Kirk Cameron has starred in several films based on the Left Behind books--a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins that dramatize what's technically known as Christian eschatology (ESS-ka-TOL-a-gee). That's the collective term for the End Times-- what will presumably happen when Jesus returns to rule over the Earth, either before or after a period of tribulation. (End Time believers disagree on the details, and the scriptures they quote are ambiguous at best.) Apparently, the fact that Cameron is also a Christian evangelist makes him the go-to guy for End Time information.That led CNN's Anderson Cooper to ask Cameron in an interview what he thinks of the notion that there might be a connection between the unexplained sudden deaths of thousands of birds and the Second Coming. "Well, I first think that they ought to call a veterinarian, not me," Cameron replied. "I think it's really kind of silly to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an End Times theory." Cameron acknowledged that people have a "fascination with the religiously mysterious,": and with prophecy, from Nostradamus to the Bible, but he feels the connection to birds falling from the sky "has more to do with pagan mythology" and divination based on the directions in which birds flew at certain moments.
Finally, asked if working in films based on the End Times prophecies affected his life or beliefs in any way, Cameron dismissed the idea. It made him think "I'm probably going to die of some other cause before this happens. A friend of mine just died yesterday," and that made me think that "life is short, and I need to be ready whenever it is that God decides to end my life here on earth." That's a mindset that might be embraced by non-Christians as well.
Cameron is now working on a documentary that will retrace "the escape route of the Pilgrims."
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