Sad but True

Tonight on the way home, I was listening to John Hancock on WBT radio out of Charlotte. I heard something that I didn't know whether to cry about or laugh at. Mr. Hancock is not an overly religious gentleman, but is the son of a minister. When a nice lady called in and asked him about the recent prediction that tomorrow is going to be the rapture. She asked if the Bible said that no one can know the day, and he replied that it does say that, which is accurate. Once he had answered her question, she said she would stop worrying.

My thought, however, was that this dear poor woman called a radio talk show host to ask about spiritual matters. No offense to Mr. Hancock or the caller, but if I wanted to know something about my car I wouldn't call a gynecologist. If my foot was hurting, I wouldn't call a skiing instructor. If I wanted siding put on my house, I wouldn't call a librarian. Yet this lady calls a radio talk show host whose show is not about religion specifically, nor do I believe that Mr. Hancock would claim to be a Bible expert.

It saddens me that people do these types of things. Why not crack open the Bible and see for yourself? Google it. Bing it. Yahoo search it. Do not take someone's word for something as potentially important as this event, even an "expert." It seems that this is the way with most people. We do not wish to think for ourselves because then we would be responsible for what we know and what we do with it. As long as we can say, "That's what they told me," we can lay blame at the feet of someone else. Sad but true.