Kirk Cameron, the born-again Christian who previously starred in the popular “Growing Pains” series, also appeared in film adaptations of the apocalyptic “Left Behind” books. Broadcast journalist Anderson Cooper brought the actor in for an interview to get his input on the recent slew of animal die-offs.

Anderson teasingly asked Cameron whether the mass bird kills were a sign of the end of the world.

“Well, I first think that they ought to call a veterinarian, not me. You know, I’m not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly,” Cameron said. “But I think it’s really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an end-times theory.”

“People love to find codes and signs of future events and see if they can decipher them before anybody else,” the 40-year-old actor told Cooper. “But birds falling from the sky? That has to do more with pagan mythology; the direction that the birds flew told some of the followers of some of those legends that the gods were either pleased or displeased with them.”

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