hometown in TN., to find a house and a job (for what he thinks is a VERY short time). He recently quit his job of 25 years as a Paster at a local hospital and his wife will quit hers once he secures the home and job. He firmly believes that the Rapture is coming soon, certainly within the next two years, but most likely in the next few months. He has been working on who he thinks is a lapsed Catholic, not knowing I do not believe in God. I don't have the heart to tell him as it would ruin a good neighborly relationship and neither of us would ever convince the other of the rightness of their convictions.
My hope is that he lands on his feet and doesn't suffer for his beliefs. He has provided countless people with hope and comfort in their darkest times. It is because of his true belief that I have not said how I really feel. I find that most so called "religious" people are hypocrites. At a minimum, they do not come close to following the teachings of their faith as evidenced by the Religious Right's attacks on the poor, elderly, disabled, minority, and immigrant populations. Kim Davis is one of these attention seeking hypocrites trying to push her so called beliefs onto the rest of us in an attempt to prove her own devotion. I believe with her that she is acting more out of a twisted self-interest than anything else. Personally, it adds to my growing cynicism and lack of faith in my fellow humans.
While at times DU does as well and not just by the articles and videos I read and watch, but the snark and hate of some members, overall though I see good, caring people hear concerned about their country and their world and the people in it. I admit that I too have been guilty sometimes of what I complain about so I guess I fit in somewhere between the good and the bad, but I am trying. I don't need the promise of Heaven, nor the threat of Hell to do it either.
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