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NPR reports on the Rapture / Jesus is coming May 21st

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Yes, it's coming, sinners.

NPR had a nice segment on Weekend Edition on the folks who say the End is really, seriously near:

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136053462/is-the-end-nigh-well-know-soon-enough

Note that the leader of this bunch previously predicted 1994.... He says he hadn't worked his way through all the relevant scripture. Now he's quite sure it's this month.
Even has the time and location the fireworks will start.

Really a bummer for the kids at the university here, we have Commencement on the 20th, and the poor lads and lassies will have that nice, shiny sheepskin in hand when folks start wafting off to Heaven.....
 
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6 pm in the Pacific Rim? Which side? This is important as I'm supposed to be walking the Relay for Life that day.
 
Why do these Christians never pay attention to the part of the Bible that warns against charlatans claiming they know the hour of the end, when that knowledge is reserved for, and kept secret by, the Lord.
 
Bikewer said:
Note that the leader of this bunch previously predicted 1994.... He says he hadn't worked his way through all the relevant scripture.
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Yeah, because if you are announcing to the entire human race that the world will end, it is not that important to "work through all the relevant scripture" before setting a date.

Beerina said:
Why do these Christians never pay attention to the part of the Bible that warns against charlatans claiming they know the hour of the end, when that knowledge is reserved for, and kept secret by, the Lord.
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You missed the Christian in another JREF thread that suggested that while God did indeed say that no one will know the date, there is no rule that says God couldn't have changed his mind and now allows people to discern the date.
 
I enjoyed the little stinger in the last sentence of the article. Seems to indicate that the writer is not as credulous as those being reported.

One wonders how many would sign a legally binding contract donating all their possessions to the bearer effective May 22, though I imagine that the suggestion would be rebuffed as 'an affront to god.'
 
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Yeah, because if you are announcing to the entire human race that the world will end, it is not that important to "work through all the relevant scripture" before setting a date.
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He worked through it enough to write a book about it. I wonder if they offered refunds on Sept. 7, 1995. "Oops, sorry about that. My bad."


Ladewig said:
You missed the Christian in another JREF thread that suggested that while God did indeed say that no one will know the date, there is no rule that says God couldn't have changed his mind and now allows people to discern the date.
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They should have released an addendum at least. You know, in case God has changed his mind about anything else in the Bible.
 
21st May? That's annoying, I was going to go to a family party on the 22nd, perhaps we'd better reschedule.

I feel terribly sorry for the families of these people.
"Knowing the date of the end of the world changes all your future plans," says 27-year-old Adrienne Martinez.

She thought she'd go to medical school, until she began tuning in to Family Radio. She and her husband, Joel, lived and worked in New York City. But a year ago, they decided they wanted to spend their remaining time on Earth with their infant daughter.

"My mentality was, why are we going to work for more money? It just seemed kind of greedy to me. And unnecessary," she says.

And so, her husband adds, "God just made it possible — he opened doors. He allowed us to quit our jobs, and we just moved, and here we are."

Now they are in Orlando, in a rented house, passing out tracts and reading the Bible. Their daughter is 2 years old, and their second child is due in June. Joel says they're spending the last of their savings. They don't see a need for one more dollar.

"You know, you think about retirement and stuff like that," he says. "What's the point of having some money just sitting there?"

"We budgeted everything so that, on May 21, we won't have anything left," Adrienne adds.
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Those poor kids.
 
There are children at my work who are terrified the end is coming this month. I've tried to reassure them, but my words probably don't hold much weight compared to what they hear at home. :(
 
Just like living in the Middle Ages, where doomsday prophesizers just knew the End was Nigh. I'm surprised we haven't has processions of flagellants beating each other on their backs, rolling large stones along the rodes, and other suct acts of penance.

As Lisa put it, the children are the ones who will probably be the most damaged from this style of lunacy. What the parents and their religious leaders are doing to the kids should be criminal.

Okay, who's planning a May 22 "nyah nyah, we're all still here" congratulatory drink?

Beanbag
 
"Processions of flagellants".... Immediately I saw the Holy Grail scene with the chanting monks whacking themselves in the head....

I wonder if I could clean up....Import some of those cheap souvenier bullwhips from China and sell 'em to the penitents for 50 bucks apiece... "Guaranteed sanctified"...
 
Are you folks seeing advertisements for this? They're everywhere here. I pass three "May 21" billboards during my daily commute.
 
Now they are in Orlando, in a rented house, passing out tracts and reading the Bible. Their daughter is 2 years old, and their second child is due in June. Joel says they're spending the last of their savings. They don't see a need for one more dollar.
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This seems the creepiest part to me. Isn't June after May?

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Lisa Simpson said:
There are children at my work who are terrified the end is coming this month. I've tried to reassure them, but my words probably don't hold much weight compared to what they hear at home. :(
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That's child abuse, seriously telling your kids they are going to die in a couple weeks. How old are these kids?
 
Fortunately this kind of nonsense (the whole Rapture thing, not just the latest date) is almost entirely unknown in the UK.
 
Good age to teach 'em evidence. That just because someone says something, even if they really believe it, doesn't mean it's true. For corroboration, find a clip of the Daily Show where they mention Fox News's latest baseless assertions, then mockingly dig back a week to where Fox contradicted themselves.
 
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