Good night to all? Or just a few?

Answer 1

Good night to you too.

Answer 2

Sleep tight

Answer 3

good night to all and let the others worry about the sematics...

Answer 4

its 10:55pm here and i've still got 7 hours to go before i go home. i'm at work.

Answer 5

sleep well good dreams-old hippie here

Answer 6

u night..malaysia still in a day..hehe..nite..daa

Answer 7

Not me, I'll be up for awhile yet.

Answer 8

whatever

Answer 9

Left behind

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Probably the worst part of my attempting to understand Christianity came with those infernal books called the left behind series. These books are disgusting, repulsive, fear based Christian propaganda. Their sole purpose is to convert as many people as possible by scaring the **** out of them.

I wrote a review for the book on Amazon.com, and here, for your reading pleasure, is a sample of what I wrote (I should note however, that at the time I wrote this, I had a misguided image of Jesus, which I will talk about later):

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"It's downright frightening to see how popular the "Left behind" book series is. It's frightening because these books preach fear, separation, threats, Christan exclusiveness, etc. The final (thank God) book in the series is the atrocity called "Glorious appearing." After reading the book, it became clear that the authors left out an important subtitle: "Hitler returns".

I have absolutely no interest in this series, yet I was curious to see how the authors portrayed the return of Jesus. Afterward I found myself thinking, "How can anyone want the Jesus in this book to come back?" It should be said that the Jesus in this book is an unholy monster, who has no qualms about butchering millions, makes it so that one group of people survive, and wants to take over the world. Does that sound like a certain German dictator to you?

The portrayal of Jesus Christ, one of the most peace loving beings in history, one of the most forgiving and accepting people who ever lived, is blasphemous. I'm sure that Christians are aware that their bible says "The devil can appear as an angel of light". Well guess what folks! The devil returns in this book as Jesus!

The first half of the book is strictly Christian propaganda. It's almost laughable how often characters say things along the line of, "What's going to happen?" "Well, according to Mark 12: 13, Jesus will..." or "I'm frightened!" "You shouldn't be, because Luke 25: 10 says that...". And don't forget that lots of characters continuously talk about how forgiving and loving Jesus is. After ten minutes I was laughing at how pathetically obvious the Christian propaganda was. This is obviously a series designed to get people to join Christianity by scaring the crap out of them.

The problems start showing up when the main characters (all ten of them) start going on about how Jesus is kind, loving, caring, how he's here to save the world, save sinners, etc. But when Jesus actually shows up, he goes completely against everything that is said about him.

How so? Well, he loves bothering millions of non-believers by making them explode, ripping out eyes, organs, etc. At one point the book describes how the blood of millions of dead people congeals together to form a swamp (I really wish I was making that up!). Does that sound like the loving, caring Jesus that the majority of the Christians know and love?

And what is absolutely awful and unforgivable is that "Jesus" uses bible quotes as an excuse for his unforgivable actions of horror and terror. One part of the book basically goes like this:

(Jesus goes across a battlefield)

Jesus: And he who walks in love knows God. He who is love has been born of God

(As he talks, millions of people scream and die, blowing up from the inside and dying horrific deaths that only a sadist would do)

Jesus: He who knows love, knows my father. If you know love, you know me

(Millions more die. Blood gushes everywhere.)

Wow. Prince of peace indeed.

It gets really awful when "Jesus" starts judging people. When he sentences people to an eternity in the lake of fire, even when they were pleading for mercy, I was ready to jump in there and shout, "Hey big J! Why aren't you following your own teachings on love and forgiveness?!" I would never want to condemn anyone to the fires of hell for all eternity, even the main bad guy of the series. And yet Jesus, one of the masters of peace and forgiveness, is chucking these pleading men into the fires of hell. If I want to save and forgive them, and Jesus doesn't, then I think something is seriously wrong with this book.

And the final judgment, where "Jesus" symbolically separates the sheep from the goats, is downright offensive. "Jesus" says that God does not judge, and has placed that duty with the son. Well folks, I hope you're ready to be judged by an egotistical fundamentalist murder who demands that you worship him, and won't hesitate to condemn you to hell for all eternity even though he loves you completely (doesn't that make so much sense? *smile*).

Non-Christians will be thrilled to find out that they are f***ed, as "Jesus" sends every non-Christian screaming into the fires of hell, even when, you guessed it, they are pleading for forgiveness and mercy. People are judged on their faith, not what they have done. Absolutely unacceptable.

I can go on and on. Jesus in this book is not Jesus. This is not the peace loving, all forgiving being in the bible. None of the main characters are interesting. The rebels are a bunch of Christ worshiping, brain dead morons who perfectly fit the stereotype of die-hard fundamentalists. "Jesus" forgets almost all of his teachings when he's busy butchering and damning millions. He forgets about mercy, he forgets about acceptance and forgiveness.

Even Archangel Michael and Gabriel show up, and guess what? They are a bunch of unbelievably annoying bullies! They are both apparently Christians, since they constantly shout, "Bow down to Jesus!" and "Acknowledge Jesus as lord!" In fact, most of what they say has "!" at the end of it.

I love doing Jesus' tree test on this book ("By your fruits you shall know them"), because it fails miserably, getting a grade of "F -". It's fruits are exclusiveness, fear, uncertainty, ego boosting statements, rejection, damnation, etc. And bearing in mind that the fruits of the spirit are joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, it becomes very obvious very quickly that this book is none of those things. This book fails Jesus' tree test completely.

The biggest, most unforgivable error that the book gives is teaching that God and Jesus' love, forgiveness, and acceptance have an expiration date. If you don't accept the "Jesus" from this book as your ego-filled maniac "savior" and become a Christian before the second coming, then you can pretty much kiss your *** goodbye.

According to this book, Jesus and God love you with all their hearts, but have no problem casting you into hell if you don't give in to "Jesus"'s ego filled demands that you accept him as your lord and savior.

The "Jesus" in this book looks like Jesus, talks like Jesus, and walks like Jesus, yet it's actions are nothing like Jesus.

I could go on and on, but I have this to say. Don't read this book. Stay far, far, far away from this piece of fear based trash. It's not worth your time, it incorrectly portrays Jesus as a schizophrenic monster, it incorrectly portrays God as the big cop in the sky who waits to bust you at any moment, it says that Jesus' and God's love and forgiveness have an expiration date.

I am not a Christian, but I would think that all Christians would be crying "Blasphemy" at this fear based book.

Instead of reading this, go read something more uplifting, such as the US tax code."

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If you're curious, to date, the review has gotten 26 out of 56 helpful votes. It's good to see that there are 26 sane people in the world today.

The left behind series really got to me, hitting me hard in the gut with it's warnings of "turn or burn". It's amazing what comes from what is supposed to be a love based religion nowadays.

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