We need to pray for Harold Camping and his followers.

As you may have noticed, the world did NOT end Saturday night.  And, for the most part, I think people are pretty okay with that.  I agree with the mentality of, "Even so, come now Lord Jesus," but that doesn't mean I'm in a hurry to leave this world.  There's still a good bit I would like to do, and I'm not disappointed that I'll have a little bit more time to do it in.

But there are a lot of people who are very, very disappointed.  Most notably, those poor misguided souls who truly believed the Rapture was going to roll around at 6:00 Saturday night.  Many of Harold Camping's (the May 21st Doomsday predictor) followers spend through their savings, racked up credit card debt, and moved their families across the country to spread the message of Jesus's immediate return.  Unfortunately, their faith was misplaced, and they were left broken and disillusioned.

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Is the world ending...now?

Yesterday I wrote about my new favorite, love-to-hate-em, religious fringe group, Project Caravan, who are saying May 21st of this year is Judgment Day.  (Sorry Quiverfullers, you've been bumped off the top of my list.  Rest assured, I still think you're completely insane, too.)

As I promised in yesterday's post, today I want to take a little time to catalogue many (though nowhere near all) the times someone got a big head and thought they personally knew when the end of the world is coming.  Considering I'm sitting here with such luxuries as civilization and internet (as opposed to digging locusts out of my boils while accidentally stepping on all the frogs hopping around), they were obviously incorrect.

Without further ado, 8PP presents...

Times the World was Supposed to End

(and Totally Didn't)

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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine...

Some of you have probably heard about that crazy-as-Lindsay-Lohan-at-a-wine-tasting group that's predicting the world's going to end in a couple of months, May 21st, to be exact.  They call themselves "Project Caravan", and travel the country warning people to get saved like, ASAP.  Not, "Accept Jesus because he died for your sins and can change your life entirely for the better."  It's, "Get saved now, because the Tribulation starts in a few weeks."

(If you need further evidence that they're insane, check out their website and logo.  It's a stick figure leaning his head out of what looks like a bouncey house, with a cartoon bubble warning, "Get ready to be judged!"  Hey buddy, I'm a liberal, feminist, Christian mom living in the South.  I get judged every day.)

I have a major issue with any sort of evangelical group that does nothing to help people, but just goes around selling fire insurance (i.e. "get saved just in case so you don't go to hell").  It especially peeves me to see these jerks preying on people's fears in a period of great national uncertainty.  Every tragedy and instance of civil unrest only strengthens their cause.  "Earthquake in Japan?  End of world!  Nuclear reactor meltdown?  Definitely end of world!  Fighting in Libya?  Well duh, we all know that unrest and political upheaval in the Middle East is a sign of the end times!  It's not like that has been happening forever."

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