Buzzfeed says of the above news report, "As funny as all this Rapture talk is…this is where it gets scary." A reader writes:
Your reader wrote, "What they wish upon us is far more than laughter and humiliation: it is a slow painful death, the "wages of sin" that we so richly deserve." This is not true.
These people gave up everything to stop our imminent suffering. They gave all their money to this man so that he could put up billboards and print pamphlets to spread the word of what was coming. They did not wish us harm. The reason they wanted so desperately to convince us they were right is precisely because they did not want us to suffer.
I myself received a "blessing" (or something like that) along with some literature from these people in Chinatown in DC. I grew up in Jerry Falwell's hometown in Virginia, so I have been "saved" many times by strangers. These people were so much more desperate than the people who hand out gospel tracts in their free time. They were rushed – panicked, almost. They could not hand pamphlets out fast enough. They were begging us to listen to them. They did not want us to experience a "slow painful death." They wanted us to choose to join them in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The latest:
Radio evangelist Harold Camping said in a special broadcast Monday night on his radio program Open Forum that his predicted May 21, 2011 Rapture was “an invisible judgment day“ that he has come to understand as a spiritual, rather than physical event. “We had all of our dates correct,” Camping insisted, clarifying that he now understands that Christ’s May 21 arrival was “a spiritual coming” ushering in the last five months before the final judgment and destruction.
In an hour and a half broadcast, Camping walked listeners through his numerological timeline, insisting that his teaching has not changed and that the world will still end on October 21, 2011. “It wont be spiritual on October 21st,” Camping said, adding, “the world is going to be destroyed all together, but it will be very quick.”
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