Armageddon

And that is that part of America's job as God's chosen nation is to bring about God's will, which is ultimately the end times as certain evangelicals understand it.

This isn't new.

In the Reagan years, political leadership used Armageddon and the Rapture as an excuse not to take action in environmental crises.

The thinking was, yeah, we could do something about the changing climate and carbon emissions because we absolutely knew about it then-

Right

... or concern ourselves with deforestation, but Christ will come back before the forest will-

[laughs]

...

so why bother? The message coming from the Pentagon, at least as it is being reported out from watchdog groups, is even more sinister.

The war in Iran, and I guess it's a war-

Mm

... is not just a battle over oil or money or even a distraction from bad politics at home.

It serves a spiritual purpose, and that is to usher in the end times.

Now, let's be very clear, this is not a good thing.

Depending on which version of the end times you believe in, and yeah, there are different versions because as Deborah will tell you, it's all nonsense, so of course they can't get their story straight.

Either there's going to be a huge global war led by the Antichrist, all Christians are going to be taken up in the Rapture, and the rest of us heathens, because Deborah, Carl, and I would definitely be counted among those-

[laughs]

... will be left behind in this new hell on Earth, or all Christians will be taken up, and then the Antichrist will start a war with who is left.

I think there are other iterations of this, but those are the main [laughs] ones I can remember.

And we're sending Tomahawk missiles to girls' schools to make sure one of these things happen.