The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...

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In Revelation 6:1-8, it reveals the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I have a concern about one of those four horsemen - Death.
If someone is sick and dying, does that mean that the 4th horseman is out to get them?

What? WTF? It's all rhetorical imo.

If that's what you want to believe then sure. You can believe that there literally is an invisible 4th horseman present whenever a person dies. Heck you could believe that it's the grim reaper that's present or any other personification of death. You could even invent one for yourself that only you believe in. Go nuts.

My advice is to try not to take all this apocalypse stuff to seriously. I did it in high school and it was a total waste of time and thought. But you can believe whatever the hell you want.

Theologians have been debating the meaning of the four horsemen in Revelations for the last 2000 years because the wording in scripture is so cryptic.

So you might as well take it to mean any damn thing that you want it to mean.

The 4th Horseman is a green horse...representing Islam. Islam is a religion that worships death, and that's why death is shown riding the green horse.

The most badass game character.

Only if you believe the crap Irvin Baxter Jr. of Endtime Ministries spews. There are those who think that green represents greed that death is capitalism instead.

When I hear the Four Horsemen I'm thinking of these guys:

I recognise Out Of His Element and Dead, but who are the other two?

(on the right)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett
Daniel Clement "Dan" Dennett III (born March 28, 1942)[1][2] is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.[3]

He is currently the Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is an atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board,[4] as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and director of its Origins Project.[2] He is known as an advocate of the public understanding of science, of public policy based on sound empirical data, of scientific skepticism and of science education and works to reduce the impact of superstition and religious dogma in pop culture.[3] He is also the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing.

I think it's well spooky!! !

Thank you for delivering me from ignorance, Stannis.

If your sick and dying, worrying about an invisible omnipresent sky pony should be the last thing on your list of things to worry about.

If you're dying then you're dying. It doesnt much matter whether you personify death as horseman, or not.

So its not obvious what the point of the question is.

I looked and beheld, a my little green grim reaper pony magically levitated through the air.

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He didn't. Lawrence Krauss isn't in that pic. They are, from left to right: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett.