May 21, 2011: a new cycle of insanity

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.


And actually in this case, the first time people were fooled by this idiot was already a shame on them. I'm talking about Harold Camping, American Christian radio broadcaster and president of Family Radio. He's most famous recently for having predicted that all true Christians would be raptured (ascend to heaven) as Jesus Christ would come back for them on May 21, 2011, at around 6:00 PM local time.

It did not happen...

He also made a previous "end times prediction" in September 1994 and that obviously didn't happen (he later claimed a mistake in his calculations and that September 1994 was the "end of the church age"), whatever...

The man is rich and he's old (he's 89). The fact that he's rich certainly doesn't help me sympathize with him (it doesn't make me instantly hate him either), but the fact that he's really really old should make me respect him, after all they say respect your elders, don't they? Fuck him! That's not gonna gain my respect for him since I prefer to say "respect whoever deserves respect", unrelated to their age, according to your standards. Isn't it the same Bible that Christians follow that says: "Each tree is recognized by its own fruit." Now, I'm an atheist, so I'm certainly not gonna sympathize with the man for being a Christian. (Please spare me the "true" or "false Christian" bullshit, anyway I don't care, I judge a man by his actions, not his beliefs.)

That 89 years old sick rich fuck has done bad in this world (and there's probably no afterlife to redeem himself). People ask: "what's the harm in believing?" That's the harm! If you're not skeptical of what you believe in, if you hold some things as untouchable and true from the beginning without reserving the right to question them, that's DANGEROUS and yet believers don't seem to get this. You have every right to believe in your fairy tales, but please think before you do anything and don't impose those ideas on others.

But what Camping did wasn't so bad, especially if he truly believed the world would end. He didn't force anybody to follow him. I bet that's what you're thinking. Well, he certainly did encourage them in their wrong beliefs though, the same man that very well knows he made a mistake last time and did the same mistake this time around while saying that he was guaranteeing the end of the world as we know it. When you do these things, you should have to sign a contract and be responsible for your actions. At least something so that these wrong beliefs are not encouraged and die off someday.

I'm certain that most faith healers or people who speak "for the Lord" or people like Camping know that they're bullshitting to some degree. To me that's a scam, a fraud, and some form of punishment is well deserved like we usually do in these cases (especially since all these people are usually very rich or make some good money at the very least).

Where I'm gonna agree with you though is that nobody was forced to follow him and most people, even most Christians, didn't follow him. Those who did, I'm not gonna be nice and in fact this is gonna sound plain cruel, but they deserve their loss. Be it that they sold all their material belongings including their house or because they left their job, but they deserve it. Use your head, believe in whatever you want to believe as long as you're not blind and don't do anything crazy. These people made the wrong choice long ago and it's their fault, even though they can't help it because of the way they were indoctrinated.

The true drama in this scenario isn't what's happening to the most devout of Camping's followers right now as they continue to live in the same world I'm in (here's a tip by the way, next time ask for proof, valid proof. Right now, concentrate on fixing the world we're in and enjoy it for God's sake! Stop saying it's so bad and it's getting worse. In fact, I think it's getting better and if people weren't still insane in 2011, it would be a lot better...)

The true drama is what's happening to the children of these people. These people made a wrong choice, their young children didn't. I'm not the person who cares the most for children in this world, I certainly don't want any because that would annoy me, but those are living human beings in a state of weakness who can't and don't know any better, beginning life with a bullet in the foot. If their parents sold all their belongings, they're now poor and will probably not be able to care properly for their children for a long time if ever. These children will probably not get a good education or in the worst cases be homeschooled by the same people who did blindly follow the first man that told them their savior was gonna come and care for them on May 21, 2011, without any valid proof outside of wrong mathematics in a book that's been PROVEN to have many false statements about the world we live in, many errors and inconsistencies too if you read it all the way in.

We're repeating a cycle of insanity here where 50 years from now we'll still have false end times predictions, fundamentalist religious people who can't appreciate the world they live in and think everyone is wrong for what they do, but also try to impose their beliefs on everyone. Basically, hatred and intolerance caused by basic ignorance. And by not doing anything about it we're helping these people in a way. Please don't let kids be indoctrinated; this is looking more like a crime every day. I want to live in a better more rational world, so teach them critical thinking from a young age. Religion is, like Dr. Darrel Ray, author of The God Virus, would certainly agree, a sexually transmitted disease...

Update: he said God has judged us or something and the only noticeable changes a.k.a. the real complete destruction of the universe would happen on October 31. All I can say is if you're reading this after October 31, 2011, he was obviously wrong. I hope nobody follows this clown anymore, but that's not very realistic since people usually will follow false prophets (and let's face it, they're all false) years after they've been proven wrong. PEOPLE ARE STUPID!!!