Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012. "That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale." The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.
Why do I get up in the morning?
Regards,
Tengrain
the world ended 37.5 years ago. it's just in denial...
Posted by: Molotov | January 01, 2010 at 01:29 PM
It's amazing these people know when the end of the world will occur. They have one up on Jesus. He isn't even sure when he's coming back.
Posted by: Monica_A: Winner Like Quinner | January 01, 2010 at 01:32 PM
I like how his calculations are made using our current Gregorian calendar, which wasn't introduced until the 16th century.
Posted by: g | January 01, 2010 at 01:41 PM
No body wants The Rapture more than me, I need the elbow room.
Posted by: Capt. Bat Guano | January 01, 2010 at 02:29 PM
"But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations..."
Shouldn't have bought your calculator at WalMart you dipshit.
Posted by: Capt. Bat Guano | January 01, 2010 at 02:32 PM
I'll be sure to pencil that in on my schedule.
Posted by: Sorghum Crow | January 01, 2010 at 03:30 PM
rapture is for quitters
Posted by: Molotov | January 01, 2010 at 03:31 PM
As we all know, the Bible is the authority on EVERYTHING. At least there's still time to run up our credit cards until they melt.
Posted by: Bruce388 | January 01, 2010 at 03:54 PM
more reason to be lazee.
Posted by: pansypoo | January 01, 2010 at 04:01 PM
i like lazee, and lazee sex too. more lazee sex before jebus comes for me!
Posted by: Molotov | January 01, 2010 at 04:59 PM
If you can't trust people who have been wrong hundreds of times before, who can you trust? Hmmm?
Posted by: Mac from Oregon | January 01, 2010 at 06:33 PM
<""I'd wonder, 'Why did God put this number in, or that number in?' It was not a question of unbelief, it was a question of, 'There must be a reason for it.' "
That's wingnut science for you in a nutshell (pun intended); believe first and then search high and low for justification.
"I believe, therefore it is."
Posted by: kate | January 01, 2010 at 07:23 PM
The Rapture, like banning abortion or making gays go back into the closet, are fund raising no-brainers for the repugs and other cheating, scheming liars, especially when the people they promise these changes to have no brains...
Posted by: tellybelly | January 01, 2010 at 09:36 PM
I can guarantee the world will end the moment I die. .... . I mean no animosity towards anyone but the truth is, if I cease to exist, you also cease to exist.
Posted by: MD | January 01, 2010 at 09:55 PM
deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Posted by: Molotov | January 01, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Numerology + Fundamentalism + Millennialism = Great Pealing Chortles of Laughter
This is like the Three Stooges Meet Oral Roberts....
Posted by: montag | January 02, 2010 at 05:11 AM
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Posted by: Molotov | January 02, 2010 at 08:25 AM
"They have one up on Jesus. He isn't even sure when he's coming back."
I think Jesus had a look at his followers and it isn't pretty . . . Teabaggers, Doctor Killers, Spittle-flected Scripture Screamers, Glen Beck and Mooselini. Gawd would you come back to THAT?
Posted by: HarpoSnarx | January 02, 2010 at 10:55 AM
I'm taking that week off, just to be safe.
Posted by: Oblio's cap | January 05, 2010 at 09:28 AM