I have no special plans today but at least it’s not supposed to rain. Heard something or other about the rapture happening today so I found a partial list here with a sampling of 23 times the world was supposed to end but as we know didn’t.
Surprisingly four are predictions from the same group, The Millerites in the early 1800’s kept reworking and fine tuning the date, however perhaps to their disappointment or even relief the end failed to happen. They ultimately disbanded many becoming Seventh Day Adventists.
In Czarist Russia 1900 one horribly aggressive group, The Brothers and Sisters of the Red Death believing the end was near had 100 members sacrifice themselves before authorities intervened. This group also forbade marriage but allowed intercourse if the sinners immediately suffocated themselves with a large red cushion.
Here is one more recent example that apparently had no serious consequences or did it?
OCTOBER 23, 1976—GEORGE KING One day in 1954, taxi driver George King was drying dishes in his Maida Vale flat in London when he suddenly received a message from Mars that the world would end twenty-two years hence.
Fortunately, King and his followers, organized as the Aetherius Society, were able to avert the catastrophe by concentrating 700 hours of prayer energy into a prayer book and releasing it in forty-eight minutes on the appointed day.
Tomorrow, expect the “Lord’s” name to be invoked vainly by and for (according to the people who are forecasting a vengeful God shower) millions of earth-ender Christianists.
These same pious and deluded Christianists, screaming Armageddon today, will take to their pews while their mentally unstable preachers take to their pulpits. Next, as predicable as a Godly rain shower in May, these wing nuts will holler and rant about God’s last minute change of heart. They will vainly speak for God and explain why S/He has plans for THEM, which trump the trumpeted Armageddon.
Don’t believe me? Note the date stamp on this comment, and I’ll be you thirty pieces of silver that, by the end of the day tomorrow, you will not be able to count the number of Christianists speaking in God’s name and explaining HIS message for giving Armageddon a rain date.
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