. It depends on who's counting worry beads and how.
Says biblical smogster Stephen Hanchett, "The violence and destruction that began when Bush first entered office is now certain to culminate in the Apocalypse, as predicted in the Bible over 2,000 years ago." (http://isbushantichrist.blogspot.com)
Fundies believe these are the Last Days, and the presence of LGBT pagans is but one more sign of calamities to come. But because Jesus is returning really! really! soon, there's no need to be too overly concerned about endangered species, rain forest destruction, war carnage, nuclear holocaust, the military-industrial complex, hurricanes, government duplicity, voter abuse, the homeless, human rights, WMD, telephone spying, Tom Cruise, blah, blah, blah . . .
The Second Coming is just around everybody's busy Main St. corner, and only true believers are going to be saved and jerked heavenward to sing, shout, and finger-snap-it forever and a day. Hallelujah! (Sorry Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Scientologists, and better-late-than-never, Mary Cheney).
The scary truth of the matter is we're ALL stuck here. Smack dab! Nobody's going to bail us out of the global mess we've created. And we ALL need to be part of the solution rather than the problem. It's sink or swim; saint and/or sinner overboard.
Do read "The Long Emergency." It's a three-alarm environmental wake up call. (Like it or not, we're ALL in the same boat. And it ain't Noah's Ark.)
