Dateline: End Times May 16, 2011|By Manya Brachear
Every religion reporter has considered it –either seriously or in jest – at one point in their careers. No matter how difficult it is to get on Page 1, we on the God beat know we have a shot on Judgment Day.
That front page headline could come as soon as next week, according to a California Christian radio host who has predicted Jesus will return on May 21. Not only has Harold Camping, president of the Family Radio Network, preached his prediction on radio waves. A caravan of RVs hit the road to spread the word as well.
But don’t stop the presses just yet. Mainstream Christian scholars have denounced the prediction as contrary to Scripture. They say Jesus himself said no man will know the day or the hour.
In fact, there have been a few false alarms leading up to the latest forecast:
• William Miller predicted Christ would return between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture, to October 22, 1844. Many people gave away all their worldly possessions, which resulted in a Great Disappointment.
• In 1992, a Korean group called "Mission for the Coming Days" predicted October 28, 1992 as the date for the Rapture.
• On an episode of The Simpsons titled “Thank God, It’s Doomsday,” Homer Simpson incorrectly predicts the Rapture and ends up being the only person taken up.
False alarms aside, some people sincerely believe Harold Camping’s prophecy. So just in case, here’s a glossary of apocalyptic parlance to avoid confusion when or if the events do transpire.
End Times: In Christianity, a time of tribulation that precedes the Second Coming.
Second Coming: The arrival of Christ to judge the living and the dead.
Rapture: The action in which Christians will become spiritual beings and will be ‘caught up’ to meet Christ in the air at his Second Coming.
Tribulation: A brief window of time (six months according to Camping) when anyone who chose not to follow God and got left behind in the Rapture will face, disasters, famine, war, pain and suffering.
Final Judgment: The final and eternal judgment by God that takes place after the Second Coming and Tribulation.
Armageddon: The final battle between the Christ and the Anti-Christ in the New Testament believed to happen during the End Times.
Judgment Day: Always requires some clarification. Some use this term to refer to the Second Coming. Some use it to describe the Final Judgment.
Doomsday: Again, always requires some clarification. The term has been used to describe all of the above.
Yea I saw that a couple of weeks ago on billboards in Wisconsin. Problem is Harold Camping predicted the end once before and was wrong. So you can't really put too much, er, no stock into what he says.
Yeah this story is great. I can't wait to see the backpedaling and prophecy changing in four days.
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I was driving on Route 95 this weekend up in Connecticut or Rhode Island. Someone actually paid for billboard space advertising that the world would end on May 21, 2011. I'm not sure that person's priorities are in order.
thegreekdog wrote:I was driving on Route 95 this weekend up in Connecticut or Rhode Island. Someone actually paid for billboard space advertising that the world would end on May 21, 2011. I'm not sure that person's priorities are in order.
In my small town there are at least two that I saw. The one that said "the bible guarantees it" or some such nonsense. Anyway, I'm resisting a strong urge to get some spray paint and vandalizing the shit out of that filth. I have to drive by one of them everyday to school.
thegreekdog wrote:I was driving on Route 95 this weekend up in Connecticut or Rhode Island. Someone actually paid for billboard space advertising that the world would end on May 21, 2011. I'm not sure that person's priorities are in order.
In my small town there are at least two that I saw. The one that said "the bible guarantees it" or some such nonsense. Anyway, I'm resisting a strong urge to get some spray paint and vandalizing the shit out of that filth. I have to drive by one of them everyday to school.
-TG
If you're going to spend the resources to vandalize, be witty and make it funny.
thegreekdog wrote:I was driving on Route 95 this weekend up in Connecticut or Rhode Island. Someone actually paid for billboard space advertising that the world would end on May 21, 2011. I'm not sure that person's priorities are in order.
There are several groups who have been traveling around the country for some time spreading this "message". They gave up their jobs, their homes, even families. I suppose they will wind up on welfare on the 22nd.
thegreekdog wrote:I was driving on Route 95 this weekend up in Connecticut or Rhode Island. Someone actually paid for billboard space advertising that the world would end on May 21, 2011. I'm not sure that person's priorities are in order.
In my small town there are at least two that I saw. The one that said "the bible guarantees it" or some such nonsense. Anyway, I'm resisting a strong urge to get some spray paint and vandalizing the shit out of that filth. I have to drive by one of them everyday to school.
-TG
You should do something from Futurama, like this gem:
High Priest: Great Wall of Prophecy, reveal to us God's will that we may blindly obey. Priests:[chanting] Free us from thought and responsibility. High Priest: We shall read things off you. Priests:[chanting] Then do them. High Priest: Your words guide us. Priests:[chanting] We're dumb.
The wanker was off by 5 days. The world (as we know it) ended around 16 hours ago, and then started right back up again. Simply a matter of the time/space continuum needing an occasional tune up. The Judgement Day thing was all hype.
b.k. barunt wrote:The wanker was off by 5 days. The world (as we know it) ended around 16 hours ago, and then started right back up again. Simply a matter of the time/space continuum needing an occasional tune up. The Judgement Day thing was all hype.
nagerous wrote:I blame Gaga for bringing the rapture, that Judas song/video is laced with blasphemy.
Rapture? I thought the idiot said Judgement Day. You do know the two do not occur at the same time don't you? Whoever made the May 21 prediction kinda skipped over a lot of end time stuff that's supposed to happen before Judgement Day, such as the "Rapture". I think his group gave him some leeway for poetic license - you know, like the Wogs did for Mohammed when he mixed up his Bible references in the Koran.
Wog or Pog is a slang word with a number of meanings, most if not all considered derogatory and extremely offensive. Its modern usage is overtly racist and is not used in polite conversation.
Wog or Pog is a slang word with a number of meanings, most if not all considered derogatory and extremely offensive. Its modern usage is overtly racist and is not used in polite conversation.
