Christian groups gather in D.C. to tell us that the world will end on May 21, 2011
By Alex HeiglMay 6th, 2011, 4:30 pmComments (22)
"Have you heard the awesome news?" asked the lettering on the side of the RV. Washington, D.C. residents, presumably thinking their Thursday mornings were about to get a little bit brighter, perhaps with free ice cream or news that the government finally had a working hoverboard. Sadly, the answer was a little more grim: "The end of the world is almost here!"
A fundamentalist Christian radio network is one of several groups that have pegged the end of days to a date coming right up — as in, about two weeks from now. May 21, they announce, will be the long prophesied Second Coming, and we had better all be ready.
Although the group seems pretty confident, it might be prudent to hedge your bets, given that the gentleman at the head of this particular sect, Harold Camping, made a similar prediction in the early '90s — he was betting back then that the world would end in 1994.
For all of us who were happy to make it to 1995 (GoldenEye being one of many reasons why), Camping would like to say that while inspiration is human, second drafts are divine.
“It’s just like anyone who invents something or comes to a truth or any technician — they don’t immediately make a finished product,” he explains. “I did not come to the finished product until three years ago. It was at that time that God showed some exquisite proof."
Call it The Rapture 2: This Time it's Personal.
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Atheist rapture party: May 21st-22nd: https://atheists.org/events/Rapture_RAMS
Nice!
Bummer!
Really it's Rapture 2: This Time it's.....yaaaawwwwwnnnnnnn.
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It'll be interesting to see what these people have to say when it doesn't happen.
They won't say anything. When they wake up on the morning of the 22nd, there will be a deafening silence from their organizers.
I'd say hopefully the embarrassment will cause them to rethink this, but they're religious. Rational thought is irrelevant.
Religitards.
I don't know whether to be pleased that I won't have to pay June bills for which I don't have the money, or annoyed that all the planning I put into a Memorial Day event will be for nothing.
I want every group and person who truly believes this to take all of their assets and donate them to a charity.
Why?
They won't be needing their assets in the Great Beyond, will they? Further, if the Rapture occurs, nothing will be left behind, so why hoard assets? Why not give to charities? (Hell, even charities they don't believe in (e.g. pro-lifers donating to Planned Parenthood), 'cause wouldn't that be the greatest joke ever?) The money won't be there the day after the Rapture anyway. ... or it shouldn't be. Nothing should be.
And THEN we'll see who really believes.
@David - dude, if ANY of these religitards actually truly believed any of the crap they spout, they wouldn't be waiting for the Rapture to divest themselves of material wealth; they'd be doing it NOW.
Attention all "Christians": you may give all your material wealth to me, and I will burn in eternal hellfire on your behalf.
Actually, May 21 is just Judgment Day. The actual end of the world, according to their website, is October 21 (still this year though).
If anyone needs pet care after the rapture: https://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/
Where can I buy Rapture Insurance?
@christians: cool story bro.
"Dude, when the Rapture comes, can I have your stereo?"
If I had more time I'd go around giving these nutjobs reverse mortgages.
Step 1: "Here's $50k, do whatever you like with it, but on May 22nd I'm having you evicted".
Step 2: Sell the house for >$50k
Step 3: Prophet! [[sic], for all of you humor-free grammar fetishists]
You'd be screwed. You can't kick someone out before the term of the reverse mortgage so when they didn't "depart," they'd have your money and still be in their houses.
Well, I've decided to be civic minded, and am offering to be a designated driver for anyone who thinks they may qualify for the rapture.
Gee whiz, and I thhogut this would be hard to find out.