END OF THE WORLD WEEK! – Judgement Day
12/20/12 • -1 min
Reverend J.M. Gates was a fiery southern preacher, and a popular one. Of all preaching recordings made in the 1920s, and there were hundreds, approximately a quarter were made by Gates. The sermons were rife with promises of an angry God’s retribution upon mankind. We’re talking titles like Death’s Black Train is Coming and, for the kiddies, Will the Coffin Be Your Santa Claus? How popular was he? His 1945 funeral was the largest in Atlanta’s history at the time...and was only surpassed by Martin Luther King’s.
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Reverend J.M. Gates was a fiery southern preacher, and a popular one. Of all preaching recordings made in the 1920s, and there were hundreds, approximately a quarter were made by Gates. The sermons were rife with promises of an angry God’s retribution upon mankind. We’re talking titles like Death’s Black Train is Coming and, for the kiddies, Will the Coffin Be Your Santa Claus? How popular was he? His 1945 funeral was the largest in Atlanta’s history at the time...and was only surpassed by Martin Luther King’s.
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END OF THE WORLD WEEK! – I Don’t Want to Set the World On Fire
Most scientists agree that our little planet will end in fire... not on December 21st, but billions of years into the future. The sun will eventually expand and this habitable distance from it’s heat we now enjoy now will disappear.
Of course, this is omitting mankind’s capacity for nuclear war, and our seemingly-inherent penchant for self-destruction. As astronomer/philosopher Carl Sagan said: “We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. ”
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