It's May 21st we're all going to die, maybe. According the Family Radio grand poo-bah Harold Camping we will. I won't go into the exact details, the Internet and other forms of media will provide everything you need to know. What you essentially need to know is that by using passages from the Bible an mathematical equation was created to pin point the exact day in which the rapture will happen. Math. It should be noted that Camping tried to scare us with this 'Biblical Math' back in 1994, and failed.
While I do appreciate one's love for math to the point where one can pluck passages, numbers, etc. from a BOOK and say this is when EVENT X will happen, let's be real. Didn't they try and do something similar in the movie Pi? Oh wait, they tried to find the 'true' name of god. I appreciate the dedication to math and god, but c'mon. From reading all the recent hype, there's no place in the Bible that states the date and time of the rapture. So what makes these equations right?
I was living in Eugene, OR when 6/6/06 came around. Mind you, this was small town and it happened to be the season religious loonies preaching the good word at the University of Oregon's Student Union. I remember reading articles which sited religious figures claiming that the devil would ascend to earth and bring his wrath, blah blah. On that day nothing happened. Deicide was to release two exclusive songs on iTunes, but that's as close to the rise of the devil as it got. I read the online papers that night and the next day, nothing. There's no devil, there's no god to stop the devil.
I'm Jewish, by birth (not choice), we don't have an end of days or rapture. We don't even have a hell. We don't live in constant fear of god's wrath. No confession, just a day of repentance and then we get on with our lives. The mere fact that I don't believe in the Christian god or Jesus means nothing will happen to me. I'm a believer of non-absolutes, ie, no one true god. I believe that God, Allah, Odin, Ganesh, the Giant Turtle in the sky all exist, at least in our minds. The sheer fact that there are so many possible, conflicting views of what god is, means that there's not one god, no right or wrong god, if there even is a god at all.
As I write this, this whole '6pm' time frame has already failed in New Zealand, where a big ass Earthquake would hit. That already happened a few months ago. I guess Camping got the math wrong, again.
I strongly suggest for everyone to go to your closest church and remind people that the rapture isn't coming. They fucked up. Bask in this momentous 'I Told You So' moment. It's 10:30am in San Francisco, it's a sunny day outside. Go have a No Rapture Party.
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