Fascinating look here, in this BBC podcast (linked below), at the history, sociology, psychology, theology and politics of fundamentalism, evangelism, millennialism & apocalyptism. See also, Michael Grosso’s, The Millennium Myth, & The Millennium Book of Prophecy by John Hogue. My own views in terms of religious philosophy, political philosophy and
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Scripturient: You’re going to die. Again.
Yeah, I know: we’re ALL going to die sooner or later. No one gets out of here alive. But that doesn’t stop people from saying the end is nearer than we expect. Right around the corner, in fact. The latest Magical Event being touted online (which event is absolutely not
Continue readingLa fin du monde, October 21. Non! Quelle surprise. Le big FAIL.
Harold Camping instructs his followers to keep quiet following his folly over the phony rapture. He’s already fucked up twice before. The first time was 1994. When will fools who follow religious nuts ever learn?
In the meantime, I’ll sit back and pour me a delicious glass of Unibroue’s incomparable ale, La Fin du Monde and celebrate a . . . → Read More: La fin du monde, October 21. Non! Quelle surprise. Le big FAIL.
Continue readingLa fin du monde, October 21. Non! Quelle surprise. Le big FAIL.
Harold Camping instructs his followers to keep quiet following his folly over the phony rapture. He’s already fucked up twice before. The first time was 1994. When will fools who follow religious nuts ever learn?In the meantime, I’ll sit back and …
Continue readingWho cares about that silly old ozone layer anyway?
Evidently not Canada.”People are gob smacked by this decision,” Thomas Duck, an atmospheric researcher at Dalhousie University, said in an interview with Postmedia News. He and his international colleagues say they’ve been told the network and a r…
Continue readingTrashy's World: A Rapture would have been just dandy for some…
Non Sequitur rox.
And I have to wonder if there weren’t more than a few soft-minded folks out there who were hoping that the dire prediction would be borne true for precisely reasons such as this! There are lots of people going through some hard times in the U S of A right now and desperation […]
Death By Trolley: The world ended yesterday
Or not. Nothing happened. What a shock. No quakes, no Rapture, no nothing. The closest we came were some day-early Victoria Day fireworks in Canada and some American atheist jokesters laying full clothing outfits out on the street and sending off helium-filled inflatable plastic bodies into the sky. On this site, a non-scientific poll was […]
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Less than a week until nothing out of the ordinary happens. Poll: How will Rapturites react?
It is no longer news that a small group of devout American Christians are eagerly awaiting this coming Saturday, May 21st, which they believe will see the Rapture of all spiritually and morally upstanding Christians into Heaven, leaving the rest of us behind. As described on their website, WeCanKnow.Com, this group also believes that on […]
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