The end of the world

[Doubting Thomas]

I've just heard on news on TV that the preacher who said about this end of the world on 21st may has earned a lot of money from this story so far. So it seems that it was a good reason he preached that.

Funny how he'd need money right at the end of the world.

It seems like Harold Camping forgot about the issue with time zones there Jax.

I thought he said that the earthquakes would start at 6PM at the International Date Line, then would continue around the world right at 6PM in each local time zone? Or maybe some of his followers just made that part up.

[Minimalist]

That is what the douchebag said, CP.

Oddly, most xtians I know think he's certifiable!

[Cinjin]

I'm curios, when the hour will come (i.e. 5:00 PM), if people would start counting "10, 9, 8, 7, ..." as they do when the new year comes )

That would be so awesome.....

*shouting* ...4, 3, 2, 1, ........ ... silence .... more silence .... ... awkward people with red faces .... more silence ...


*than comedic sound - "WAU - Wau - wauu" can be heard*

LMFAO
that would be so awesome to see. People slowly filing out of the house, red-faced and not saying a fucking word ... except for the guy sobbing cause he quit his job 2 weeks earlier and now he's destitute.

awesome!

[Jaysyn]

It's easy: there are thousands (or more, in a country I mean) of pastors and priests and bishops and archbishops, and I don't know the protestant hierarchy, which should have followed. Anyway, all they do is preach and receive money. Question: from where do they receive money? They don't have separate job, to earn their money from there. Answer: The priests have been paid by the state since antiquity, and they are still paid now (along with any religious leader of any christian denomination, islamic denomination, jewish denomination, etc. that is accepted as "official religion", i.e. religion recognized by the state). As you have teachers being paid by the state to is teach, the same way you have preachers being paid by the state to preach. And it is very probable that the maintenance of the religious buildings (i.e. churches, mosques, etc.) to be paid by the state as well.

Uh, no they aren't. At least not in the US. Non-catholic preachers, reverends, etc get paid a stipend by their church. The church is paid by it's members & probably any charities they are operating. I imagine Catholics get paid by the Vatican along with tithes from their congregants.

The only thing that I am aware of that churches "get" from the government is tax breaks. The average preacher's salary in the US isn't that much considering the college years involved.

Most of the preachers & reverends I know personally do have day jobs. One of said reverends has been my mechanic for the past 13 years.

Did you just make that earlier information up or something? I'm thinking that the ACLU would be in a state or local government's ass knee-deep if they were literally paying a religion's operating costs.

[chatpilot]

Honestly I am surprised that the church isn't capitalizing on this momentous event. I can see the commercials now on cable: The Return of Jesus Christ on May 21st. See it live! Only on pay per view! $59.95 some taxes and fees may apply.

[Manowar]

The local papers are covering this Did you know Camping and his followers have some 2200 billboards around the country? Sunday is gonna be a great day Camping might have to leave the country. When William Miller predicted the end of the Earth and did not happen people were so sad that they cried into the morning. Many of his followers abandoned their beliefs after that, hopefully this will be the final nail in Camping's coffin and his followers will just go away

Manowar

[Doubting Thomas]

We can only hope. But after studying past "prophets" who predicted the end of the world, I can guarantee that at least a few people will still follow him.

I really wish there were a Family Radio station nearby so I could listen to the excuses as to why the rapture didn't happen. Maybe they're online.

*edit* Oh wait, WYFR on shortwave is one of their stations. I'll have to give them a listen. I think I'll record it to see if they give a countdown to the rapture, and then to see what they say after nothing happens.

[reverendjeremiah]

Tonight is the very last friday night on earth..may as well party and let your freak flag fly

[Anomalocaris]

How Christianity has survived and indeed thrived for 2000 years, given that Jesus was expected to come back during the lifetimes of the authors of the New Testament is a huge mystery.

Sort of argues against evolution, doesn't it. The continuation of christianity shows that even the most unfit survives. Time to give the flagging efforts of natural selection a artificial helping hand, I say.

[Doubting Thomas]

LMFAO
that would be so awesome to see. People slowly filing out of the house, red-faced and not saying a fucking word ... except for the guy sobbing cause he quit his job 2 weeks earlier and now he's destitute.

Either that, or they then start lining up to get a cup of Kool Aid.

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I imagine Catholics get paid by the Vatican along with tithes from their congregants.

I think Catholic priests get paid by the diocese to which they belong. Seems like all the money that's collected in the offerings goes to the diocese, and then is spent according to need. I could be wrong, though. I was raised Catholic but never was schooled on the inner workings of the church.