How can a quazi-legitimate news channel give legitimacy to the Apocalypse?

[LynneSin]

You know, I'm a Christian and maybe I'm a cynic but I'm not buying into this "The Apocalypse is Upon us". Hell half the stuff you hear this rapturists talk about isn't anything related to the bible but nonsensical stories made up by profiteers writing bad fiction.

So why the hell is CNN giving any kind of credence to this being news? I mean, did they run out of pretty blondes being kidnapped or something

:shrug:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200607270001

CNN or CBN? Phillips asks apocalypse authors: "re we living in the last days?"

For the second time in three days, CNN featured a segment on the potential coming of the Apocalypse, as indicated by current conflicts in the Middle East. The July 26 edition of CNN's Live From ... featured a nine-minute segment in which anchor Kyra Phillips discussed the Apocalypse and the Middle East with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg -- who share the view that the Rapture is nigh. At one point in the discussion, Phillips asked Rosenberg whether she needed "to start taking care of unfinished business and telling people that I love them and I'm sorry for all the evil things I've done," to which Rosenberg replied: "Well, that would be a good start." Throughout the segment, the onscreen text read: "Apocalypse Now?"

As Media Matters for America documented, the July 24 edition of CNN's Paula Zahn Now featured a segment examining what "the Book of Revelation tells us about what's happening right now in the Middle East." CNN re-aired this segment the next day. Media Matters also noted that Rosenberg is just one of several conservative media figures who have identified and expounded upon the purported signs of the Apocalypse to be found in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. During his appearance on Live From ..., Rosenberg claimed that he had been invited to the White House, Capitol Hill, and the CIA to discuss the Rapture and the Middle East, and noted -- several times -- that the apocalyptic events described in his novels keep coming true.

[greyl]

1. By applying it directly to your forehead.

By applying it directly to your forehead.
By applying it directly to your forehead.

[KamaAina]

2. Well, if CNN can do it,

why can't a quasi-legitimate news channel do it, too? :-)

[jobycom]

3. Maybe it's a quazi-legitimate Apocolypse?

WHo knows, I haven't watched tv news in so long that when I accidentally stumble across it I think it's a spoof.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. The turn of the last millenium had its end-times predictions,

which then led to the crusades, followed by the arrival of the Black Death and the depopulation of the 'civilized' world, and the Holy Inquisition -- finally, followed by the enlightenment when they figured out that rampant religiosity had brought nothing but centuries of death and destruction, and no second coming.

Things move faster, these days. We've had the end-times predictions, and have begun the crusades. So, when will the plague hit, who will run the inquisition, and when will we see the next enlightenment?

Brace yourselves, it's going to be a bumpy ride.