‘Rapture Parties’ Planned to Celebrate Doomsday Saturday May 21

At the end of the day, one really should feel sorry for these fundamentalist Christians. Think about it, most of them aren’t “blessed” with a high IQ to begin with, add to that the indoctrination they received as children by parents and other people of authority, plus the fact that most of them live in the Bible-belt and are surrounded by like-minded individuals. They almost had no choice but to believe what they believe. By the way, I’ve met and spent time with some of these individuals and at least from my perspective they are great human beings and sincere in their beliefs. 

Having said that, the “born-agains” I truly despise are the hypocrites. These are people who live in metropolitan areas throughout the States and are simply just crummy people; former drug dealers or hustlers, wife-beaters, selfish bitches and the like who one day feel they need to rid themselves of the guilt (while concurrently seeking “salvation”) and so they become born-again Christians; hoping that doing so will wipe the slate clean. I know several of these people personally and can honestly say that as human beings they simply aren’t worth a damn. They aren’t good parents, they aren’t good siblings, they aren’t good friends; what they are is good for nothing. TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press

Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience.com Thu May 19, 3:06 am ET

With the end of the world looming this Saturday (May 21), non-believers are planning “Rapture parties” to poke a little fun at the Doomsday prediction and also raise awareness for other causes.

Harold Camping, 89-year-old leader of the ministry Family Radio Worldwide, has predicted that a five-month destruction of humanity will commence Saturday with a Rapture, in which believers will ascend to heaven. “Whereas this five-month period will be an enormous horror story for those who have not been raptured, it will be a time of great joy and wonder for those who are raptured,” according to the Family Radio website.

Camping uses a mathematical formula linked to prophecies in the Bible. He once predicted Sept. 6, 1994 as Judgment Day, but that math didn’t quite work out. This time around, Camping’s organization took out an ad in Reader’s Digest, stating: “The Bible guarantees the end of the world will begin with Judgment Day May 21, 2011.”

A Web group called TalkAndAct.com is sponsoring a Rapture party because “skeptics, activists, comedians and others don’t believe his apocalyptic warning for one second,” organizers said in a statement Wednesday. The live streaming “Judgment Day Party” will start at 00:00:01 on May 21 and run until midnight, other events permitting, of course.

In Tacoma, Wash., producers of a local talk show “Ask the Atheist” will sponsor a Rapture party themed “Countdown to Backpedaling: The End is Nah!”

A group called American Atheists has a short list of Rapture parties occurring in a handful of other cities.

Might the world really begin to end this weekend? Even many Christians aren’t buying it.

“There are a long line of brilliant people who, through intricate calculations, have made predictions about the end of the world,” Pastor Joseph Fuiten with Cedar Park Assembly of God Church in Bothell, Wash., told the Seattle Times. “Unfortunately they have overlooked the obvious words of Jesus: ‘You do not know the day or the hour’ of such events.”

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