Harold Camping's Days Are Numbered: A Quick and Dirty Guide to The Rapture
Hits, headlines, and television face time As of early this morning, a Google search for "Harold Camping" yielded about 1,800,000 results. Bing had him holding strong at over 29,000,000. Amongst the headlines are "Harold Camping Crazies Should Apologize to Family When the World Doesn't End Saturday," "End Of The World May 21st, Harold Camping, Dominate Search," "Another Judgment Day, Another 122 Million Dollars?" After 6 P.M. tomorrow he will go down in history as the P.T. Barnum of End Times Prophesy. Unlike Barnum, however, Camping's organization has amassed anywhere from $75 to 125 million in assets, depending on who is doing the counting. And until 6 P.M. Saturday, May 21st, Camping is swallowing up all the oxygen in Armageddion-ville. It's anybody's guess as to what Camping will say after his predicted End Times time comes and goes and we're all still here. It's anybody's guess what his followers will say after Camping's second go-round at Rapture predicting falls through. Barbara R. Rossing, author of The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation, told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell last night that she thought they'll be very little apologizing, and most of Camping's followers will be more disappointed than disgusted. There is no guessing game about Camping from other Armageddonists: they, almost universally, believe he has sullied the whole End Times industry. An End of Times Four Pack while waiting for the End Times Tim LaHaye: The King of the Apocalyp$e Returns, Enjoying the Rapture all the Way to the Bank -- http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-berkowitz/36156/tim-lahaye-t he-king-of-the-apocalyp-e-returns-enjoying-the-rapture-all-the-wa y-to-the-bank In light of tumultuous times Tyndall House Publishers has repackaged Tim LaHaye's 'Left Behind' series of best-selling apocalyptic novels. And LaHaye himself is pressing forward with plans for 'The Resurrection' a movie depicting 'ten post-resurrection appearances of Christ.' ++++++++++++++++++++ Disarray in the Religious Right's Armageddon-ville -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12276 Best selling author, lecturer, and prominent Christian Zionist, Joel Rosenberg, suggests that by setting the date for Judgment Day, Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping is being "unbiblical, wrong and misleading," and "invit[ing] ridicule, scorn and discredit upon followers of Jesus Christ who study the Bible seriously and teach the Word of God -- including prophecy -- carefully and soberly."
+++++++++++++++++++++ Will Christian Zionists and radical right wing Jewish groups head to Israel to disrupt the dismantling of Gaza settlements?
+++++++++++++++++++++ The rapture is a racket," writes Barbara R. Rossing in the first sentence of her recently published book The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Westview Press, 2004). Rossing, a New Testament scholar and an associate professor at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, maintains that the Rapture is a fraud of monumental proportions, as well as a disturbing way to instill fear in people.
"Whether prescribing a violent script for Israel or survivalism in the United States, this theology distorts God's vision for the world," Rossing writes. "In place of healing, the Rapture proclaims escape. In place of Jesus's blessing of peacemaking, the Rapture voyeuristically glorifies violence and war.... This theology is not biblical. We are not Raptured off the earth, nor is God. "
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