I see Tommy and Billy. Susie and Mary. Tina and Johnny. Oh, and there�s Jimmy and Debbie and Cathy, too! Hmm... Looks like we�re all still here. Hallelujah! Praise the merciful lord who has found it in his heart to grant us more time to become �good� Christians. Not just any old Christians, mind you, but the good kind.
Okay, so the world didn�t end. Now what? Is Harold Camping going to predict another �the-world-is-ending-so-become-a-good-Christian-and-repent-to-save-your-soul� date? Hasn�t he done this before? (The world was supposed to end in 1994.) When will he get it right? And why aren�t his predictions coming to pass? Is he mistaken? Confused? Lying? A false prophet? One of the not-so-good Christians?
And what happens to people who gave up their life�s savings thinking that they wouldn�t need them? Folks who quit their jobs? Didn�t save up for college tuition for their kids? Quit living? Walked away from everything? Said good-bye to everyone?
Do they go back to work? Rebuild their lives? Do they continue to live on the sidelines while they wait for the world to end next time? Again. Or do they lose their faith and go on to live full and prosperous �not-so-good� Christian lives?
Should I care? I don�t know, probably. Do I? No, not really. Okay, maybe just a little (mostly the really vulnerable people). Still. Individuals who have chosen to follow Harold Camping, and sound the holy trumpet alongside him, have done so of their own free will (or so I hope). And now that the world hasn�t ended and they�re forced to go on like the rest of us, they�ll just have to go back to whatever life awaits them. Good or bad. Richer or poorer. Job or no job. Savings or no savings. And how they choose to live from now on is entirely their business � and their problem.
I sound a little heartless but that�s because I personally think that this group�s mentality stinks from here to high heaven. The very idea that God would only choose to save �true believers� (good Christians) irritates the bejesus out of me. I do not for one moment believe that God divides us into groups. Good Christians. Bad Christians. Non Christians. True Believers. Non-believers. And I certainly don�t believe that God concentrates only on Christians when he never introduced any type of organized religion to begin with. They�re all created by man, so it would be pretty arrogant of anyone to believe that their �man-made� religion is the one that is favoured. I mean really, people, get off your holy high horse. If God decides to beam people up to heaven, they�ll just be good people from all walks of life, some of them atheists. It�s all about how you live your life, how well you�ve treated fellow human beings, not what religion you follow.
Furthermore, I don�t know why these fanatical Christians dragged the bible into this as a way of validating their (didn't happen) prediction. The Bible itself is pretty clear about Armageddon: Matthew 24:36 says, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
No one. Not even God�s son.
Except for Harold Camping, of course. He knows. Uh-huh...
So the world goes on. Looks like I�ll have to do that laundry, after all. Darn.
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