Modern Religious Nuttery

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Not that JPII does not deserve the title of 'Great.' Not at all. He deserves this title because of his political-religious offensive against the Soviet Union which snowballed into a winning idea, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the temporary staying of Global Thermonuclear War. This was his great achievement.

He must have seen this historic result in terms of 'life.' He must have thought of himself as having saved millions, perhaps billions, of human lives, and so he must have come to see himself as the embodiment of a fundamental theme: the value of human life. It is a forgivable error. We are all occasionally vulnerable to the psychological category of 'grandiosity.' So it was with JPII. And we all went along! Maybe he was right. Maybe not.

But you can run any good idea into the ground. In a world full of 5 billion idiots there are multitudinous problems.

Modern religious nuttery sees these problems as irrelevant based on the idea that the world is going to end soon: Jesus will come soon, and it will all be over. Don't worry about global warming. Don't worry about the obscene increases of human beings which give rise to the extinction of other valuable species: God declared in Genesis that humans should, "... multiply and fill the Earth.' No religious leader seems to be asking the question, 'Ok God: we have filled The Earth and The Earth is dying. Now what?' That is the main problem with modern religion and modern religious nuttery.