Apocolapse Now

Apparently, when Harold Camping said there was no chance that the Rapture wouldn't happen on May 21st, what be really meant was that May 21st was the judgment day, with Hell, Fire, Brimstone and all that crap happening around October of this year.  So we still get Father's Day, the Fourth of July and even Labor Day.  Sorry kids, no trick or treat this year though.

To be honest, when I read about the "Rapture Wine" he was sending to his flock (see,: "Those who paid him for it."),  I had a feeling it was going to be a Guyana-type KoolAid concoction that would have raptured everyone who drank it on the spot.  Fortunately, that wasn't the case; and mass suicides haven't been reported.  But his followers are dumbfounded. These sad sacks seriously can't understand why it didn't happen.  I read about one guy who let his credit card bills pile up, because he figured the rapture would make everything OK.  Apparently, for some of the "Faithful", accepting Jesus and the Gospel According the Profit Camping gave them the right be financially irresponsible.

Are Camping and Jesus going to replace the college funds that were cleaned out to make billboards? Now I'm not a Christian, and I don't pretend to know Jesus.  But from what I know of his teachings, I don't think he'd have been to happy with Harold.  In fact, I wonder.  What if Old Man Rapture had been right, and the whole thing went down as planned on May 21st.  Do you really think that people who borrowed money with no intent of repaying it are the kinds of people Jesus would want to beam up with him?  Again, I don't know Jesus, but as a fellow member of the same tribe he once belonged to, we generally frown on that practice.

The truly sad part will be seeing how many sheeple from his flock stay faithful, despite the obvious signs that ol' Harold is about as believable as Mel Gibson trying to convince Hollywood that he's not Anti-Semitic.  Who really needs to be saved here, anyway?