[BREAKING NEWS] World To End....THIS SATURDAY!

Yes of course. but there's quite a difference in

"a judgement someday when God gets around to it in his infinite wisdom, the timing of which we have no information about"

and

"a judgement day that God scheduled from the beginning of time which can be seen coming by watching for specific signs of the times which will let you know that we are in the last days, followed by specific events which last a set amount of time which we've already been told about and with correct interpretation of biblical prophecy we can accurately describe."

more importantly, you are speaking to the CURRENT and AMERICAN viewpoint which is markedly different to the mass of history over the last 2,000 years.

If you are, then they should be acknowledged as such, rather than something to be taken seriously. A bunch of assholes agreeing on something does not make it one bit more factual.

I have.
I also get drug along to the Christian Bookstore atleast every few months and must entertain myself while waiting for my cousins to finish shopping, bible engraving, etc.

I'm sorry, it's not a majority view.

Course not...

Bullshit projection.

You sure did.

The difference only matters to someone so close to the bullshit that they've lost sight of the fact that the ridiculous thing about Camping's prediction was that there would be a judgment at all, not that there would be a judgment "tomorrow".

yes... when I say majority, I was referring to actual living people.

I'm not aware of a since-the-beginning-of-time-census of people who believe in a literal translation of Revelations. But if you have one I'll take a look. I'm willing to bet the people who wrote it took it literally. Well... maybe not the people who wrote it, but atleast the people who first read it.

Only Americans go to heaven.

Of course the meaning of the words used when Revelations (as well as all the other books of the Bible) have shifted dramatically since they were originally written down, and the translations/interpretations of them have often gotten quite screwy over the years, and even those which have been corrected haven't necessarily made it into public consciousness. For example, Revelations makes a great deal out of the "Beast with Seven Heads." Many people have interpreted this to mean a literal monster. However, at the time the book of Revelations was written, the nickname for Rome was "the city of seven hills." It doesn't take a genius to figure out that John was most likely talking about the seat of the Roman Empire when he mentions the Beast with Seven Heads.

Nutters take that to mean John was railing against the Catholic Church (which didn't exist at that point). One wonders if they'd still believe that if the Roman Empire was still around.

No doubt there are other examples of similar confusions which have been lost to us over the eons because we either don't have good enough copies of the original documents, or we lack the ability to understand them due to our ignorance of the context in which they were written.

Anyone noticed that Camping updated his prediction? Apparently he "miscalculated" by exactly six months... *sigh*

But...but...It's true!

I give you permission to give up on these hypocritical fucking people.

*Unclenches* oohhhhh, that's a load off.
Thanks.