Jesus returns --- sort of!

Harold Camping of Family Radio, a California-based religious broadcasting network, has announced that Jesus will return on May 21, 2011 to judge the world and start the rapture. Yeah!

Well not according to some other Christians. I guess Harold hasn’t got it right according to some people like www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/harold_camping.htm where they said that Harold “has aired Mormon advertisements”, perish the thought! Or that Harold claims that the Holy Spirit is no longer working in the church. How Harold came to know that is a mystery. Don’t you just love it when one Christian group points fingers at another Christian group? Who’s go it right?

Also floating on the web are advertisements about pet care for pets “left behind” when those good Christians get raptured up to heaven. For as little as $35 per pet you can be assured that Fido or Whiskers get’s taken care of while you enjoy your heavenly paradise with 72 virgins – woops that’s another mythology! If I wasn’t such an honest person I would start up a business like that but knowing that these folks won’t really depart this planet, they may end up starting to demand their money back. But then I could let it sit in the bank making fabulous interest in the mean time.

Anyway according to www.huffingtonpost.com Harold Camping has done this before. He previously predicted that the Rapture would occur in mid-September 1994 and, surprise, it didn’t. You would think that once you blew a prediction you would be more cautious about doing it again. But these types get caught up in their own delusion and no amount of reality will persuade them to change. It’s like the UFOers who still claim that we’ve been visited by aliens. No amount of shooting down their claims will stop them from believing.

And that’s the real issue here. Religious people are taught to believe something despite the evidence and the more you try to rationalize them out of it the more entrenched they become. If you read most apologists, they basically say that Christianity doesn’t make sense but believe it anyway.

I like the quote attributed to the TV program “House” that says something like “if you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.” Think about it.