Nobody gives a damn.
Really. You don't need me to tell you this.
Nobody gives a damn about the Karen rebels in Burma, fighting against a military dictatorship since 1962, which I guess is why said military figures it can get away with using chemical weapons against the Karenni.
Nobody gives a damn that the right to self-defense has been abrogated in Britain, and in fact said right is now routinely and thoroughly regarded as a crime.
And you read that correctly: not Iran, not North Korea, not Burma.
Not Sudan, not Cuba, not Saudi Arabia.
Great Britain.
Nobody gives a damn that self-contradictory witch doctors have a large, willing audience in the United States. Think I'm going too far with that statement? Consider Hal Lindsey, who is once again predicting the imminent doom of the planet. This time, he's suggesting that, really, this time, we're just about done:
If any of this is true, then I suspect that the 111th pope will not live very long. We are just too close to the final events before Christ's return for him to reign for a long period.
Ladies and gentlemen, just to remind you, the recently-elected Pope is 78 years old. I submit that a prediction on the order of "will not live very long" isn't much of a stretch. It sure as hell isn't much of a prediction.
And according to the texts Lindsey himself allegedly venerates, he's not supposed to be looking into such things as prediction and whatnot in the first place: Leviticus 19 and Deuteronomy 18 told him not to, but Hal doesn't give a damn, not when he's got a point to make. Nor do those who read and consider him, nor those who publish him.
But who cares? China persecutes Christians just because they're Christians, and threatens Taiwan because it's Taiwan; Sudan enslaves and massacres people wholesale; Burma/Myanmar gasses its Karen freedom fighters; physical self-defense is illegal in Britain, where a man's home once was said to be his castle; and even in the United States, legislators and jurists can't read any meaning into "Congress shall make no law" abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right to bear arms.
Who gives a damn?