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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That's pretty much the same thing Richard Dawkins explains in his article
There is no God. He also points out how so many "believers" seem to hope for the end of the world. What a grim and sad thought.
I'll be posting again on October 22nd when the world fails to end. Again. ;)
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