Nashville billboards claim Jesus will return May 21, 2011

[spanone]

There are 24 shopping days left till Christmas.

And 171 days left until Jesus' second coming.

That's the message on 40 billboards around
Nashville, proclaiming May 21, 2011, as the date of
the Rapture. Billboards are up in eight other U.S.
cities, too.

Fans of Family Radio Inc., a nationwide Christian
network, paid for the billboards. Family Radio's
founder, Harold Camping, predicted the May date
for the Rapture.

Their message is simple — "He Is Coming Again" —
and their aim is to get unbelievers to turn around
quickly. But critics say the billboards are a waste of
time, one more failed attempt to predict the end of
the world.

The Rapture is going to be a great day for God's
people but awful for everyone else, said Allison
Warden, 29, who orchestrated Nashville's billboard
campaign. She's a volunteer with WeCanKnow.com,
a website set up by followers of Family Radio. She
and other fans designed the billboards, along with
T-shirts, bumper stickers and postcards to get
Camping's predictions out.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20101201/NEWS06/12010350/Nashville+billboards+claim+Jesus+will+return+May+21++2011

[raccoon]

1. Maybe they're just doing that to help the hotel & restaurant & other local businesses? LOL nt

[spanone]

2. i bet they get a ringer to appear on the 21st...like an elvis impersonater

[redwitch]

5. LOL

That is too funny! "The King" returns!

[SidDithers]

69. That would be hilarious...

more where that came from here: http://mattstone.blogs.com/photos/elvis_jesus_pictures/index.html
some, you gotta see to believe

Sid

[asjr]

9. Those billboards just might scare tourists away.

I wonder what kind of deal price-wise they got.

[katnapped]

3. Again, have to ask...

Do we then get their stuff?

[A Simple Game]

71. Don't know for sure, but

I will try to get the brother in law to trade up for a new car in April.

[Turbineguy]

4. Please buy that t-shirt now

so we can blow the money before May 21st!

[spanone]

6. i suspect he will be staying at the opryland hotel....the jesus suite

[Radical Activist]

46. They'll be funny as hell after May 21st.

I can't wait to hear their excuse for why it doesn't happen.

[RKP5637]

7. And what will they say on May 22, 2011 like the freaks usually say, oh a minor

miscalculation, or god works in mysterious ways, or there were not enough believers, or we are just too sinful ... some babble will be issued from God, Inc.

[redwitch]

32. I hope they'll say Happy Anniversary.

29 years it will be.

[Pab Sungenis]

8. I love how these fundies have never read their Bible.

"But of that day and hour knoweth no , no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." Mt 24:36

"Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." Mt 25:13

"The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The oracles they gave you were false and misleading." Lam 2:14

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing,but underneath are ravenous wolves" Mt. 7-15

[awoke_in_2003]

66. more atheists have read that book of fiction...

then fundies.

[BurtWorm]

10. May it be true. May Jesus come take them and keep them forever.

Then at least we'll be rid of that bunch of loonies.

[Myrina]

11. Please ? And let the Rapture take all the nutbags into another dimension ...

... so we can get serious about fixing all the shit that they broke in this country?

[lpbk2713]

12. LOL ... first thing I thought of was Spencer Tracy.

"Is that AM or PM?"


:rofl:

[Better Believe It]

13. Thanks for the info! I'll put that down on my new calender.

[Harry Monroe]

16. Gregorian, Julian, Muslim or Jewish calender?

Just like the millenium, this is bullshit as well. Depends on how you reckon the passage of time and where your starting point is.

[Kalyke]

21. Mayan.

:hi:

[Harry Monroe]

47. If you're using the Mayan calender than you're banking on Sarah Palin winning in 2012!!

We're toast. No thanks, I'll stick to the regular Gregorian calender. As far as I know, there are no predictions for the end of the world using that one!!

[Better Believe It]

34. I don't know but it has a drawing of a red person with horns and carrying a pitchfork on the cover

[onehandle]

14. No, it's May 22, 2011.

You heard it here first.

My cat says it's May 23, 2011, but what does he know.

[Harry Monroe]

15. They wouldn't know if Jesus returned even if he came up and bit them in the ass

If Jesus were to really return to earth, he'd be derided on Fox News as some liberal left wing do-gooder, O'Lilely and Limpballs would bash him. I'm betting he already came back, looked around and said, "fuck it, these people are not worth saving".

[tanyev]

17. I've been keeping an eye on a website that predicted the Rapture would happen by the end of November

Looks like they've now weaseled that out to Fall 2010--definitely by Dec. 21, 2010. Have to check in on them next month.

Here's the link if you're interested. Steel yourself before you go in.

http://home.flash.net/~evt/rapture.htm

[rurallib]

22. Thanks - I tried to watch their video, but didn't because of the commercial

they had a fucking commercial on their videos - WTF?
Doesn't Gawd just run their machinery for free?

[Harry Monroe]

18. Ooh, Ooh!! I call dibs on all their stuff!!!!

[Stevenmarc]

27. Sure if you're looking for Bibles, Guns and anything covered in Mossy Oak camo

[HopeHoops]

19. Oh bullshit. He's at the 7-11 right now with Elvis, Michael Jackson and bin Laden.

They're always hanging out there.

[spanone]

20. 'awful for everyone else' what kind of God do these people pray to?

[JoePhilly]

30. Their God is like a very angry, very jealous girlfriend.

"Worship me!! Worship me!! Worship me!!"

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Come on guys, we've got to come up with a plan to use this and make ourselves rich!

