Are We There Yet?

How many times have you said that phrase or heard your kids say it over and over again?  Most of us have had the experience of anxiously anticipating some future event.  When will we get there?  I expect a raise at my next evaluation;  When will I find the perfect mate;  Will the kids move out to attend college;  I am passed 60 but still do childish things - Will I ever be an adult?  I have experienced all of these events and thinking back on them brings back fond memories.  But let us turn our attention to a magnanimous event that hundreds of millions of people have been anticipating for a very long time.

This anxiously anticipated event just happens to be the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Now there have been many predictions about a forth coming rapture but they have all missed their mark and many people are still anxiously awaiting the promised return.  Other religions besides Christianity are waiting a future “universe altering” event as well.  Why is it taking so long?  Please, ask your god – why after thousands of years have they been unable to capture the attention of the entire planet?   After you get no reply, please ask the thousands of other gods of other religions the same question.  How can omnipotent gods be so incompetent?  Come on – 2,000 years and no religious organization is even slightly close to converting the world’s population and today the religious segments of society are more divided than ever.  Why isn’t the entire planet all on the same page if there was an omnipotent god in charge?  Zeus along with his court of Greek gods probably had a larger percentage of the Greek population of yesteryear than any of today’s modern religions. 

The gods and/or church leaders of our world have commissioned billions of people to sell their beliefs and there have been billions of books sold and billions of worship sessions and countless millions of slaughtered men, women, and children of rival religions and all that praying and all that promising and predicting that salvation is just around the next corner.  And yet, here we are after thousands of years, with thousands of religions, and with thousands of gods and angels and demons and there is still no sign of the end.  Are we there yet?  Will we ever get there?

Rodney Hinds

August 1, 2011

edited  by John Willimon