Saturday, March 28, 2009

Anathema maranatha!

I've been reading some posts on the NAC singles site lately, just to see what the faithful have to say for themselves (the site is not an official NAC-sanctioned site). Unfortunately, there isn't much that isn't the product of indoctrination. Take a look at this current example of clear, rational thinking:

THE LORD IS COMING. Am I ready! Am i still clinging to earthly treasures and things. As a Minister it is sometimes scary to see how many of us do not realise the earnest of the time. Are we ready for the First Ressurection because??? i AM UTTERLY SCARED NOT TO BE FOUND WORTHY.
How sad, to be terrified of "not being found worthy", as if spiritual "worthiness" were something that could be quantified. To spend life living in dread of a fictional event that has been "imminent" for over 2000 years now. The writer continues:

Please Brothers and Sisters let us Pray earnestly for each other and more so for those of our Bretheren that do not understand or who haved turned away.
Not content with feeling miserable all by himself (I assume the writer is male, because the New Apostolic Church doesn't ordain female ministers), the need to spread the dread is so great that he prays to his god that those who have rejected the offer to live an eternity doing only what an all-powerful deity thinks they must do forever and ever will be returned to the fold, so they too can live in fear for the rest of their days until they die, never having realized "the goal".

Thanks, but no thanks. I don't need your prayers, nor do I want them. I'm immune to the self-loathing and fear that has captured your mind.