[IronJack]

It's always amazing how many people who reject Christianity as too mystical and complicated willingly accept the rantings of a bunch of cannibalistic savages who scratched crude drawings into stone. It's like the Steve Martin routine where he said "If I didn't have my lucky astrology mood watch, I'd have nothing to believe in at all!"

[gcruse]

It's ironic to me that people who cast aspersions on literate, pyramid-building, successful cultures as 'savages' turn around and swallow whole the invisible-man superstitions of desert dwellers from thousands of years ago.

[FITZ]

the rantings of a bunch of cannibalistic savages who scratched crude drawings into stone

True ---they had a good calendar but they never got around to inventing the wheel and had to drag or push everything.

[Precisian]

You got it exactly right, Jack.

Who says the Mayans have any insight into anything, especially the future! Did they see their own doom coming? Ha!

The New Agers have been hawking December 22, 2013 A.D. for over a century.

Heathen predictions are heathen. Doomed and damned.