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The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

“Over the past few days there have been a fire at a house in Cleveland, another earthquake in Southern California, an explosion at an underground coal mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, and the gruesome discovery of a woman’s body near a Cleveland highway. It seems like there are a lot more disasters and traumatic activities recently even more than usual.”

Over the past few days there have been a fire at a house in Cleveland, another earthquake in Southern California, an explosion at an underground coal mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, and the gruesome discovery of a woman’s body near a Cleveland highway.
It seems like there are a lot more disasters and traumatic activities recently even more than usual.
The Catholic Church bases its apocalyptic prophecies on messages from a heavenly source, various recent apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. These messages which have appeared in places like at Fatima (1917), La Salette (1840s) and reportedly today at Medjugorje (in former Yugoslavia) and supposedly warn that humanity is about to suffer an increase in natural disasters, representing God’s justice and divine wrath due to the increase of sin in the world today. Catholics agree, as our heavenly Mother is warning that the times of the apocalypse are upon us.
Although everybody is entitled to their own opinion, is it really necessary to shove it down other peoples’ throats? There is always disaster, death, and fear, and hearing the constant ramblings of the uber-religious isn’t a convincing argument to the supposed approaching apocalypse. The church proclaiming that the end is near every time a cluster of disasters happens starts to make you wonder, will it ever really happen?
For hundreds and thousands of years disasters, disease and serial killers have plagued the world and we are all still here alive and kicking.
Many believe that the end is coming on December 21, 2012. A Hollywood movie was created based on this phenomenon. This date was chosen based on the Mayan Calendar, which does not continue after December 21st. The Mayans were not the only people to predict the end of the world. Incan and Egyptian calendars, as well as with the prophecies of Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, the I Ching, Hopi Indians, along with a slew of wackos have indicated that the apocalypse will occur in December 2012. According to this belief, we still have more than two years to prepare ourselves for the end, if it’s even coming.
In the eyes of the Catholic Church, the end could come at anytime. They believe that when the apocalypse is upon us, God will start with a warning. This warning will come in the form of complete isolation. Every person in the world will not be able to find any other living being. The purpose of this warning is to give us time to reflect on our lives and repent for our sins. But here is the thing, the more you keep telling people that it’s the end of the world, the less they will believe you.
If one day you find yourself wandering alone in the world, it may be time to repent for your sins, or possibly just a wake up call to stop doing so many drugs.

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