Don't get me wrong...I'm all for freedom of religion! But I do have to ask...does freedom of religion equal freedom to be ridiculous?
I've been reading quite a bit about this Rapture scheduled for May 21, 2011. I'm not sure where I will be at the end of the day. Will I be taken to Heaven's pearly gates before my time shrouded in the loving arms of Jesus Christ? Or will I be left here on Earth to see the horrible devastation?
My first instinct upon learning of the upcoming end of the World was to eat all the ice cream I could and charge up my credit cards...but then I thought that wasn't very Godly and I would for sure be left behind to suffer. If I have any hope of making it onto the Jesus train, I better behave a little better than that. In the off chance the end isn't really here, those pounds I would gain from the ice cream would be much harder to take off and the credit card bills, whew, don't even want to think about it!
What's going to happen to the true believers of this Rapture? Many have sold their worldly goods and quit their jobs. What will they put on the applications for their next job where it asks "Reason For Leaving Your Last Job" I can assure you that if I were reading it and it said "Was preparing to go with Jesus" I would put that application in the Not a good fit for our company pile.
I hope I wake up tomorrow to the sun shining, the birds singing and my morning cup brewing. I hope that end is not really here, but if it is, I know I've lived a good life, I've loved a lot and given of myself the best I can. Hope to see you all again soon.
Oh yeah, and if this isn't it, the Mayans have predicted it to be December 21, 2012 so we can discuss this again then.
Love the "Not a good fit for our company" thought.
ReplyDeleteWell, if The Rapture happens, I heard there were options for the raptured to leave e-mails to those Left Behind and to have their pets taken care of. (I guess Jesus has a No Pet policy.)
Me, I'm hoping tomorrow holds more beautiful weather like we had, today!
Every religious faith has its wise people as well as its idiots. The "5/21/2011 Raputure" thing: Example of Christian idiocy. The 2012 thing: Idiocy not so much on the part of any particular religious group's members, but on the part of people with a variety of "New Age"-y leanings.
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ReplyDeleteI always prepare for the worst, hope for the best. This one was easy. I try being a good person and in most cases I am successful. I am trying to raise my kids to be the same. Nothing much else to be done. I was ready, happy, and having a great day being with my loved ones.
ReplyDeleteThat being said...we must prepare! There are so many more disasters coming.
http://www.disastercountdown.com/index.php
**Disclaimer**
End of the world prophecies may or may not be true: disasters may or may not happen: spending time with your loved ones, priceless.
does freedom of religion equal freedom to be ridiculous?
ReplyDeleteWell, they're not exactly the same. Religion is always ridiculous, but not all ridiculousness is religious.
Seriously, is Camping's blather any more inherently absurd than the idea that we need to be saved by a man being executed and rising from the dead because 6,000 years ago a talking snake told a woman made from a rib to eat the fruit of a magic tree? That just seems less nutty because it's more familiar.
Camping himself differs from most fanatics only in that he made a falsifiable prediction. Most of them are too cautious for that.
Never mind the Maya, Camping has now announced that there was a "spiritual" Rapture and that the world will be physically destroyed on October 21. So we get to see this whole tiresome mess play itself out again in five months.
Never mind the Maya, Camping has now announced that there was a "spiritual" Rapture and that the world will be physically destroyed on October 21.
ReplyDeleteYou mean I have another 5 months to eat as much coffee ice cream as I want? I'll make sure and put it on my credit card!
October 21st is a Friday. Isn't that just like some God to destroy the world right before a nice weekend? My God wouldn't do that. He'd at least wait for Monday.
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