Harold Camping Again

Once again Harold Camping's prediction that the world would end on a given day has proved false. Anybody with half a brain could have told you that nothing would happen. Camping first predicted that the world would end and the "Rapture" would occur in 1994. Of course, it didn't. Nevertheless, undaunted, Camping then predicted that it would occur on May 21, 2011. He made it clear that he was quite certain of the date. The stupid people who believed him sold homes and businesses and moved to California to be with him when the Rapture occurred. Naturally, nothing happened. He then predicted that it would occur on October 21, 2011. That day passed like any other day.

Now I don't blame Camping. He makes millions off of this scam, even if he truly believes in his preposterous claims. But people who still believe in him have got to have brain damage. You've all heard the phrase, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Well, now the morons have been fooled three times at least. Do they still believe in Camping? Do they still believe in any of the jokers who continue to say that the world is about to end? Do they still believe that the Bible is the word of God? Do they still believe in God?

In May I offered to bet Camping $10 million that there would be no end of the world or rapture or anything else on October 21. I said that I would be willing to bet Harold that October 21 will go by like any other Fall day, like May 21, like September 1994, and that there would be no Rapture, no end of the world, no apocalypse. He probably never heard of my offer, but if he had agreed to the bet I would be rich today.

There is only one reason why Harold Camping is a false prophet. The reason is that there is no such thing as God, and any prediction based on the Book of Revelations in the Bible is pure nonsense. There is a large number of phony prophets out there claiming that the world is about to come to an end. I have heard Hal Lindsey, Jack Van Impe, Tim LaHaye and others who claim to believe that we are approaching the apocalypse. They base their whole argument on the wording of the Book of Revelations. None of them seems able to pierce the veil of idiocy surrounding that book and the absurdity surrounding all predictions based on the Bible.

The Judeo-Christian Bible is not a book of history. It is not a book of fact. Virtually nothing in it is true. It is a fairy-tale, a book of myths, which, in many cases, is based on more ancient myths of other ancient religions. Millions of dimwitted people base their lives on this book of myths, just as millions of Moslems base their lives on the Quran. In the absence of a real god, or of any real evidence for the existence of God, these people latch onto the one thing that they believe gives them access to the teaching of God. It is pitiful.

I wish people would read my book: "The Case Against God: A Lawyer Examines the Evidence." It is available on Kindle and can be brought-up on any device that has Kindle applications. In it I demonstrate that the Bible is merely a kind of mythological sacred scripture. I show that Moses was nothing more than a mythical figure, that the Exodus never happened, and that Jesus of Nazareth was nothing more than a Jewish holy man who wanted to share certain ideas about Judaism based on the teachings of the Pharisees. In no way did he want to start a new religion naming himself as the Son of God. The poor misguided millions of sheep who went on to create and follow a church based on this misinterpretation of his teaching are always prey to the seduction of cults, sects, televangelists, rogues, and phonies of every kind.

The world is not about to end. We are not about to face the apocalypse or experience the Rapture. During the Cuban Missle Crisis I thought we might face a thermonuclear holocaust, but I no longer worry about that. Perhaps terrorists will get hold of a nuclear bomb and bomb a big city in America, or Israel and Iran will exchange nuclear bombs, but I doubt that these things will mean the end of the world. No, the world will carry on for a long time to come and there is no God to change that. Stupid, or dishonest, or clever men have always predicted the imminent end of the world. It is nothing new. I just hope that the obvious falsity of Harold Camping's predictions will make people use their heads a little more and stop believeing in these absurd myths.