You and me both. I thought of that all the way through the article.
"You are going to believe people who know when the world was going to end are the same people who ate still beating hearts ripped out of their captured conquests, sacrificed thousands of people by throwing them down the stairs of their temples, sacrificed infants to their sun god, had no technology, no written language, were basically savages and you are concerned they know when it all is going to end"
"Okey Dokey....it's a free world..."