The End Is Near! Myabe

I got to get this post done. There's not much time left.

In case you haven't heard, the Judgement Day is coming on Saturday. At least, that's the judgement (pardon the expression) of Harold Camping.

This is the man who has scoured the Scriptures for signs of the Apocalypse and the Day of Judgement. He says he's found absolute proof in the Holy Bible that the end is coming May 21, 2011. Specifically, it's coming at 6 pm.

Never mind that the Scriptures specifically say Jesus told his disciples several times that no one knows when Judgement Day is coming except for God.

Never mind that Christians had been convinced that they had discovered the date of the Judgement Day before.

Never mind that one of those times was 1994, when the prophet who knew the date of the Judgement Day was Harold Camping. His story now? As early as 1992, he started thinking that the scriptural signs were actually pointing to 2011.

There has been media coverage of all the believers who have given up their jobs, given up their homes and other possessions, and drawn down their savings all because the Judgement Day, or Rapture, is coming soon. Once they're in heaven, after all, they'll have no use for all those things.

I wonder how many of those people know that Harold Camping has been here before. I wonder what they'd think if they knew he's been through Judgement Day already. I wonder if they know that Harold Camping is already at work on his alibi for being wrong again this time.

The end is near. At least, I hope the end of people falling for this type of charlatan is near. But I doubt that it is.