I woke this morning to the sun shining and the birds singing.  I was surprised to wake up at all.  After the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that same sex couples could have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples all I heard from the religious right was that it was the end of times.  God was going to inflict his wrath on the evil Americans for doing such an abomination.  Well, maybe the rapture did come and I just don’t know it.  After all, anyone that knows me knows that there is a good chance that I would be left behind.  But I started seeing Facebook posts from my Christian friends so I figured that meant one of two things.  Either the rapture didn’t come or maybe they weren’t as God fearing as they thought.  Obviously it was the first option and there was no rapture and my friends are good God fearing Christians.

So, why no rapture?  Could it be that God is not as upset as they think?  After all the U.S. is the 21^st country to make it legal.  If the first 20 didn’t piss off God why does anyone think that the 21^st would?  Could it be that a lot of people think the world and the afterlife revolve around America?  America, a country residing on a continent that the people who wrote the Bible didn’t even know existed.  Yep, that America.

That being said people still think that homosexuality is the ultimate sin and will bring an end to this world.  Maybe not today but soon.  I’ve even seen people calling for Jesus to come soon and remove them from this hell that we call earth.  Yes, I know, those are the same people praying like crazy any time they are faced with a tough time or life threating issue and thanking God that they or any loved ones were not killed.  I guess they want the end of times but just on their time schedule.

This leads me to the big question.  Why do Christians think that Homosexuality will bring about the end of times while so many other horrific things that have happened on this planet have not brought about the end?

Mao Zedong had a reign of terror from 1949 to 1976 which led to between 49-78 million deaths.

Jozef Stalin’s reign last from 1922 to 1953 and he systematically killed 23 million people.

Adolf Hitler in the pursuit of the master race killed 17 million people between 1934 and 1945.  Nearly 6 million of those were Jewish people, Gods people.  Which made up 67% of the Jewish population.  67% of the population wiped out.

On August 1945 the United States dropped two nuclear bombs.  The first on Hiroshima, Japan killing 140,000 people and three days later dropped another one on Nagasaki, Japan killing 80,000 people.

None of these horrific events brought on God’s wrath.  And these are just events from the 20^th century.  The world has a long history of horror and terror going back as far as any history book can depict.

Then you have Senator Ted Cruz, a Conservative Christian, who called the last 24 hours the worst 24 hours in United States history.  Think about that for a moment.  In the last 24 hours millions of Americans were allowed to keep their health insurance and also two people who love each other of the same sex can get married.  Please tell me how that could possibly be worse then 9/11 or Pearl Harbor? How?

If all of those acts of terror didn’t bring the end but letting two people love each other does?  How does that even make sense?

Then it occurred to me.  It’s not the actual world coming to an end that the Christians are talking about.  It’s their world coming to an end.  A world of privilege and prestige.  A world where all that they believe is the law of the land.  A world where they can look down on anyone that is different from them and put them back in their place.  A world where you must believe the exact same way as they do.  The thought that someone different than them is now, by law, treated equal to them spells the end.  The Supreme Court which for years and years ruled in their favor has now ruled against them and they can’t believe it.  They now dispute the Supreme Courts authority.

Now keep in mind this is by no way directed at all Christians.  In fact it is directed at a very small but very vocal segment.  Yesterday I saw a lot of churches and Christians acknowledge the event for what it was.  Progress and hope that maybe we are going in the right direction and recognizing that giving equal rights to all isn’t a bad thing at all.

So yes, the world has come to an end.  But what a better place it is going to be going forward.

Love wins.

Oh those pesky facts.