And to continue from yesterday....

What's most frightening is the complete and utter disconnect in people's minds. What used to be extreme is now commonplace; and I mean the forms of evangelical and fundamentalist christianity where items such as the rapture and revelations are discussed openly and rationally, as if they are rational subjects rather than the frankly insane topics that they are. But these are just the most extreme. I am always amazed at the lack of historical background people know about this supposedly sacred text...that Paul the apostle did not know jesus, that instead several decades after the death of said son of god he had a vision of him on the road....or the millennium long rule of the catholic church and what it became, or the traveling preacher who derived eschatology from the bizarre allegory that is revelations....they only know what some whackjob preacher tells them...they know nothing of basic subjects like geology, microbiology, or frankly even frontal systems in weather. The wealth of ignorance abound in an ordinary group of people could fuel an empire for centuries if convertible....and I am not speaking of a wrestling audience.