That “prophet” guy, Harold Camping, expressed dismay and disappointment today over the failure of the world to end on Saturday. As readers of this blog know, it’s all Lady Gaga’s fault that the Rapture didn’t happen; but I’ll bet Mr. Camping doesn’t know that, so he’s blaming himself. It’s unfortunate, since a fundamentalist Christian without someone else to blame for everything is truly a lost soul indeed.
The best part about this whole non-apocalypse in my opinion is clearly one aspect of Mr. Camping’s group’s reaction to this. I don’t usually do this very often, but I’m going to directly quote a section of text from the news story about this, because I don’t think I can make this sound any more ironic and disturbing than it did in the article. Here’s the direct quote (I’ll attach a link below to the full story as well.):
Camping's PR aide, Tom Evans, told the L.A. Times that the group is "disappointed" that 200 million true believers weren't lifted up to heaven on Saturday while everyone else suffered and eventually died as a series of earthquakes and famine destroyed the Earth. "You can imagine we're pretty disappointed, but the word of God is still true," Evans said.
Did you catch that? The whole group is “disappointed” that everyone (except for them and a few others who think like them) wasn’t horribly tortured and exterminated in a series of cataclysmic natural disasters and starvation! Hey, thanks, guys! Most of us were probably simply mildly amused that you guys got embarrassed by your own arrogance and gullibility*, but that’s because we’re not good Christians like you. Yes, true Christians always hope and pray for the unspeakably horrible torment and genocide of the (supposedly) unfaithful, like Jesus taught us to do. (Jerks!)
* Even the Bible says that no one will know the day or the hour, so isn’t it the height of arrogance for bible-literalists to think they can outsmart their own “perfect” religious text? If they believe the Bible so much, why did they try to raise themselves above the level of knowledge it limits them to? And another thing: how can they be so sure that they would be among those saved by God? The funniest thing about this whole thing is this: the Rapture may actually have happened on Saturday, but that none of them were chosen, and perhaps this guy’s arrogance was what got him left out, while his group’s crass desire for the destruction of others led to their ultimate un-Rapturability. Hey, you never know!
Here is the, shall we say, “interesting” article:
