“I switched back to Windows, this time”
When the California Christian group known as Family Radio predicted the beginning of the end of the world as we know it back in the spring (not for the first time), Harold Camping and his followers splashed dire warnings on billboards around the globe.
But then nothing happened on May 21. There was no rapture and true believers weren’t swept to heaven while everyone else was left waiting to be consumed in the total destruction of Earth by Oct. 21.
Despite that setback, the California-based group is still looking on Friday as a day of reckoning, even if its predictions have been toned down.
There aren’t any billboards this time, and the 90-year-old Camping has shifted from definitive language to adding the word “probably” to his vocabulary.
So, if history repeats itself, the world will be just fine on Saturday. In fact, one observer expects Family Radio, which describes itself as a “non-profit, non-commercial Christian radio network,” will keep sending out its signals, too.
Like most nutball evangelicals, Harold will continue to roll in the cabbage.
Thanks, Cinaedh
Doesn’t this guy look like the Jeff Dunham’s “Walter” dummy? The resemblance is stunning.
Classic! I thought I recognized this guy from somewhere!
Does anyone else smell sulfur?
On the other hand, it only takes one of these crazies to be right only one time, and they will be called genius in the afterlife.
I’m trying to figure out what the upside would be.
Maybe the Rapture DID happen, there were just no “True Believers” left.
Where does that leave poor old Harold Camping now?
By “end of the world”, I’m sure Camping means His World, for getting money for nothing. After Saturday, it’s not very likely he be getting any more support of any kind. And even the most gullible of his flock, will soon see through this guy’s con. Maybe he was referring to Qaddafi’s end.
I just wish the media wouldn’t lump his shenanigans in with the main stream Christian faith. Buy that logic, all Catholic priests are child molesters. And all atheists are shameless hedonists. But you can’t judge them all by the example of Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s life. And so Camp, and some other cultist kooks, aren’t the norm either.
But anyway, how many times have scientists predicted some end of the world, like from a huge meteor collision? And it didn’t happen. But it doesn’t deter them from predicting future doom and gloom, if we don’t fund all their speculative preventive measures NOW! Same con, just a different bunch of soothsayer con artists, doing it. And their proof is always, their own research, which the rest of us aren’t “learned” enough to understand it. So we can’t refute it. Sound familiar?
Well its saturday and the crackpots are still around. Better luck next time.
I really love the Christians and their never dying HATE for human kind!