To the judgment day prophets
With all the people out there who are promoting the second coming of jesus on May 21st, that is only on Saturday next week (as I write this), I decided to ask some of the promoters of this story what they are going to do should it not actually happen. Here are three of the enquiries that I made and the results.
I sent an email to the these email addresses:
familyradio@familyradio.org
with the following message:
Please make sure that you spend as much money on your apology as you do with the promotion of this May 21 rubbish!
The world will be watching…… so if Jesus doesn’t come and get you, as you so fervently hope that he will….. you better be sure that the rest of us will!
The destruction of the lives of gullible people will be entirely your responsibility, and I hope that we will be seeing lots of your christian charity at work to help them when all this rubbish is shown up to be just that…… total rubbish.
They have not responded.
Family Radio is, of course, the outfit set up by harold camping, the originator of all this lunacy about may 21, 2011 being the day of the second coming of their god to earth to clean up things and take them, the faithful followers, off to heaven and happily barbecue the rest of us.
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I also sent a message to:
This is the nutty website made for the even nuttier people who want to send an email message to their “unsaved” friends and relatives after they have been taken up into the clouds to be with jesus at the rapture.
My email text:
I guess you must be thrilled that the rapture is about to happen on May 21.
Perhaps your website had got an extra upsurge in traffic? That feels very satisfying?
Well, I do hope that some day, you will be able to finally use your own intelligence, and stop blindly believing the total rubbish that you obviously so fervently believe right now.
If what you preach were true, then you (I presume that you think that you will be among the “saved”), and all the other “christians”, who profess to follow the commandment to love their neighbor as themselves, will happily watch down from heaven while their neighbors fry in hell and perpetual torment.
Don’t you see the obvious contradiction? Christians so look forward to the day when they can feel so smug about being right while they watch the unbelievers get their just reward of eternal hell fire.
Try to step back for a few minutes, and see how totally absurd this whole rapture thing is, please.
Geoff
I have not received a response. Guess they think that I am better to be burned up while they (the righteous) get to watch from their armchairs in the clouds and receiving their “Well done thou good and faithful servant” message from jesus. And they can all feel so smug and wag their tails like a trained dog as it gobbles down a meaty-bite treat for obeying the command to roll over.
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But I have saved the best for last…..
Everyone’s friend, and sincere do gooders at Ebiblefellowship made the wonderful offer of sending out a free bible to anyone who wanted to apply for one. This offered on their site http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/free_bible/. This site is impressive, translated into many languages, and right now, it is all about judgment day on May 21, as I write this, 7 days remaining. (I better get this post up really fast). But as you can see, it now says that they cannot send out bibles because the shipping time would mean that you would not get it in time. This has been up for more than a week already (more than two weeks from judgment day), and I wondered about that since it would not take that long for me to receive the shipment and maybe being the recipient of their wonderful christian gesture and jesus inspired gift of a free bible might well have saved me.
But, if you go here – http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/donate/ there still seems to be time for them to receive your donation. PayPal and Credit cards are accepted, and you can even send them a check! They have not put a notice on there saying to keep your money as we would not have time to receive it, much less spend the money. I guess that they have a super fast clearance time on checks but a super slow delivery system for the free bibles?
My email text to them to express my disappointment:
I really wanted a bible, and, first, find it hard to get one where I live and work, and my allowance does not leave me any spare money. This is not a request for a free bible, as I know that you have said that it would not be honored, but I never expected that it would be anyway from you under any circumstances.
I had hoped that you would be able to send me one, just to show that you are not like all the other slick bible salesmen, even though the time is so short between now and May 21, the end of the world as we know it at the hand of god.
Too bad that you now say that you won’t send me one, but I find it very interesting that you are still accepting donations from this site. How come you cannot send a bible but you still want the money?
Sorry, but this sounds like just another money grabbing cult. I hope that is not too strong?
I do look forward to reading your site on the days after May 21 when nothing happens!
They did indeed respond with the following:
It wont get there in enough time. It’s as plain and simple as that.
You may feel this is all the proof you need, to decide not to trust in May 21, 2011 as Judgment Day. However, the Bible guarantees it, so no matter what your opinion of us is, in relation to not being able to receive a Bible, it has no effect on God’s truth. Judgment Day WILL come. In less than two weeks.
May God bless you,
The EBF Response Team
So, god bless you, but too bad for you, we are not even going to try to get a bible to you, but do keep those donations coming in.
And, they won’t commit on what they would do if/when jesus failed to turn up next saturday. I guess when they say that the bible guarantees it, they really do believe this nonsense. Stood up again by jesus just does not seem to enter their thinking.
I did send another mail with the following, to which, predictably, they have not responsed.
Hmmm, well, deliveries take about 5 business days, and maybe receiving a bible and reading it for myself just might have been enough to have saved me. Shame that you declined to honor the promise and blame the imminent return of jesus.
I wonder what he will say to you about your excuse if/when you are chatting with him on saturday week?
I am still waiting on their response. Again, looks like the christians must think that I am not worth the time, and that it will be much more fun to sit in their armchairs in the clouds with jesus and watch me get burned up. Love thy neighbor and love thy enemy, but screw him if he is not a beliver coz we don’t have time. We are so excited that jesus is about to come and take us off to heaven, and leave the shmucks like you behind – And we are glad that you are going to be left behind because you would only spoil the heaven party anyway.
Again, I am amazed at the people who live in the 21st century who prefer to align their thinking with the primitive tribes of the middle east who lived in a flat earth society and were ignorant about just about everything. However, I guess that when these believers get sick, they will still go to their modern day doctor and then take their prescription drugs invented by modern science to make themselves well again. And then, of course, give the credit for the cure to almighty god.
Final comment – Thaks for the offer, but you can keep your salvation. I am not interested in going off to eternally praise and worship the great leader who commands that you simultaneously love and fear him. A celestial North Korea that I don’t want to spend eternity in. As opposed to your vengful dictator, the alternative sounds like a better deal anyway – except that ALL of it is just fantasyland.
