Pablo,
I read Bawer's book, too. Like I said, growing up under my Dad's teaching it has been a long, hard road coming out of the closet and breaking away from gloom and doom teaching. My father is a wonderful man, but so Calvinistic in his theology and that is what I grew up under. He pays so little attention to grace it is not funny, yet one of the Bible verses he taught, drilled into my head, was Ephesians 2:8&9, "For by GRACE you have been saved, through faith not of works, lest any man should boast." King James no less.
I don't know what I believe, but my sister is sitting there in dark, dreary Anchorage waiting for an asteroid to come destroy the earth or China to reveal the Antichrist and afraid that her children are going to have to endure the Tribulation, and I just want to enjoy whatever time I have left. You know I really could give a rat's ass how this is all going to play out. I know where I am going when I die and I really don't care how I get there. I don't care who the Antichrist is. I don't care if it is a metaphor and people who pay attention to this really need to get a life....
