The End of the World Was Today!

Again.

Harold Camping of Family Radio had insisted that today was going to be the end of the world 'rapture', since he got it wrong in 1994. Looks like he got it wrong about today too. There have been no major earthquakes, no floating believers, no plagues of locusts and no Rapture (except maybe Blondie's version snarkily linked from various Facebook pages).

This end of the world prediction is yet more terrible public relations for believers, as they were silly enough to make a testable prediction. That prediction failed utterly. Why are those who reject these end of the world predictions so certain that won't happen, and why have they been right since the beginning of time?

Despite the worldwide skepticism of his claims (even from Christians), many 'true-believers' saw fit to spend their life-savings on billboards, ads and other materials to promote the 'end of the world' promoted with slogans such as, 'We Can Know'. Harold Camping himself is rich, sitting on some 70 million dollars...if he really thought the world was ending then why didn't he give away all of his cash before today?

I would like to direct readers to a little site called, 'We Can't Know', run by a group of atheists in Washington. As they say, May 22nd is going to be the beginning of the backpedaling, and it should be hilarity to watch.

The world is going to severely ridicule those who spent so much money, time and effort trying to convince us the world would end today, and that ridicule is well-deserved. Stupid hurts, but sometimes it's just embarrassing.



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Everyone Draw Mohammed Day is today.

'Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day' was started on May 20th, 2010 by Molly Norris, as a response to threats against the creators of a South Park episode depicting Mohammed, which was then censored by Comedy Central. The idea was to get enough people to draw Mohammed where action against these people would be untenable.

Unfortunately, Molly Norris is now in hiding due to credible threats to her safety by Muslim extremists.

It is because of the insane reactions to cartoons by some Muslim extremists that we must continue to draw them and not be intimidated into self-censorship because of religious oppression. It's one thing for Muslims to censor themselves, but yet another to not only try to censor the world but to follow it up with threats of bodily harm or death.

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was almost killed by a Muslim extremist for just such a cartoon, but he had a safe-room and was able to escape in time. Others who expressed their views about Mohammed or Islam weren't so lucky, such as filmmaker Theo Van Gogh who was shot multiple times and had a Jihadi manifesto stabbed through his chest in the streets of Holland for his movie, 'Submission'. Submission is the true meaning of the word, 'Islam', not peace, and that submission is apparently intended for everyone, like it or not. Submission disguised as 'peace' is the subject of my own cartoon complete with a rendition of Mohammed himself.




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