Thinks the end is nigh

As an aging senior and an atheist, I was brought up in a fundamentalist school where we were taught that there would be a series of events that would happen before the final apocalypse.

Not that I have any premonition about this happening, but it seems kind of weird the predictions have a certain amount of authenticity or accuracy.

It would appear that the “Seven Trumpets” that are supposed to herald the end times have it in reverse order – at least according to the Book of Revelations -- which I have corrected here:

• Rise of competing military power

• Rise of major military power

• Sun, moon and stars darkened

• Devastation of rivers and fresh water

• Devastation of oceans and sea life

• Destruction of vegetation

If you look at this list, even if you give some credence to eclipses of the Sun, which we have had 228 times over the last century, you can certainly agree that most of the other predictions are well on their way of becoming reality.

Although some folks were supposed to be rescued from the devastation, it would look like that there wouldn’t be too much left to eat if all the sea life, animal life and vegetation are gone.

That would really tick me off.

Frank Martens, Summerland