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panzerfaust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-11 07:13 AM
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Durn. You bastards are still here.

So, what will Reverend Harold Camping have to say THIS time, now that the world has, once again, not ended? Assuming, of course, that he is still here too and has not been raptured.

Christian eschatology has been wrong (every time) verily since Jesus first said "...Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come..." Mark 9:1 about two thousand years ago.



The resulting Christian myth of the "Wandering Jew" (as even in the Dark Ages - when Christianity Ruled supreme - it was obvious that something was not quite right, since living in a shit-filled village oppressed by a thieving Christian Nobility did not seem all that God-Kingdom-like) has few supporters today, not even amongst the more deranged Christians.

Why is not the obvious conclusion drawn: ...

...There is a larger universe,
than that imagined by a primitive desert tribe?



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Sam Hain Donating Member (46 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-11 07:18 AM
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1. Recommend for title alone!
:rofl:
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-11 07:21 AM
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2. i like this one.
Edited on Sat Oct-22-11 07:22 AM by hobbit709
If you look at the upper left corner, it appears the Universe is giving us the finger.
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HillWilliam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-11 08:02 AM
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3. Aw, dammit!
Gypped out of another Post-Rapture Looting.
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Kurmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-11 12:52 PM
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4. Ahh, using those in error to justify your prejudice. Very convenient.
You do realize that Christ said those words while speaking to 5000 some people.
Did you do a head count? Oh that's right, you weren't there.
BTW, death in Christian "eschatology" is generally meant when you die unrepentant, not simply when the body no longer functions.
So if some of those 5000 didn't die until after The Resurrection and kept the faith, well, there ya go!
Don't confuse seeing the "Kingdom of God" with either Judgement Day or Armageddon, the terms are not interchangeable.
Harold Camping has been obviously wrong for a long time. Bashing Christian faith for something Harold says is extremely disingenuous.
That is especially so when Christ said,"“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

Yes, even Christ said He did not KNOW when that day would be. All the pretty pictures you post with your cursing, prejudice and spite won't change that. Do try to learn to converse with people you disagree with and not call them names. That's what the grown ups do.
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