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'Rapture' apocalypse prediction sparks atheist reaction
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Alan B'Stard
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His Great Noodly Appendage works in mysterious ways.Withnail said:
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
An Icelandic volcano has just started erupting - Q.E.D. - perhaps..
Withnail
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Unaccustomed as i am to surrounding myself with Christians - i'm fairly sure the couple up the road are unenraptured - i may be wrong and shall check in the morning (they have a small child so it's probably for the best not to check now). Inconclusive proof, obviously - maybe they weren't good enough.Gramaisc said:
Otherwise, i have failed to be moved. I was lead to believe that the earthquake announcing 'The End Of The World' would be something of note - i confess to feeling a little let down.
Roll on 2012 and 'the end of the Mayan calender' - that's bound to be better.
Andreas Rex
Banned for smiling
I'm just reading a rather amusing article from The Washington Post - 'Apocalypse believers wait vigilantly for the end after months of preparing; skeptics carry on'.
A couple of choice cuts:
"I had some skepticism but I was trying to push the skepticism away because I believe in God," said Keith Bauer — who hopped in his minivan in Maryland and drove his family 3,000 miles to California for the Rapture.
He started his day in the bright morning sun outside the gated Oakland headquarters of Family Radio International, whose founder, Harold Camping, has been broadcasting the apocalyptic prediction for years.
"I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this earth," said Bauer, a tractor-trailer driver who began the voyage west last week, figuring that if he "worked last week, I wouldn't have gotten paid anyway, if the Rapture did happen."
and...
In New York’s Times Square, Robert Fitzpatrick, of Staten Island, said he was surprised when the six o'clock hour simply came and went. He had spent his own money to put up advertising about the end of the world.
"I can't tell you what I feel right now," he said, surrounded by tourists. "Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here."
Crazy fools!
A couple of choice cuts:
"I had some skepticism but I was trying to push the skepticism away because I believe in God," said Keith Bauer — who hopped in his minivan in Maryland and drove his family 3,000 miles to California for the Rapture.
He started his day in the bright morning sun outside the gated Oakland headquarters of Family Radio International, whose founder, Harold Camping, has been broadcasting the apocalyptic prediction for years.
"I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this earth," said Bauer, a tractor-trailer driver who began the voyage west last week, figuring that if he "worked last week, I wouldn't have gotten paid anyway, if the Rapture did happen."
and...
In New York’s Times Square, Robert Fitzpatrick, of Staten Island, said he was surprised when the six o'clock hour simply came and went. He had spent his own money to put up advertising about the end of the world.
"I can't tell you what I feel right now," he said, surrounded by tourists. "Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here."
Crazy fools!
Withnail
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