Remember the “End of the World” fiasco when Harold Camping duped many into believing that the End of the World would be on May 21, 2011?
When it didn’t happen, he said that it was just a “spiritual end of the world” but the real, physical one would occur on October 21, 2011. Those who weren’t saved on May 21, Camping said, “will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011.”
So here we are. One week away from the Second End of the World. I’m sure Harold is crossing his fingers and hoping this one “takes.”
And just as I did in May, I am issuing another wager to Harold Camping: I am willing to bet him $1 million he is wrong.
If he is right, I pay him $1 million on October 22. If he is wrong, he gives me $1 million. I’m sure he has it, since many people emptied their bank accounts and sent the money in to him prior to May 21 so that he could spread the message about the end of the world, and when it didn’t happen, he refused to return the money.
Well, if he says he is a Christ follower, I spose that makes us family. Guess I’ll have to think of him as weird uncle Harold the snake oil salesman, who is more than happy to part the gullible from their money.
Yep, weird uncle Harold. The holidays are no fun without him.
I laughed hard at that. 🙂
Okay…I’m confused. If we were spiritually raptured in May why would God bother rapturing our bodies in October? Is camping saying God can’t make our new bodies without revamping the old ones or does all this just apply to the “real believers” who were hooked up before May 21st? Why don’t I just send all my money to Jeremy and see if he’ll let me opt in on the payoff when Camping loses the bet?
Yes, I will take all your money because you won’t need it after Friday.
I won’t need it either, but I have a big plan to save the entire world before Friday so we all get physically raptured with Harold. So send it in before it’s too late!
Weird Uncle Harry is the reason most non-Christians don’t take the signs of the end times seriously. It also makes us Christians look more foolish than we normally look! I mean, besides Christians, who else would worship a leader who was killed in the most brutal manner? Then we actually believe he came back to life! Isn’t that the original Deus Ex Machina?
I’ve digressed…carry on. 🙂
It’s a great point. People love to scoff at this sort of thing, which makes our job of being taken seriously much more difficult.
Oh dear, that’s tomorrow! Seriously, I don’t know if I should be annoyed, perturbed or merely bored with the centuries old obsession with the apocalypse in cultures across the globe, which has now, sort of, condensed into this spiritual/environmental, pseudo/semi-scientific concern. Okay, the environmental concern is real enough, but not even the most ardent ecologist would tell you that the world is going to end exactly, say, 95 days and 12 hours later. I’m confused regarding what the basis of the claim of such knowledge is. Does someone who is predicting the apocalyptic hour actually believe that he is right or is he just trying to make some sort of a publicity stunt? I mean, what would drive a person to publicly announce the prediction of the apocalyptic hour?
I think Harold might actually think he is right. Maybe. Although he did bring in a lot of money prior to his last stunt, and when asked if he was going to return it, he said that he didn’t know why people sent in the money, but they said it was for his ministry, and since the ministry was still ongoing, he was going to keep it. Nice….