The End of the World; and other trivial matters

So apparently we’re living at the end of the world. I must say, I don’t see any themed restaurants. Oh, wait – that was at the end of the UNIVERSE, not just the end of that portion of it which happens to contain human life as we know it.

As a follower of the Judeo-Christian school of thought, this should not be surprising to me. After all, these events were described for us more than two thousand years ago: rapture, tribulation, Armageddon, millennial kingdom, etc, etc.

And now we see floods, world-wide climate changes, falling space debris, rogue planets, colliding galaxies, super-volcano activity in both Indonesia and the US; not to mention the impending culmination of both the Norse and Mayan prophetic calendars. So, yes. It is very likely that the world is about to end.

I have a couple of problems with this.

Number 1: Why is it that people like Hank Campbell; scientist, probable atheist, definite sceptic; can write intelligent, witty, humorous, sensible prose (kudos on the “Thor” reference – by the way!), while proponents of the theological point of view, which, philosophically, I support, come across as ignorant, uneducated, illiterate, scare-mongering, fanatical idiots who live on a different, scarily one-dimensional, planet?

Secondly (and this is my real beef with the state of affairs): How is it possible that the world can end while I’m still single? That just seems monstrously wrong.