Faith is a Cobra

Jesus is supposed to arrive today, I heard. Or maybe it's the rapture. I'm not sure. Both? More than anything, people speaking of the end of the world are amusing.
This world is ridiculous, to say the least. With convenience comes laziness, which is followed closely by boredom and apathy. People take the easy way out, every time. This is a fairly new thing, I think, as both my parents and my grandparents are familiar with the concept of reward after hard work. Or hard work with no obvious reward. So this society has spoiled its inhabitants, it seems, and the only cure is for each individual to take the initiative and start making some mental connections that force themselves to care.
Or maybe it's just as well that some kind of armageddon is headed our way. Sure, it could be of biblical proportions, "Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!" but it's not like the human race isn't stubbornly daring the Earth to end. And because this planet is about as conscious as gravity, it's just going to react without regard for fate or fairness, and without sympathy or restraint.
I really don't care. I mean, I do. I care a lot. The first sentence in this paragraph is a complete lie. What I meant is this: I care tremendously. I try to do as much good as possible, even in hopeless situations. I don't believe morals should be compromised because of circumstance, though occasionally I'm guilty, too. I smoke cigarettes and drive my car. But (and this is a big butt)! I also believe in justice and, y'know, reaping what one sows. We sowed ourselves a pretty ugly outfit out of the only known habitable planet in the entire universe. Sucks, doughnut? So, as happens to every body that's endured terrible conditions, parts will begin to fail. The ozone will go, and the ice caps will melt prematurely (would they ever have, otherwise?), and a pandemic will find its way into the human body. And these are all pretty much guaranteed by every credible expert. There's a museum in Kentucky that may disagree, and some politicians, too, and their followers may adopt their stance, but those people are probably very wrong (unless I'm the one who's been misled).
This whole thing is hilarious and ridiculous but it's also a big downer. Those people holding those signs are looked at in the same light as people with signs proclaiming truths. Anyone who strays from the norm is systematically mocked and degraded, which may be a useful tactic to weed out the weak activists, but is it necessary? I mean, I don't think it's a tactic in the sense that it's being deployed consciously by society as a collective, but more of a tactic in hindsight.
Whatever the point that I'm trying to make, everything I've ever thought boils down to hypocrisy. Once again, I'm guilty as well. And it's sickening. The one that gets me every time is the virtues held but not practiced by people of various faiths. People are all a bunch of lazy assholes who abandon morality when there's too much or too little to do.