[hobbit709]

24. If I had the money

I'd buy about 1000 inflatable dolls and fill them with helium, then release them near where they were waiting for the rapture.

[Rebubula]

28. OK...

..THAT would be awesome to watch.

Epic good times...

[hobbit709]

31. Can you imagine them seeing that and start jumping up and down

And nothing happens to them. I'd pay money to see the look on their faces then.

[RKP5637]

39. LOL !!! n/t

[Ian David]

25. NOW it makes sense...

[Dr.Phool]

26. Put one of those American Atheist "Reason"billboards next to it!

[pinboy3niner]

52. Put this billboard next to it:

[ck4829]

29. It would be awesome if some guy named Jesus decided to visit Nashville that day.

[pipi_k]

37. Jesus just left Chicago.... n/t

[Harry Monroe]

48. "And he's bound for New Orleans"!!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

41. Even more awesome, he would likely be Mexican. -nt

[Harry Monroe]

49. Well then that's Jesus, pronunced "Hay-sus"!!

I want them to get it right!!

[Harry Monroe]

51. "Hay-soos"

Just to make sure these idiots pronounce their Mexican savior's name correctly!!

[guitar man]

33. Good

By then I'll definetly need a new car, and a bigger house wouldn't hurt either....just have to throw out all those damn Thomas Kinkade paintings :silly:

[Harry Monroe]

50. You'd have to throw out the "Velvet Elvis" and the "Dogs Playing Poker" paintings first!!

[guitar man]

65. Velvet Elvis can go

But the dogs playing poker can stay, I love those! :D

[LiberalFighter]

35. There should be a clause in all church properties that in the event

a date of rapture or other ending date is announced by the church that all properties would revert to the government.

[Rectangle]

44. to house and feed the homeless!

[pipi_k]

36. Yeah, I saw that same thing in a magazine recently...went to the

website and read all the "facts" and figures and justification as to why the Rapture will happen on that day...which actually isn't the actual DAY of the Rapture, but only the beginning...according to the site.

Anyway, the twisted rationalizations are just incredible...they basically take 2 + 2 and make it equal 7.

[TlalocW]

38. Predictions like this is where the 7th Day Adventists came from

In the 1800s, the minister for the church that would spawn 7th Dayers predicted the exact day for the end of the world. On that day his followers gathered to wait for their ascension - as the day approached, fields were left untended, and on the day some climbed trees so they could be ahead of the others, the upper class stood away from the lower class members so they wouldn't ascend so close to the riff-raff, people strapped themselves to trunks filled with their favorite possessions, and women opened up parasols to help the divine force lift them up. Nothing happened so the minister went back to the Bible and his calculations, realized he had made a math error and gave out a new date where the same scene played out.

Not nice to know that some things never change.

TlalocW

[AndrewP]

40. Jesus will be returning in May 2011. Jesus Chavez

[tavalon]

42. Jesus is coming!

Look busy!

[hatrack]

43. Oh, man, and it's on a Sunday!

Why can't Jesus return when I'm at work, rather than when I'm going to have gardening to do?

Freakin' rude, if you ask me!

[Cal Carpenter]

67. Well, won't it be raining hellfire and white horses and whatnot?

You probably won't want to work in the garden in those conditions anyway :shrug:

[hatrack]

68. No worries about a late frost, though, given the scenario you describe!

:toast:

[truebrit71]

45. But because he has no papers he is arrested as an illegal, shipped to Gitmo and waterboarded...

....whereupon He says, "why does this keep happening to me? Sod this for a bowl of cherries" and then buggers off..

[Fly by night]

53. ... and, boy howdy, will he be pissed!!

Maybe He'll decide to return the stewardship of our planet to the dolphins and whales, where it belongs.

BTW, if you've never spent time in a theocratic country, come visit Tennessee. The Rapture can't come quickly enough for the nut-jobs who have (s)elected themselves to run our state.

[Brickbat]

55. Sometimes I wish he would, just so people would see him look around and go, "Man, did you people

totally miss the point, or what?"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

54. Wow! Cool!

That's my birthday!

[Mimosa]

56. I hope so. We need HELP! n/t

[LynneSin]

57. Actually I've seen signs here in Delaware too

Well at least I'll get to celebrate my next birthday right before everything implodes.

[Initech]

58. If those bumper stickers are accurate, there'll be plenty of free cars to go around!

[pinboy3niner]

59. Durn feds! They don't do ANYTHING about border security! nt

[Arugula Latte]

60. OMG ... The wording ... "Jesus is Coming Again"

Wow, seriously, Family Radio? You don't hear the *bow chicka bow bow* porn music playing in the background when you see that sentence?

[joeybee12]

61. return? return what? The Christmas presents he doesn't like? He better

do that sooner because most stores only give you 90 days.

[AnArmyVeteran]

62. He would kick every republican's asses. And every Christian conservative too.

No one can be a practicing Christian and a conservative at the same time. They are opposites.

[SidDithers]

70. But do they llike sugar on their porridge?...nt

Sid

[AnArmyVeteran]

63. He would kick every republican's asses. And every Christian conservative too.

No one can be a practicing Christian and a conservative at the same time. They are opposites.

[awoke_in_2003]

64. if he is going to do it...

I wish he would hurry the fuck up about it and get rid of these crazy "rapture ready" people.

[pipi_k]

72. Well, one thing Jesus had better hope for if he's gonna come back...

that he doesn't end up on the streets of New York City...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f-vknXkb74&feature=related

[nadinbrzezinski]

73. Darts will have to move the end of the world party from 2012

What is one to do? I know plan both and go on with life...