A False Hope?

What makes generally good people, and I feel most of them believe their itch for the end is a "hopeful" belief, want all of this to disappear?

...So what if people think the end of the world is coming sooner than later? They can believe what they want, right? Let them sell their books and have their movies, let them make money off fear and hopelessness, we don't believe this anyway, right?

The problems arise when the fantasies of real people are cynically manipulated by their leaders and those politicians who see it as beneficial for real political ends....

But how much does this actually hurt Israel and Jewish people around the world? How much does it hurt the U.S. and the West and moderate Arab states in trying to battle Islamic fundamentalisms when Christian fundamentalists are seen as the most staunch backers of the of Israel? It certainly gives more credence to the exclamations of the Bin Laden's of the world that "Crusaders and Zionists" are holding back countries in the Islamic world. I don't believe that, but more and more people do every day in the Islamic world. That's not something the U.S. or Israel should want. It only fuels those fires of fundamentalism, both Christian and Islamic, the more. That's not in anyone's interest other than the purveyors of hate, hopelessness and destruction.

[via Michael Standaert at The Huffington Post]