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An "Invisible" Rapture? Clever Girl
Xehalus
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'cause May 21st is...
1844 - William Miller predicted Christ would return between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture, to October 22, 1844. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in a Great Disappointment. Miller's theology gave rise to the Advent movement. The Baha'is believe that Christ did return as Miller predicted in 1844, with the advent of The Báb, and numerous Miller-like prophetic predictions from many religions are given in William Sears book, Thief in The Night.
1914, 1918, 1925, 1942 - Dates set for the end by the Jehovah's Witnesses
1981 - Chuck Smith predicted that Jesus would probably return by 1981.
There is a '1983' story from Bavaria of a bearded man being given a lift by a Women, then telling her he was the angel Gabriel and the world would end on the 31st of October next year.
1988 - Publication of 88 Reasons why the Rapture is in 1988, by Edgar C. Whisenant.
1989 - Publication of The final shout: Rapture report 1989, by Edgar Whisenant. More predictions by this author appeared for 1992, 1995, and other years.
1992 - Korean group "Mission for the Coming Days" predicted October 28, 1992 as the date for the rapture.
1993 - Seven years before the year 2000. The rapture would have to start to allow for seven years of the Tribulation before the Return in 2000. Multiple predictions.
1994 - Pastor John Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted June 9, 1994. Radio evangelist Harold Camping predicted September 6, 1994.
2011 - Harold Camping's revised prediction has May 21, 2011 as the date of the rapture.
2060 - Sir Isaac Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060.
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Disclaimer: I am in no way attempting to insult or decertify religion and/or faith on any practical level. Yes, it has brought misery and suffering to many, but it has also brought peace, love, and support to many more. My only point is that it should not be used as a gimmick to scare people into helping false prophets build their megachurches and xenophobic communities. Thank you, for reading.
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Maybe lighting a cigarette while doing so.
i wonder what they'll be doing on the 22nd
place is brimming with sinners
Gonna be awesome when all the killjoys are gone!
I'll be right here
I'm glad I'm not with that church anymore.
Tube is the only one of us that gets saved
We look up at him dumbstruck as he ascends to heaven while simultaneously flipping us all off while the world ends around us
Steam
You should all feel terrible about that.
does the bible really forbid drug use?
man ain't no commandment against getting super baked
straight to hell with me
Yes
Because I completely trust a Pope who looks like the fucking evil Emperor from Star Wars to warn me about the end times
He knows exactly when the world will end, but he will never announce it
It's all part of his plan
Steam
Kick down their door while holding a giant looting sack
"Sorry, thought you'd be gone by now"
If the Rapture comes, you D.C. folk can all come hang out with me.
seriously there are some guidelines in there but it's not expressly forbidden
* unless you really, really have to, and even then only if you say you're sorry afterwards
who would figure god has a statute of limitations
Bring it on, bitches.
If you take the Bible all that seriously at all, then everything you eat was at one point in time actually part of a person, zombies exist, and we all descend from Adam and Eve, which would mean that we're all related and that every single chick you banged in high school was effectively a convoluted case of incest.
I kinda wish that last part (we are all related) was actually true, though, because there are some pretty cool people that I want to be related to.
Also, I hope when the end does finally occur, I hope it's like the movies, and all the people who believed the rapture was actually coming are all left behind, because they're crazed idiots and even God don't want none of that.
Steam
we are all related, if you want to get super pedantic about it
right?
Wish granted
not even that pedantic
there was a massive population bottleneck in recent human history (70k years ago), lowering the species as low as 1000 breeding pairs
Well there is also the thing where it says nobody is supposed to know when it is going to happen and trying to actually predict a date from the incredibly bastardized version we have today is one of the sillier things a person could do.
But it gives the nutjobs something to do!
Steam
So does Economics.