Movies about end times weren’t far off the mark

Dear Editor:

As a Bible-believing Christian, I must confess to enjoying watching end-times movies.

The plot is always along the same lines: The church gets raptured and a small group of new believers is left behind to face a world gone mad.

One of the things I enjoyed was the silliness of the nonbelievers. They all became irrational, called those who wouldn’t take the mark of the beast “haters” and betrayed their own neighbors. I would laugh at the bad actors and the poor scripts.

Then 2020 came, and I suddenly find myself trapped in one of the movies I had mocked. The irrational fear, the blind following of the stupidest of government regulations, the extreme in-your-face self-appointed mask police. It’s all here, now!

Please don’t get me wrong.

The coronavirus should be taken seriously, but that doesn’t mean that every idiotic suggestion must be taken as necessary to stop the spread. There was no reason to shut down the entire economy, no rationale for some businesses being nonessential. If the governor’s paycheck was stopped and he was kept to his tiny apartment, I wonder if he would have been so bold.

But you can’t criticize. You’ll kill people if you question them! Meanwhile, people die alone in hospitals and nursing homes while government officials take their bows.

Satan has turned up the temperature and found that most of the frogs won’t jump out of the pot. So I apologize to the makers of all those ridiculous end-times movies. You had it about right. Jeffrey Mahoney

Hyde Park