For the most part, I find the religious whackadoodles who are convinced that the world is going to end tomorrow (remember, kids! May 21! Save the date!) to be entertaining, and I shed not a tear for their messed-up lives and their crushed souls come Sunday. But what *does* disturb me is that, unfortunately, some of these blithering idiots somehow managed to figure out how to breed, and their offspring are suffering the consequences of their idiocy.
Kids hope to attend party — but parents say world’s going to end
Where we read that the three Haddad kids have parents who have squandered the college fund and have told ’em that they aren’t getting into Heaven. While the latter is almost certainly true, it’s at the very least poor form to tell your kids that while you are going to Heaven, they aren’t. And while, libertarian as I am, a person has the right to blow their savings on any damnfool thing they like… if you’ve taken it upon yourself to make a family, you now have responsibilities that go beyond your selfish and incomprehensible desires to see the world end.
There is an obvious upside to this whole thing. As the ads say… “The Bible guarantees it!” So when it doesn;t happen, the Bible’s “guarantee” is shown to be bullcrap. And if the Bible can’t be trusted on a matter as important as the end of the world, then it can’t be trusted on the whole.
Granted, this is not especially valid logic. The Bible does *not* say that the world is going to end at 6PM on May 21, 2011; some guy pulled some numbers out of his backside and claims that the Bible supports him… when it doesn’t. Nevertheless, the forthcoming utter failure of the prediction will sow further distrust in the Bible. And perhaps, just perhaps, some of that distrust will lead to people thinking for themselves and applying a bit of skepticism where they once relied upon blind faith. Huzzah!
And on that note, I highly recommend:
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Thanks for alerting me to the fact that Season 8 of Bullshit is available on DVD… it had somehow escaped my notice. I bought it through your link.
Alas, I suspect that if the failure of this prediction leads people to question the Bible, they won’t start thinking for themselves, they’ll just start following an even less rational faith. Islam perhaps:-(.
At least the Christian Millenarians aren’t planning on making it happen themselves.
– the bible says no man knows the day or the hour, clear scripture contradicting this false prophecy.
– he’s made the same prediction before and been wrong.
– I don’t believe the messages in the bible are encrypted in anything resembling the complex computational numerology described as predicting the date.
Seems to me that if the world is going to end, the parents are in a position to say “Yes” to damn near anything. If it’s just not gonna happen, why not tell the kids it’s acceptable? I’d do that for my two.